There is growing awareness that a global population of more than six billion people jeopardizes the health and well-being not only of the world's inhabitants, but also its natural resources. Efforts to reduce family size require further development and use of contraceptive technologies as well as deeper understanding of the social factors that influence personal decisions about childbearing.
The Fund believes that all women, regardless of income, must have access to quality information, health services and contraceptives to prevent or terminate unwanted pregnancies. To help ensure this access, The Fund supports organizations seeking to remove policy and fiscal constraints that governments or medical institutions place upon women's right to reproductive health care. It also supports improved and expanded training opportunities in this field for physicians and other health care specialists.
The Fund assists groups working to improve the availability of emergency contraception, a particularly promising development in pregnancy prevention. It also supports pregnancy-prevention efforts through grants in the following areas: comprehensive sexuality education, family planning in federally funded clinics, and contraceptive equity.
The Fund's Reproductive Health Program provides support only for projects in the United States. Except for selected pilot projects to plan and test strategies for broadening the availability of new reproductive technologies, The Fund does not make grants to aid contraceptive development or service delivery.
2007 Grants
Exploring Links to Environmental Health
Association of Reproductive Health Professionals |
$15,000 |
| To forge alliances between the reproductive health and advocacy and environmental health and justice communities that addresses the fundamental links between a healthy environment and healthy families and children. | |
Association of Reproductive Health Professionals |
$50,000 |
| To formalize a strategic collaboration with Commonweal to help define common ground between the reproductive and environmental health movements and build momentum in both movements to think, plan and act collaboratively. | |
Reproductive Health Technologies Project |
$50,000 |
| To expand the traditional reproductive rights framework to include a focus on healthy women and pregnancies; to help pro-choice advocates and organizations become credible advocates for policies that support healthy pregnancies and women; and to facilitate stronger working relationships between the reproductive rights and environmental health communities. |
Emergency Contraception
Advocates for Youth |
$50,000 |
| To educate young people, youth-serving professionals and policymakers about the importance of access to emergency contraception for all young people in preventing teen pregnancy. | |
Association of Reproductive Health Professionals |
$50,000 |
To improve access to emergency contraception (EC) by educating pharmacists and assisting them in dispensing this method of early birth control. |
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MergerWatch |
$40,000 |
| To increase access to emergency contraception in targeted states by using strategies that address pharmacy refusals to stock or dispense ECs. | |
National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health |
$40,000 |
| To further understand the barriers to contraception access that Latina women experience and continue to promote access to emergency contraception among Latinas. | |
National Network of Abortion Funds |
$50,000 |
To make small grants to member funds to enable them to increase knowledge of and access to emergency contraception in their states, with an emphasis on reaching women of color and low-income women. |
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National Women's Law Center |
$50,000 |
| To ensure that women are not denied access to contraception, particularly by pharmacists and pharmacies refusing to fill prescriptions. | |
Pharmacy Access Partnership |
$50,000 |
| To improve access to contraceptive services and supplies in pharmacies; and to develop a strong role for pharmacists in improving community health. |
Improving Reproductive Health Care in the United States
Abortion Access Project |
$100,000 |
To increase access to abortion services by developing new abortion providers and developing clinical training sites for primary care physicians. |
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American Civil Liberties Union Foundation |
$70,000 |
| To promote reproductive health and rights in the US using litigation, public education, state initiatives and long-term strategic planning. | |
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 promote the development of reproductive health policy at the state level. | |
Institute for Reproductive Health Access |
$100,000 |
To expand the availability of abortion and family planning services in states across the country. |
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Ipas |
$45,000 |
| To expand access to safe, high-quality abortion care to women in the US, particularly women who are economically disadvantaged or otherwise marginalized. | |
Medical Students for Choice |
$35,000 |
| To maintain a network of support and resources for medical students and residents who want to include abortion and family planning in their training; and reform medical curricula and training to include abortion and reproductive health as a standard part of medical education. | |
National Abortion Federation |
$50,000 |
| 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 facilitate Native American women's legal access to abortion and pregnancy prevention services. | |
Reproductive Health Access Project |
$50,000 |
To increase the number of family physicians providing early abortion and contraceptive care. |
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University of California San Francisco Bixby Center for Reproductive Health Research & Policy |
$75,000 |
To demonstrate the role and value of advanced practice clinicians in providing early aspiration abortion. |
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. |
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Answer |
$75,000 |
To provide teens with medically accurate, straightforward information about reproductive health produced by their peers, and assists them in supporting comprehensive sexuality education. |
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Healthy Teen Network |
$50,000 |
To increase access to reproductive health services for adolescents by educating providers about laws relating to minors' access to contraceptives. |
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Ms. Foundation for Women |
$50,000 |
| To support state and local groups advocating for comprehensive sexuality education. | |
National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association |
$50,000 |
| To improve family planning and reproductive health providers' ability to serve as public spokespeople and advocates for those vital services. | |
National Women's Law Center |
$50,000 |
To expand and protect insurance coverage of contraceptives using legal assistance, litigation, research, policy analysis, coalition building and public education. |
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Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health |
$50,000 |
Adolescent Reproductive Health Education Project To train health care providers in best practices for addressing the sexual and reproductive health needs of adolescents. |
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SIECUS (Sexuality Information & Education Council of the US) |
$65,000 |
To use education and advocacy to secure and protect the sexual and reproductive health and rights of people in the US. |
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SIECUS (Sexuality Information & Education Council of the US) |
$50,000 |
To work with Advocates for Youth to adequately prepare for and counter the messaging and media work of the National Abstinence Education Association. |
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