Southern Birth Justice Network
Miami Shores, FL
2019
Southern Birth Justice Network's mission is to expand Birth Justice by using story telling, popular education, and community organizing to improve access to midwifery and doula care.
Grantees
A Woman's Way
Charlotte, NC
2018
A Woman’s Way's mission is to offer women health information, aimed at improving both Infant and Maternal health within African American Communities. Our strategies include forging collaboratives with...
Action4Ashley
Winston-Salem, NC
2018
Action4Ashley's mission is multi-dimensional and focused on fully obtaining an equitable education for students. Action4Ashley began in the Spring of 2018 in response to parent and teacher concerns...
Desiree Alliance
Fort Smith, AR
2015
The Desiree Alliance is a diverse, sex worker-led network of organizations, communities and individuals across the US working in harm reduction, direct services, political advocacy and health services...
Kentucky Health Justice Network
Louisville, KY
2015
KHJN supports Kentuckians towards achieving autonomy in our lives and justice for our communities.We advocate, educate, and provide direct services to ensure all Kentucky communities and individuals have...
LGBTQ Freedom Fund
Tampa, FL
2018
Each day, tens of thousands of LGBTQ people are held in jail or immigration detention because they cannot afford bail, often $25 or $100—for charges like sleeping in...
MassADAPT
Boston, MA
2018
We are the Massachusetts chapter of ADAPT - a national, grass-roots, disability rights organization that organizes disability rights activists to engage in nonviolent direct action, including civil disobedience,...
Muslim Community Link
Worcester, MA
2018
Muslim Community Link was founded in 2001 to serve underrepresented Muslims in the Greater Worcester community. Today, we’re working to foster healthy community development and engagement, through community...
P.L.U.S. Memphis
Memphis, TN
2019
P.L.U.S. Memphis improves health outcomes, increases health equity, literacy, and access for all by enchaining the awareness of HIV, STI, and other public health issues that contribute to...
Prison Birth Project
Northampton, MA
2015, 2014, 2013
When the gender-specific jail opened in Chicopee in 2008, co-founders Lisa Andrews and Marianne Bullock understood that incarcerated women are not offered the full spectrum of reproductive options,...
Resilient Sisterhood Project
Boston, MA
2015, 2014
The Resilient Sisterhood Project’s mission is to educate and empower women of African descent regarding common but rarely discussed diseases of the reproductive system that disproportionately affect them...
Root Cause Research Center
Louisville, KY
2019
The Root Cause Research Center trains and works alongside impacted community members to further examine and address social determinants of health in the American South.
SafeBAE
Cape Elizabeth, ME
2019
SafeBAE is a survivor founded, teen lead organization educating middle and high-school students about healthy relationships, dating violence and sexual assault, affirmative consent, bystander intervention, survivor self-care, and...
South Carolina Progressive Network
Columbia, SC
2012, 2013, 2014
The South Carolina Progressive Network is a coalition of grassroots activists who have joined forces to promote social and economic justice in the Palmetto State. Created in 1995...
Southern Maine Workers' Center
Portland, ME
2016, 2015, 2013
The Southern Maine Workers’ Center is a nonprofit membership organization committed to creating a grassroots, people-powered movement that improves the lives, working conditions, and terms of employment for...