Tides Center

This grant would continue support for two key components of the Tides Center's Reproductive Justice Initiative. The Reproductive Justice Fund enables several larger organizations that are led by and for women of color -such as California Latinas for Reproductive Justice and Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice-to expand their grassroots organizing, advocacy, and infrastructure. The Catalyst Fund provides matching challenge grants to a number of smaller similar organizations whose work includes reproductive rights for communities of color. These investments are central to one of our Program's domestic strategy goals: diversifying the pro-choice movement to increase its impact and better attract and serve women who are most likely to have unplanned pregnancies and abortions. Over the past two years, organizations supported by these funds have made important contributions to a number of policy advances and increased their organizational effectiveness-largely through Tides' technical and financial support.