Grantee Stories

Meeting Families Where They Are

Ancient Song Doula Services in Brooklyn, NY provided doula services to 211 individuals in 2021 free of charge, while also providing 1200 people with groceries, diapers, baby wipes, formula, and personal protective equipment, along with childbirth and prenatal education. 

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Reproductive Justice is Housing Justice is Worker’s Justice

Black and Brown working-class women in South Florida experience many issues at once: housing insecurity, job precarity, depressed wages, unsafe working conditions, and state violence. 

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Multi-Issue Organizing Leads to Increased Voter Turnout

In 2021, Mississippi Black Women’s Roundtable continued to provide intergenerational civic engagement network and started providing housing and utility assistance, groceries, meals, diapers and formula, clean water, childcare assistance, and laundry services to families in crisis.

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Shifting Perspectives on Reproductive Justice

In 2021, the Asian American Organizing Project emphasized expanding knowledge and access to culturally relevant sexual health and wellness, which helped them build momentum and expand their base.

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Protecting Abortion Access in the South

CHOICES in Tennessee established a midwifery fellowship for Black midwives to increase their skills and expertise in full-spectrum reproductive and sexual health care.

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Investing in Collaboration and Collective Power

Bold Futures New Mexico focused on the harmful realities the Hyde Amendment poses for Indigenous people in New Mexico and began to invest more deeply in collaborations that reflect their reproductive justice values.

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In 2021, Colorado Passed the Most Comprehensive Birth Equity Laws in the Country

Groundswell Fund grantee partners Elephant Circle, Soul to Soul Sisters, and COLOR supported three Black state legislators to advance three RJ-related bills through the state legislature.

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