2004 Grants


Defending Reproductive Rights in the US

Alliance for Justice

$125,000

To ensure a fair and independent judiciary by raising public and policymaker awareness of the Bush Administration's federal judicial nominees.

Center for Reproductive Rights

$150,000

To use legal strategies to protect women's access to reproductive rights and health, and to strengthen the intellectual framework of reproductive rights in the United States.


Improving Reproductive Health Care in the United States

Abortion Access Project

$50,000

To expand the number of abortion providers in the US by training advanced practice clinicians and primary care physicians in abortion care.  First year of a two-year, $100,000 grant.

Abortion Access Project

$45,000

To increase the number of abortion providers in the United States regionally and nationally, by providing training, developing curricula, and advancing public awareness of the need for more providers.  Final installment of a two-year, $90,000 grant.

American Civil Liberties Union Foundation

$50,000

To increase and protect access to reproductive health care, particularly abortion services and contraceptives, using litigation, training, education and assistance to affiliates.

American Medical Women's Association

$50,000

In collaboration with Association of Reproductive Health Professionals, National Abortion Federation and Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health, to educate health care professionals, including physicians, advanced practice clinicians, residents and medical students, about medical abortions.

Association of Reproductive Health Professionals

$50,000

To improve women's access to reproductive health care by educating health professionals and the public about early abortion.

Association of Reproductive Health Professionals

$50,000

In collaboration with American Medical Women's Association, National Abortion Federation and Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health, to educate health care professionals, including physicians, advanced practice clinicians, residents and medical students, about medical abortions.

Ibis Reproductive Health

$1,000

To support the Charlotte Ellertson Memorial Fund.

Ipas

$50,000

To improve the quality and accessibility of early abortion services, particularly manual vacuum aspiration.

Ipas

$15,000

To assess abortion care at selected US teaching hospitals.

Medical Students for Choice

$35,000

To increase educational and training opportunities for medical students and residents on abortion and reproductive health, and to revise medical school curricula and training to include abortion and reproductive health.

NARAL/NY Foundation

$100,000

To improve training for medical residents in abortion services, to create new sources of reproductive health care in rural communities, and to provide adequate access to family planning for poor women.  Final installment of a two-year, $200,000 grant.

NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado Foundation

$30,000

To improve access to emergency contraception in Colorado through research, education and public policy campaigns.

National Abortion Federation

$50,000

To increase access to abortion services through training and education.  Final installment of a two-year, $100,000 grant.

National Abortion Federation

$50,000

In collaboration with Association of Reproductive Health Professionals, American Medical Women's Association, and Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health, to educate health care professionals, including physicians, advanced practice clinicians, residents and medical students, about medical abortions.

Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health

$50,000

To collaboration with Association of Reproductive Health Professionals, American Medical Women's Association and National Abortion Federation, to educate health care professionals, including physicians, advanced practice clinicians, residents and medical students, about medical abortions.

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Preventing Unintended Pregnancy

Advocates for Youth

$50,000

To promote comprehensive sexuality education, with an emphasis on a science-based framework, policymaker education, and state and parent organizing.s

Advocates for Youth

$50,000

To educate young people about emergency contraception and mobilize them to increase their access to this form of birth control.

Alan Guttmacher Institute

$50,000

To reduce the incidence of unintended pregnancy by giving advocates information to support state and federal family planning programs for low-income women and teens, and by reaching media representatives with this information.  First installment of a two-year, $100,000 grant.

Alaska Emergency Contraception Project

$25,000

To increase public and private health care provider knowledge of emergency contraception and to promote its availability across Alaska.

Education Fund of Family Planning Advocates of New York State

$30,000

To increase access to emergency contraception for victims of sexual assault.

NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin Foundation

$7,000

To educate Wisconsin health care providers about emergency contraception and provide them with tools to make EC counseling a regular part of their health care services.

National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association

$50,000

To protect and expand access to family planning and reproductive health care for low-income and uninsured women through the federally funded Title X health care program.

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, rural women and Spanish-speaking women.

National Women's Law Center

$50,000

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

National Women's Law Center

$50,000

To address the problem of pharmacies refusing to fill prescriptions for contraceptives, citing religious or moral objections.

Network for Family Life Education

$60,000

To provide teens and adults who work with them accurate and balanced information generated by teens about adolescent sexuality and responsible behavior.

Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice

$25,000

To educate youth in Latino faith-based communities about teen pregnancy, sexuality, and reproductive health in the context of their own religion and culture.

Reproductive Health Technologies Project

$50,000

To promote over-the-counter access to emergency contraception by maintaining a coordinated coalition and developing and communicating a unified message.

Reproductive Health Technologies Project

$15,000

To encourage the Food and Drug Administration to approve Plan B© emergency contraception as an over-the-counter medication.

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.

University of California San Francisco

$35,000

To increase access to emergency contraception by educating health professionals, reproductive health advocates, the public and the media about EC policies through the Center for Reproductive Health Research & Policy.  First installment of a two-year, $70,000 grant.



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Overview

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    Civic Engagement / Defense of the Public Interest