Women’s Rights and Reproductive Health $1,920,000

United States

A. Strengthening Policy Analysis and Advocacy to Promote Reproductive Rights and Health

American Social Health Association: $25,000 For its HPV Prevention Project, which seeks to educate national organizations, policy makers, and the media about cervical cancer and HPV (human papilloma virus) vaccines.

The Funders Network on Population, Reproductive Health and Rights: $6,500 For general support of there core work of providing high quality member services that foster information sharing, collaboration , and community building.

The Guttmacher Institute: $35,000 For its project promoting sexual and reproductive rights in the U.S. through policy analysis and evidence-based advocacy. First installment of a two-year $70,000 grant.

Legal Momentum: $30,000 For its Immigrant Women’s Program, which strives to help immigrant women live safe and economically secure lives, so they may fulfill their dreams for themselves and their children in the United States.

National Abortion Federation (NAF): $30,000 For its State Public Policy Program, which seeks to combat onerous and unnecessary regulatory burdens on abortion providers.

National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association: $40,000 For general support of this organization, which seeks to ensure universal access to voluntary, comprehensive and culturally sensitive family planning and reproductive health services.
Second and final installment of a two-year $80,000 grant.

National Health Law Program, Inc. (NHeLP): $30,000 For its Initiative to Promote Reproductive Health Care, which seeks to protect and expand low-income women’s access to reproductive health services. Second and final installment of a two-year $60,000 grant.

National Partnership for Women and Families: $200,000 For its endowment campaign, designed to provide financial stability and flexibility for the organization in the years to come ($150,000 per year for five years); and for its Access to Quality Health Care and Reproductive Health and Rights Initiatives, which seek to promote access to comprehensive health services, improve the quality of health care, and protect and advance women’s reproductive rights ($50,000 per year for five years). First installment of a five-year $1,000,000 grant.

National Women’s Health Network: $30,000 For general support of this organization, which seeks to improve the health of all women by developing and promoting a critical analysis of health issues in order to influence policy and support informed consumer decision-making. First installment of a two-year $60,000 grant.

National Women’s Law Center (NWLC): $30,000 For its Reproductive Rights and Health program, which aims to advance the law and public policy so that the reproductive rights of women are both strengthened and broadened. First installment of a two-year $60,000 grant.

Planned Parenthood Federation of America: $30,000 For its project to strengthen the Office of the President, specifically through technical assistance on leadership, organizational development, and communication strategy.

Tides Center: $25,000 For its Center for Genetics and Society (CGS)’s project on Reproductive Health and Human Rights, which works to advocate for socially responsible oversight and control of new human biotechnologies.

B. Supporting New Voices and New Leaders for Reproductive Justice

Agape Foundation: $20,000 Recommended for Exhale, an organization which seeks to meet the post-abortion counseling needs of women and men – without judgment and with respect for reproductive freedom.

Choice USA: $25,000 For general support of this organization, which seeks to mobilize and provide ongoing support to the diverse, upcoming generation of pro-choice advocates. First installment of a two-year $50,000 grant.

Hampshire College: $20,000 For its Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program (CLPP), which seeks to educate and train a new generation of reproductive rights advocates, policymakers and supporters.

Law Students for Choice: $25,000 For general support of this organization, which educates, organizes and supports pro-choice law students to ensure that a new generation of lawyers will be prepared to successfully defend and expand reproductive rights.

National Advocates for Pregnant Women: $5,000 For its National Summit to Ensure the Health and Humanity of pregnant and birthing women.

National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health (NLIRH): $30,000 For general support of this organization, whose goal is to enhance the quality of life and reproductive health of Latinas nationwide through public education, coalition building, and public policy advocacy. Second and final installment of a two-year $60,000 grant.

National Network of Abortion Funds (NNAF): $30,000 For general support of this organization, which seeks to increase access to abortion and full reproductive health care for low-income women, women of color, and young women. First installment of a two-year $60,000 grant.

Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice Educational Fund (RCRC): $30,000 For general support of this organization, which aims to reach out to diverse groups of faith-based organizations and individuals of color to introduce the pro-choice and reproductive health movement to their neighborhoods and their denominational communities. Second and final installment of a two-year $60,000 grant.

SisterLove, Inc.: $25,000 For its SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective, which seeks to support the development of women of color organizations, leaders and activists to advocate for their reproductive health and rights.

Third Wave Direct Action, Inc.: $20,000 For general support of this national philanthropic organization, which engages in reproductive rights grantmaking, public education, and networking programs for young women activists between the ages of 15 and 30.

