Reproductive Justice Fund Grantee Partners (2012)
Alaska Community Action on Toxics (ACAT)Anchorage, AK | www.akaction.org ACAT is an environmental health and justice organization working primarily with Alaska Native communities to prevent exposures to toxics, protect ecosystems, and hold corporations and the military accountable. ACAT advocates for local, national, and international policies that protect clean air and water, toxic free food, and overall wellness for Alaskan communities harmed by environmental toxics. ACAT’s Environmental Reproductive Justice Project addresses local, national, and international policies linking environmental contaminants and the major reproductive justice concerns of Native villages: premature and still births, birth defects, poor infant health, involuntary infertility, spontaneous abortions, endometriosis, and reproductive cancers. In 2010 ACAT was instrumental in pressuring the US Environmental Protection Agency to stop use of endosulfan (a pesticide that has been linked to reproductive toxicity in humans and breast cancer), and in 2011 ACAT led an international ban on endosulfan. ACAT also continues to advocate for the elimination of persistent organic pollutants, chemicals found in breast milk of women of the Arctic and cause harm to reproductive health. More »
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California Healthy Nail Salons Collaborative (CHNSC)Oakland, CA | www.cahealthynailsalons.org Composed of more than 35 public health, environmental and reproductive justice organizations, educational institutions, public agencies, and nail salon workers and owners, the Collaborative addresses the environmental and reproductive health and justice issues facing nail salon workers through integrated policy advocacy, research, outreach, and education strategies. It is also one of the co-founding organizations of the National Healthy Nail and Beauty Salon Alliance which highlights the health impacts salon workers face and policies to protect them. In 2007 the Collaborative received the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental Award, and in 2010 it passed the Healthy Nail Salon Recognition Program in San Francisco, creating a recognition program for salons that do not use products containing the “Toxic Trio”. More »
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California Latinas for Reproductive Justice (CLRJ)Los Angeles, CA | www.clrj.org Founded in 2004, CLRJ is a statewide policy and advocacy organization promoting the reproductive and sexual health, rights and justice of California Latinas through social justice and human rights frameworks. CLRJ supports public policy that guarantees all Latinas (including low-income, undocumented, LGBTQ and youth), their families and communities access to culturally and linguistically appropriate, comprehensive, accurate, and unbiased reproductive and sexuality health information and services. It accomplishes this goal through grassroots organizing, culturally-based policy advocacy, alliance-building, community education and communications strategies to educate and mobilize Latinas at local and state levels. To build a powerful foundation for the RJ movement in California, CLRJ collaborates with more than 2,500 individuals and 100 organizations, coalitions and networks, and engages other sectors such as immigrant rights, youth organizing and health care reform. Recent organizing victories include: mobilizing over 30 Latina/o advocacy, social justice, and reproductive health, rights and justice organizations to win the removal of anti-abortion billboards in Los Angeles in 2011 and contributing to the defeat of Proposition 4, CA’s third consecutive parental notification ballot measure, through the California RJ Alliance, convened with Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice. More »
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Center for Young Women's Development (CYWD)San Francisco, CA | www.cywd.org CYWD’s Young Mothers United program builds the leadership of previously incarcerated young mothers of color to organize other young mothers in and out of detention to advocate for policies that ensure their rights as parents and their rights to make well-informed decisions about their reproductive health and to have access to holistic health services. Incorporated into San Francisco Juvenile Hall's policies and procedures manual, CYWD’s Young Mother's Bill of Rights is used by Young Mothers United members to train mothers in juvenile hall how to track their experiences—the number of visits and number of phone calls they have with their children and/or caretakers of their children, as well as the health care services they have received and have been offered—advocate for their rights, and provide data for CYWD’s weekly case review meetings with juvenile hall staff. CYWD is currently organizing to win access to comprehensive sex education, birth control for incarcerated youth, as well a statewide ban on the practice of shackling pregnant women during labor and delivery. More »
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Choice USA (CUSA)Washington, D.C. | www.choiceusa.org Choice USA is the only national, youth-led organization focused exclusively on increasing and sustaining the involvement young people in the reproductive justice movement. Youth are projected to comprise 30 percent of the electorate by 2015 and will be essential to protecting reproductive rights long term. With the largest youth membership base and college campus presence of any RJ organization in the US, Choice USA supports student-led organizing campaigns to increase the availability of reproductive information and services. Instrumental in putting emergency contraception back in the reach of youth ages 17 and over, and making affordable contraception accessible to millions of students, Choice USA is now working for student access to comprehensive sexuality education. More »
