SPARK Reproductive Justice NOW
For The Southeast Alliance For Reproductive Empowerment Project
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Amount$250,000
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Program
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Date Awarded11/13/2017
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Term24.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
This grant will support the Southeast Alliance for Reproductive Empowerment project, a partnership of SisterSong, SPARK Reproductive Justice, Women’s Rights and Empowerment Network, and Healthy and Free Tennessee. The project aims to build a stronger movement in the Southeast to support full and equal access to reproductive rights, information, and services. This seed grant will fund the startup phase of the project, including creating organizational infrastructure and a coordinating body; mapping the movement for reproductive rights in theregion; defining a common agenda, progress measures, and activities; and recruiting member organizations.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.sparkrj.org
Address
P.O. Box 89210, Atlanta, GA, 30312, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for the JusticeNOW2024 Conference
SPARK Reproductive Justice Now serves as an entry point and leadership pipeline for new social justice leaders, and a political home for Black women and young people centering Black queer women, trans folx, and folx living outside the gender binary. They utilize arts, culture, and media to build resources for and shift narratives about their communities. They engage in power building through grassroots organizing, advocacy, and knowledge-building. This grant supports the JusticeNOW2024 Conference to be held from November 15-17 in Atlanta, Georgia. (U.S. Reproductive Equity).
for the Southeast Alliance for Reproductive Empowerment project
This grant will support SPARK Reproductive Justice NOW! to continue its role as one of the founding alliance members of SEARE, a Southern regional partnership working to align reproductive health, rights, and justice organizations serving diverse communities in the Southeast. The project has a strong focus on racial equity in order to unify the movement in the Southeast for full equitable access to reproductive rights and health information and services. In this second phase of the partnership, the four anchor organizations will continue to build an infrastructure to create resources and opportunities for new alliance members through communications and engagement, policy, and a Southeastern convening space.
