2006 Grants


Defending Reproductive Rights in the US

Center for Reproductive Rights

$150,000

To advance reproductive freedom as a fundamental right that federal and state governments are legally obligated to protect, respect and fulfill.


Emergency Contraception

Advocates for Youth

$50,000

To increase access to emergency contraception for young women.

Education Fund of Family Planning Advocates of New York State

$20,000

To educate pharmacists in New York about emergency contraception, and to increase its availability.

Feminist Majority Foundation

$25,000

To educate young women about emergency contraception, and to increase access to emergency contraception on college campuses.

MergerWatch

$40,000

To develop, test and disseminate innovative, state-level strategies that can increase women's access to emergency contraception.

National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health

$30,000

To increase access to and knowledge of emergency contraception and other contraceptive options in the Latina community.

National Network of Abortion Funds

$50,000

To promote pharmacy access to emergency contraception through support for small state projects.

National Women's Health Network

$35,000

To promote federal approval of emergency contraception as an over-the-counter product.

Pharmacy Access Partnership

$45,000

To promote and ensure access to emergency contraception by educating pharmacists, supporting minors' access, and providing technical assistance to a national network of state advocates.

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Improving Reproductive Health Care in the United States

Abortion Access Project

$125,000

To increase access to abortion services by training new abortion providers and developing clinical training sites for primary care physicians. First installment of a two-year, $225,000 grant.

American Civil Liberties Union Foundation

$50,000

To protect access to safe and legal abortion; to increase access to comprehensive sexuality education; to protect access to contraceptives; and to support state-based reproductive rights initiatives through affiliates.

American Civil Liberties Union Foundation

$10,000

To provide general support for the Reproductive Freedom Project, which works to protect access to comprehensive reproductive health care and rights for women in the US.

Association of Reproductive Health Professionals

$35,000

To evaluate the impact of the Medical Abortion Education Project, which educates medical students, residents and other health care providers about medical abortion.

Guttmacher Institute

$50,000

To give state-level reproductive rights and health advocates and policymakers access to the most current and accurate data, research and analysis to advance reproductive health policies at the state level. First installment of a two-year, $100,000 grant.

Institute for Reproductive Health Access

$100,000

To expand the availability of abortion and family planning services across the country, focusing on increasing abortion training for medical residents, improving low-income women's access to reproductive health services, especially for Latinas, and increasing awareness of and access to emergency contraception.

Ipas

$45,000

To expand the pool of trained abortion providers by promoting manual vacuum aspiration and medication technologies for abortion care and miscarriage management.

Medical Students for Choice

$30,000

To build and maintain a network of support and resources for medical students and residents seeking reproductive health care training; and to reform medical curricula and training to include abortion and reproductive health care as a standard part of medical education.

National Abortion Federation

$45,000

To educate and encourage medical students, residents and advanced practice clinicians to provide abortion care in their future practices; and to ensure that access to abortion care is available to underserved women.

Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center

$30,000

To improve Native American women's access to abortion and pregnancy prevention services.

Reproductive Health Access Project

$50,000

To support family medicine physicians in providing abortion care and family planning in their practices.

University of California San Francisco Center for Reproductive Health Research & Policy

$75,000

To demonstrate the role and value of advanced practice clinicians in providing early aspiration abortion, and to train California clinicians in using the technique.

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Preventing Unintended Pregnancy

Advocates for Youth

$50,000

To promote comprehensive sexuality education by educating policymakers, supporting science-based programs, and mobilizing parents and youth.

Answer

$75,000

To provide teens with medically accurate, straightforward information about sexuality that is produced by teens; and to mobilize teens in support of comprehensive sexuality education.

Healthy Teen Network

$50,000

To increase access to reproductive health services for adolescents, thereby reducing the rate of unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases.

Legal Momentum

$50,000

To explore possible legal responses to government-funded abstinence-only-until-marriage education programs.

National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association

$50,000

To hire a communications director to increase the association's capacity to protect access to birth control and family planning.

National Women's Law Center

$50,000

To expand and protect insurance coverage of contraceptives using litigation, research, policy analysis, public education, coalition building and media outreach.

National Women's Law Center

$50,000

To ensure that pharmacists and pharmacies do not deny women access to prescription contraception.

Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health

$50,000

To train physicians and other health care providers on the best practices in adolescent reproductive health care, including what services clinicians can legally and confidentially provide.

Planned Parenthood of Northern New England

$50,000

To foster more open, honest, and balanced conversations about sexuality and reproductive health among teens and their parents in Portland, Maine.

Sexuality Information & Education Council of the US (SIECUS)

$50,000

To promote comprehensive sexuality education by educating policymakers, mobilizing advocates, conducting policy analysis, and working with colleagues at the national, state and local levels.

Sexuality Information & Education Council of the US (SIECUS)

$65,000

To secure and protect access to information about reproductive health.



See 2007 Grants

See 2005 Grants

See 2004 Grants

See 2003 Grants

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Overview

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    Civic Engagement / Defense of the Public Interest