Tides Center: $55,000 a) For its Pro-Choice Public Education Project (PEP), which seeks to educate young women ages 16-25 about reproductive freedom and choice, as well as to cultivate pro-choice leadership among today's youth ($25,000); and b) for its National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum (NAPAWF), a Tides project which seeks to strengthen the capacity of Asian American women to respond to the reproductive health and social needs of their communities, through public education, coalition building, and public policy advocacy. ($30,000)

Women and Philanthropy: $500 For its Annual LEAD Award Reception, to honor Adisa Douglas of the Public Welfare Foundation.

Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellowship Program (WLPPFP): $25,000 For a women’s reproductive health and rights advocate, who will work with the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum on the reproductive rights and health needs of low-income Asian/Pacific Islander-American women.

C. Promoting Healthy Sexuality Among Adolescents

Advocates for Youth: $50,000 For general support of this organization, which seeks to promote adolescent health and prevent teenage pregnancy, too-early childbearing, and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including HIV/AIDS in the US and the developing world. (First installment of a two-year $100,000 grant)

AIDS Alliance for Children, Youth and Families: $20,000 For its Positive Youth Project, which will mobilize HIV-positive adolescents and parents to educate policy makers about the dangers of abstinence-only curricula for vulnerable youth.

Center for Adolescent Health and the Law: $20,000 For its Preserving Adolescents’ Access to Confidential Health Care project, which seeks to identify ways in which adolescents can use their insurance coverage for sexual and reproductive health services without forfeiting confidentiality protections.

Christian Community: $20,000 For its Religious Institute on Sexual Morality, Justice and Healing, which seeks to advocate for sexual health, education, and justice in America’s religious community; specifically, for the Institute to develop an Open Letter on Adolescent Sexuality.

Rutgers University Foundation: $25,000 For its National Teen-to-Teen Sexuality Education Project, which includes SEX, Etc., a newsletter written by and for teens; a discussion guide that accompanies each newsletter; a website; and student action kits. First installment of a two-year $50,000 grant.

Scenarios USA: $25,000 For its Advocacy Leadership Initiative, a new program to engage Scenarios’ young writers and alumni to empower them to become advocates and activists in the field of sexuality education.

Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS): $50,000 For general support of this organization, which seeks to promote comprehensive sexuality education, develop and disseminate information about sexuality to the public and policymakers, and partner with nongovernmental organizations here and overseas to develop better sexuality education and reproductive health policies and programs.

International

D. Improving Population, Health and Development Policies and Practice

Catholics for a Free Choice (CFFC): $30,000 For general support of this organization, which promotes morally and ethically sound population and reproductive health policies consistent with liberal religious thought within the US and internationally. First installment of a two-year $60,000 grant.

Center for Health and Social Policy: $1,000 For the Jose Barzelatto Fund, to honor the memory of international reproductive health leader Jose Barzelatto.

Center for Policy Analysis on Trade and Health (CPATH): $30,000 For its Gender and Trade Project: Access to Essential Medicines for Guatemalan Women and Families after CAFTA, which will investigate and analyze the expected effects of CAFTA on the human rights and health of women in Guatemala.

Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE): $65,000 For general support of this organization, which seeks to ensure U.S. international policies and programs promote sexual and reproductive rights, health and gender equity through effective, evidence-based policies and through increased funding for critical programs. First installment of a two-year $130,000 grant.

Center for Resource Economics / Island Press: $19,000 For its Numbers Matter: Population and Environment Reconsidered project.

Global Aids Alliance (GAA): $30,000 For general support of this organization, which seeks to galvanize the political will and finanial resources needed to slow, and ultimately stop, the global AIDS crisis, and to reduce its impact on poor countries that have been hardest hit by the pandemic. First installment of a two-year $60,000 grant.

Health Global Access Project, Inc. (Health Gap): $25,000 For general support of this organization, which works to achieve equitable access to treatment and care for people living with HIV/AIDS in developing countries.

International Center for Research on Women (ICRW): $40,000 For general support of this organization, which works to improve the lives of women in poverty, advance women's equality and human rights, and contribute to broader economic and social well-being, through research, technical assistance, capacity building, and policy communications. First installment of a two-year $80,000 grant.

Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH): $65,000 a) for the Global Campaign for Microbicides, a broad-based, international effort to build support among policymakers, opinion leaders, and the general public for increased investment in microbicides and other user-controlled HIV and STD prevention methods ($35,000); and b) for the Gender, Violence and Human Rights Program, which raises awareness among international policy makers, particularly within the health sector, regarding the impact of gender-based violence on women's sexual and reproductive health ($30,000).

Women’s EDGE Coalition: $40,000 For general support of this organization, which advocates for international economic and human rights policies that support women worldwide in ending poverty in their lives, communities and nations. Second and final installment of a two-year $80,000 grant.

