The John Merck Fund
 

Reproductive Health

2008 Grants

2009  |  2008  |  2007  |  2006  |  2005  |  2004  |  2003

Exploring Links to Environmental Health

Reproductive Health Technologies Project$75,000

To cultivate a set of reproductive health and justice organizations that are committed to advancing comprehensive chemical policy reform at the national level, and to conduct critical research on effective communication strategies about reproductive health impacts from environmental exposures.

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Defending Reproductive Rights in the US

Center for Reproductive Rights$100,000

To develop high-impact state and federal litigation seeking legal standards that ensure access to reproductive health care for marginalized groups and adolescents.

Choice USA$50,000

To build and broaden an active base of youth support for abortion rights.

Tides Foundation$50,000

To strengthen the reproductive justice field by creating new funding resources and opportunities for nonprofit groups led by and for women of color to build their organizational capacity and leadership in the reproductive justice movement.

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Improving Reproductive Health Care in the United States

Abortion Access Project$100,000

To eliminate disparities in access to safe abortion for rural and low-income women and ensure abortion education and training opportunities for all qualified clinicians, particularly those working or planning to work in underserved communities.

Association of Reproductive Health Professionals$50,000

To increase knowledge among association members, the media, policymakers, and the broader public about the relationship between environmental contaminants and reproductive health outcomes and to enable them to advocate on behalf of sound policies.

Guttmacher Institute$50,000

To protect and expand reproductive rights in the United States by providing advocates and policymakers needed information.

National Institute for Reproductive Health$100,000

To seek to ensure that all women have the health care coverage and access necessary to obtain needed reproductive health care.

University of California San Francisco Bixby Center for Reproductive Health Research & Policy$75,000

To train and support advanced practice clinicians (nurse practitioners, physician assistants and certified nurse midwives) in providing early abortion services to their patients as part of quality early pregnancy care.

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Preventing Unintended Pregnancy

Advocates for Youth$50,000

To ensure that young people have access to science-based pregnancy prevention information and services, as part of comprehensive sexuality education.

Answer$75,000

To provide teens with medically accurate, straightforward information about reproductive health produced by their peers, and assist them in supporting comprehensive sexuality education.

Ms. Foundation for Women$50,000

To provide individualized technical assistance and grants to state-level organizations working to secure comprehensive, medically accurate sexuality education in the United States.

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.

Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health$50,000

To train health care providers in the best practices for addressing the sexual and reproductive health needs of young people.

SIECUS (Sexuality Information & Education Council of the US)$50,000

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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