CEASE & DESIST serves incarcerated girls and young women ages 10-17 in Georgia. CEASE & DESIST works to protect their human rights by curbing detrimental and excessive imprisonment through community mobilization to provide gender-specific and culturally competent effective assistance of counsel, rehabilitative programs and resources, and monitoring conditions of confinement to improve the quality of reproductive health services available to girls and women detained in penal facilities. Link: CEASE & DESIST
CEASE & DESIST was funded in 2004. They are based in the Southeast and work in Criminal/Legal System and Reproductive Justice.
JASMYN offers the only teen-friendly safe space in northeast Florida for LGBTQ and gender queer youth to grow and develop their leadership and activism skills. In addition to hosting a drop-in health clinic, JASMYN runs the Gender Connections Project, which promotes wholeness and social change with transgender (including gender variant) youth through empowerment, reproductive justice awareness, education, advocacy, and support services. JASMYN’s youth leaders were instrumental in the passage of anti-harassment policy in Florida public schools. Link: Jacksonville Area Sexual Minority Youth Network
JASMYN was funded in 2008, 2009 and 2010. They are based in the Southeast and work in Community Health & Healing, Gender Justice, LGBTQ Rights and Trans Health utilizing Direct Services, Leadership Development and Political/Peer Education.
Just Be, Inc., based in Selma, AL, helps young women who have suffered from sexual abuse, assault, and exploitation to transform from victims into survivors. The Breitbart Memorial Fund grant allowed the Me Too program to hire a consultant for the development of the Survivor’s Leadership Training curriculum. Link: Just Be, Inc.
Just Be, Inc. was funded in 2007. They are based in the Southeast and work in Community Health & Healing, Harm Reduction and Sexual Violence.
Power U seeks to organize low-income communities directly impacted by institutional oppression to create an equitable and just society. Third Wave’s grant will support the POWERful Women and Families project, which addresses maternal and child health disparities in communities of color. Childbirth classes are an entry point for young leaders to engage with Power U's birthing justice campaign, which advocates for policies that are baby-friendly, support breastfeeding infants and mothers, and expand access to the midwifery model of care within the Jackson Health System. Link: Power U Center for Social Change
Power U Center for Social Change was funded in 2010. They are based in the Southeast and work in Birthing Rights, Economic Justice, Health Care Access, Organizing & Advocacy and Racial Justice utilizing Leadership Development and Political/Peer Education.
SisterSong held its 2nd Annual Let’s Talk About Sex! Conference, attended by 1,000 individuals from all regions of the United States and beyond. Third Wave’s sponsorship made it possible for economically disadvantaged advocates of reproductive justice to participate and present at the conference. Link: SisterSong
SisterSong was funded in 2007. They are based in the Southeast and work in Racial Justice and Reproductive Justice.
SPARK Reproductive Justice NOW works to build and sustain a powerful reproductive justice movement in Georgia and the South that centers the experiences of young women of color, LGBTQ youth of color, and other marginalized communities. Last year, SPARK was instrumental in the defeat of a race and sex selection anti-abortion bill, and the accompanying racist billboard campaign. In early 2011, SPARK released “Giving Birth Behind Bars: A Guide to Achieving Reproductive Justice for Incarcerated Women,” as an introduction to their state-wide anti-shackling campaign. Link: SPARK
SPARK Reproductive Justice NOW was funded in 2008, 2009 and 2010. They are based in the Southeast and work in Anti-Violence, Gender Justice, LGBTQ Rights, Organizing & Advocacy, Racial Justice and Reproductive Justice utilizing Leadership Development and Political/Peer Education.
Women with a Vision (WWAV) seeks to promote wellness and disease prevention for women and their families living at or below the poverty line through health promotion, advocacy, and community based research. WWAV is a harm reduction organization that has, in response to the rapidly changing political context in New Orleans, adopted a focus on women who are impacted by street economies, the sex trade, who are or were formerly engaged in sex work, or who are homeless or street-based. With Third Wave’s support, WWAV will increase the engagement of young people in their NO Justice Project, which challenges the criminalization of sex work under the Louisiana Statute 14:89, the Solicitation of a Crime Against Nature (SCAN) statute. This statute is currently being challenged in federal courts. Link: Women With A Vision
Women With A Vision was funded in 2010. They are based in the Southeast and work in Anti-Violence, Community Health & Healing, Criminal/Legal System, Harm Reduction, Organizing & Advocacy and Sex Work & Sex Trade utilizing Direct Services, Leadership Development and Research.