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Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights (COLOR)Denver, CO | www.colorlatina.org COLOR protects and promotes Latina reproductive health and justice by engaging young Latinas and their families in education, leadership development, civic participation, community organizing, and policy advocacy. Its Latina Health Summit (LHS) is an annual convening, now in its fourth year, of Latina/o community members that develops skills and leadership around health issues, with a focus on reproductive health and justice, whileLatinas Increasing Political Strength (LIPS) involves COLOR’s constituents in electoral and public policy work. LIPS members created I Got This, an organizing and marketing campaign that uses social media, blogging, merchandise, an interactive website, peer education and training to equip youth and parents to advocate for Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) within their local schools and school districts. In 2010 COLOR helped win a statewide ban on the practice of shackling incarcerated women during labor and delivery, and in 2011 a resolution ensuring comprehensive sexuality education. COLOR also played a leading role in defeating multiple fetal personhood amendments in Colorado. More » |
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Faith Aloud (FA)St. Louis, MO | www.FaithAloud.org Faith Aloud invokes the moral power of religious communities to guarantee reproductive choice through education and policy advocacy. In the heart of the Bible belt, Faith Aloud shares a compassion and reasoned theological perspective to offset the public perception that religion opposes all things having to do with sexuality—including sex education, sexual activity for pleasure, same-sex relationships, contraception and abortion. More »
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Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health (ICAH)Chicago, IL | www.icah.org ICAH is a statewide policy and grassroots advocacy organization that focuses on three areas: increasing access to sexual health care, increasing access to comprehensive sex education, and promoting comprehensive support for pregnant and parenting youth. ICAH promotes a positive approach to adolescent sexual health and develops youth leadership as a critical component of its policy and grassroots advocacy efforts. ICAH played a leading role in moving the state of Illinios to reject all federal abstinence only funding and in compelling Chicago and other cities to mandate comprehensive sex education in public schools. More »
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Legal Services for Prisoners with Children (LSPC)San Francisco, CA | www.prisonerswithchildren.org Led by formerly incarcerated persons and their families, LSPC believes that our country's growing dependence on incarceration as a solution to social problems has resulted in a critical health crisis in low-income communities of color. Its Mothers from Behind the Wall project spotlights and improves the conditions of women and children in California's Community Prisoner Mother Program, which enables incarcerated mothers to live with their young children. LSPC defines RJ for incarcerated women as the right to determine if and when they will have children and under what circumstances; the right to a healthy pregnancy outcome (including but not limited to the right to end an unwanted pregnancy); and the right to a continued relationship with their children. More »
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National Advocates for Pregnant Women (NAPW)New York, NY | www.advocatesforpregnantwomen.org NAPW is a legal advocacy intermediary organization created to ensure that women do not lose their Constitutional and human rights as a result of pregnancy; that addiction and other problems are addressed as health, rather than criminal, issues; that families are not needlessly separated based on medical misinformation; and that pregnant and parenting women have access to the full range of RH and non-punitive drug treatment services. By protecting the legal rights and human dignity of all pregnant women, with a particular focus on young, low-income, and drug-using women of color, NAPW broadens and strengthens the RJ, drug policy reform, birthing rights, and other social justice movements. More »
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National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health (NLIRH)New York, NY | www.latinainstitute.org NLIRH is the only national Latina-led RJ organization representing a diverse and growing Latina population. It is the single largest provider of bilingual resources and technical support to dozens of Latina-led RJ organizations across the U.S. and a leading RJ advocate for immigrant women. NLIRH's goal is to ensure the fundamental human right to reproductive health for Latinas, their families and communities through public education, policy advocacy, and community mobilization. It is a national leader in the fight to restore public funding for abortion. More »