Women’s Link Worldwide: $30,000 For a) general support of this organization, which promotes the uses of strategic litigation and international human rights law to further women’s rights around the world ($25,000); and b) for its project to provide gender crimes training to Iraq War Crimes Tribunal Judges ($5,000).

E. Promoting Women’s Human Rights

Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL): $20,000 For its Advancing Women’s Rights under the OAS and the Inter-American System project, which defends the rights of women in Latin America through legal work before the Inter-American System for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights.

Global Rights: Partners for Justice: $40,000 For its Amplifying Youth Voices program, which seeks to train and mentor young activists from marginalized communities in the Global South to advocate effectively at the international level and to incorporate international human rights advocacy into their domestic work.

Human Rights Watch (HRW): $45,000 For its Women's Rights Division, which works to monitor and combat violence and sex discrimination against women committed or tolerated by governments worldwide. Second and final installment of a two-year $90,000 grant.

International Rescue Committee, Inc. (IRC): $25,000 For the IRC’s Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children, which promotes reforms in US law, policy and practice to ensure meaningful human rights protections for women, children and other disadvantaged groups affected by conflict and displacement; specifically, for the Commission’s Detention and Asylum Program.

Rutgers University Foundation: $20,000 For Rutgers' Center for Women's Global Leadership, which seeks to develop and facilitate women’s leadership for women’s human rights and social justice worldwide.

Tahirih Justice Center: $30,000 For general support of this organization, which seeks to protect women and girls fleeing human rights abuses through legal and policy advocacy designed to transform policies and set precedent so that systemic change will ensure the long-term protection of women and girls from violence. Second and final installment of a two-year $60,000 grant.

University of California Hastings College of Law: $20,000 For its Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, which works to advance women's human rights by challenging an unaccountable asylum system and by advocating for gender equity in asylum processes.

Urgent Action Fund (UAF): $34,000 For general support of this organization, which promotes the human rights of women and girls through rapid response grantmaking; research and publications about women in conflict areas; and by facilitating collaborative programs to promote women's participation and perspectives in conflict prevention and resolution, peace building, and post-conflict reconstruction.

World Organization for Human Rights, USA: $30,000 For its Gender-Based Refugee and Asylum Assistance Project, which seeks to prevent the deportation of women and children facing gender-based abuse back to situations of torture, and to expand and strengthen the protections and remedies available to women and children under the Convention Against Torture (CAT).

F. Fostering Women’s Leadership and Reproductive Health at the Country and Community Level

Guatemala

Asociación de Servicios Comunitarios de Salud (ASECSA): $20,000 For its project to provide culturally-sensitive sexual and reproductive health education in 100 rural communities in Guatemala and to advocate for respect for sexual and reproductive rights.

Catholics for a Free Choice: $15,000 Recommended for support of the Istancia por la Salud y el Desarrollo de las Mujeres (Coalition for the Health and Development of Women), which educates policymakers, health officials and the general public about progressive policies related to women’s health in Guatemala.

Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA): $12,000 Recommended for support of Red de la No Violencia Contra Las Mujeres (Network to Oppose Violence against Women), a network of women’s rights organizations in Guatemala working to end all forms of violence against women.

STITCH: $22,000 For general support of this organization, which builds leadership through training in labor organizing among Central American women working in export-oriented industries, and which builds regional labor solidarity between Central American workers and workers in the US.

Outside Guatemala

American Jewish World Service (AJWS): $20,000 For its Women’s Empowerment Fund, which supports innovative community-based, female-run projects that address women’s basic needs and promote their dignity and human rights.

Hesperian Foundation: $30,000 For support of Hesperian’s Book Development Project, which will address critical health and human rights issues affecting vulnerable communities and, in particular, women and children. First installment of a two-year $60,000 grant.

Puntos de Encuentro (Puntos): $35,000 For its Central America Women’s Fund project, which mobilizes funding from individual donors inside the region, from Central Americans residing in the U.S. and from foundations to support grassroots women’s groups and initiatives, especially those of young women, designed to promote and defend women’s human rights in Central America.

San Miguel – CASA, Inc.: $50,000 For general support of this organization, which raises funds for the Centro para los Adolescentes de San Miguel de Allende (CASA); CASA trains peer promoters and develops young leaders, operates Mexico’s first nationally accredited midwifery college, and provides reproductive health services and education for the rural and urban populations of Guanajuato, Mexico. First installment of a two-year $100,000 grant.

Tides Foundation: $45,000 Recommended for support of Centro Mujeres (CM), a community health organization in Baja Californai, Sur, Mexico dedicated to fostering the empowerment and well-being of women and adolescents by mentoring young, female community leaders, advocating for policy change, providing training on health rights to service providers and government officials, and disseminating documentation and policy analysis on reproductive and sexual rights.