A Long Walk Home uses art therapy and the visual and performance arts to document, to educate and to bring about social change. Using testimonies, poetry, music, photographs, and videos of and by women and children, A Long Walk Home provides safe and entertaining forums through which the public learns about healing from trauma. One of their core programs is Girl/Friends, a multi-media art program designed specifically for adolescent girls (ages 14-19) that addresses issues of sexual assault, teenage dating violence, statutory rape, sexual harassment and sexual assault laws. Link: A Long Walk Home
A Long Walk Home was funded in 2004 and 2008. They are based in the Nationwide and work in Anti-Violence, Community Health & Healing and Sexual Violence.
Through leadership development, political education, and community organizing, the Brown Boi Project cultivates spaces in which young queer womyn and men of color can explore and develop healthy frameworks of masculinity within the context of family, gender, race, sexual orientation, and class. With Third Wave’s support, the Brown Boi Project will develop a health curriculum that speaks specifically to young masculine of center womyn and gender nonconforming youth of color, and creates space for these young people within the reproductive health and justice movement. Link: Brown Boi Project
Brown Boi Project was funded in 2010. They are based in the Nationwide and work in Community Health & Healing, Economic Justice, Gender Justice, Racial Justice and Trans Health utilizing Leadership Development.
Choice USA organizes young people on college campuses around the country to engage in reproductive justice campaigns that address national, state, and local policies. Choice USA's leadership training program is nationally recognized for developing young leaders and facilitating their entry into the reproductive justice movement. Recently, Choice USA members have mobilized to ensure coverage for young people under the recent healthcare reform and worked with COLOR to defeat the 2010 fetal personhood amendment introduced in Colorado, Amendment 62. Link: Choice USA
Choice USA was funded in 2009 and 2010. They are based in the Nationwide and work in Comprehensive Sex Education, Health Care Access, Organizing & Advocacy and Reproductive Justice utilizing Leadership Development and Political/Peer Education.
Movement Strategies Center Scholarships ensured that young women and transgender youth of color were able to attend a Sustainable Organizing Training. Link: Movement Strategies Center Scholarships
Movement Strategies Center Scholarships was funded in 2006. They are based in the Nationwide and work in LGBTQ Rights and Racial Justice.
National Advocates for Pregnant Women works to secure the rights, health, and welfare of all women, focusing particularly on pregnant and parenting women and those who are most vulnerable – low income women, women of color, and drug-using women. Third Wave sponsored their 2007 conference on the rights of pregnant women and drug policy reform. Link: National Advocates for Pregnant Women
National Advocates for Pregnant Women was funded in 2007. They are based in the Nationwide and work in Reproductive Justice and Youth Mothers' & Parents' Rights.
The National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health (NLIRH) works to ensure the fundamental human right to reproductive health and justice for Latinas, their families and their communities through public education, community mobilization and policy advocacy. Through coalition-building, public education, and policy advocacy, NLIRH has been a major force in bringing the struggles and triumphs of immigrant women to the forefront of the reproductive health and women’s movements. Third Wave’s support increases NLIRH’s capacity to cultivate a highly skilled cadre of young Latina reproductive justice activists who are mobilizing for social change. Link: National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health
National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health was funded in 2009 and 2010. They are based in the Nationwide and work in Comprehensive Sex Education, Human Rights, Immigrant Rights, Policy Advocacy, Reproductive Justice and Youth Mothers' & Parents' Rights utilizing Leadership Development, Political/Peer Education and Research.
This fund was set up by the National Network of Abortion Funds to respond to the sharp demand for financial assistance by those affected in the hurricane region. When women and girls cannot afford a safe, legal abortion, they can turn to the members of the National Network of Abortion Funds for help. These funds subsidize the cost of an abortion. Many abortion funds provide information and support, and some provide related services such as transportation, housing, child care, options counseling, or funding for ultrasound, pregnancy testing, or followup care. Link: National Network of Abortion Funds
National Network of Abortion Funds was funded in 2005. They are based in the Nationwide and work in Reproductive Justice.
The National Sex Worker of Color Network's Leadership Development Institute (LDI) is a collaborative effort on the part of Different Avenues, Young Women's Empowerment Project and Women with a Vision. The LDI will foster leadership among people of color involved in sex work or the sex trade to build a national network of activists who can support policy analysis, community-based research, and develop joint strategies with other social justice movements.
National Sex Worker of Color Leadership Development Institute was funded in 2010. They are based in the Nationwide and work in Anti-Violence, Harm Reduction, Movement Building, Organizing & Advocacy, Racial Justice and Sex Work & Sex Trade utilizing Leadership Development.
The Reproductive Justice Briefing Book is a collection of essays distributed at the first ever United States Social Forum in Atlanta, GA, in 2007. The Book has continued to grow online, with essays addressing the wide range of issues impacting reproductive health, such as US foreign policy and environmental toxins. Link: Reproductive Justice Briefing Book
Reproductive Justice Briefing Book was funded in 2007. They are based in the Nationwide and work in Racial Justice and Reproductive Justice.
Truth About Sex is an emerging reproductive justice website run for and by adults under 30. To inspire a new generation of spokespersons, the founders decided to develop an online forum where young adults could critically and artistically engage public discourse about reproductive justice.
Truth About Sex was funded in 2004. They are based in the Nationwide and work in Comprehensive Sex Education and Reproductive Justice.