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Native American Community Board (NACB)Lake Andes, SD | www.nativeshop.org NACB was created to protect and sustain the rights, sovereignty, Life Ways, and natural resources of indigenous peoples. NACB’s Native American Women’s Health Education Resource Center houses a shelter for survivors of violence, and a clearinghouse of culturally-specific women’s health education materials which are disseminated across North America. NACB helped win the Tribal Law and Order Act of 2010, giving tribes more control over law enforcement on tribal land with the goal of reducing sexual assault against women. The organization was also involved in securing $300 million in federal funding in 2009 to support tribal law enforcement and Indian Health Services to reduce the rate of sexual assault in Native communities and to improve services for women who are assaulted. In 2010 NACB launched a national campaign to force Indian Health Services to provide emergency contraception in its clinics. More »
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SPARK Reproductive Justice Now (SPARK)Atlanta, GA | www.sparkrj.org SPARK is a statewide grassroots organization sustaining a movement for reproductive justice in Georgia. With a base including a significant number of LGBT youth and strong relationships with allied social justice organizations, SPARK engages, mobilizes, and builds the leadership of historically marginalized people and communities to secure reproductive justice policy change in Georgia and to support reproductive justice efforts throughout the South. SPARK’s recent victories include defeating a statewide, pro-life personhood amendment and a law that would have barred public health clinics from distributing any information about sexual health to teens. SPARK also participated in a successful coalitional effort to defeat a law that would have banned abortions based on race and sex selection in Georgia, and played a leading role in protesting pro-life billboards targeting the Black community. More »
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Western States Center (WSC)Portland, OR | www.westernstatescenter.org Western States Center's mission is to build a powerful movement for social, economic, racial, and environmental justice in eight western states. Western States Center works on three levels: strengthening grassroots organizing and community-based leadership; building long-term, strategic alliances among community and progressive organizations; and developing the capacity of informed communities to participate in the public policy process and elections. Western States Center's Gender Justice Program works to put progressive family values principles into action by supporting organizations to develop a strong RJ political analysis and to mobilize their constituent bases to win critical public policy fights. More »
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West Virginia Focus: Reproductive Education and Equality (WV Free)Charleston, WV | www.wvfree.org WVFREE focuses on protecting access to abortion and emergency contraception, expanding access to family planning, and implementing comprehensive sexuality education. The organization uses social media and civic engagement strategies to build public awareness and participation in reproductive justice as a social issue. WVFREE has defeated an average of 50 anti-choice bills annually. In 2011, WV FREE contributed to the passage of WV’s health insurance exchange being passed without any anti-choice amendments. More »
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Young Women United (YWU)Albuquerque, NM | www.youngwomenunited.org YWU is an organizing project created by and for young women of color. Through YWU, young women develop leadership skills, support each other, gain political awareness, educate their communities, connect local concerns with national social justice efforts, and build power to organize around important issues facing their communities. YWU played a leadership role in pressuring state policymakers to have New Mexico become the 15 state in the US to refuse federal funding for abstinence only education. The organization also helped create and implement health standards and benchmarks with the New Mexico Public Education Department. In 2010 YWU began coordinating the Women Building Community Collaborative of the New Mexico Community Foundation, a collaborative of 11 women of color-led organizations working together to advance a statewide reproductive justice movement. More »
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Young Women's Empowerment Project (YWEP)Chicago, IL | www.youarepriceless.org YWEP is a member based social justice organizing project led by and for young people of color who have current or former experience in the sex trade and street economies. All staff and decision-makers within the organization were once members and are between the ages of 12-24. YWEP offers safe, respectful, judgment-free spaces for girls and young women in the sex trade and street economies to recognize their goals, dreams and desires. In 2009 YWEP released a participatory action study, Girls Do What We Have to Do to Survive which exposed the ways street-based girls and queer youth are denied help from systems established to provide them assistance, including hospitals, social service organizations, and law enforcement. From the study YWEP launched a campaign, Street Youth Rise Up, aimed at changing the way Chicago sees and treats its homeless youth. More »
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