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Innovations in Service Delivery

Grantee List

Grantees
Innovation in Service Delivery Grants Awarded, 1997-2004

Links to other organizations are provided where available.

EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION:

Academy for Educational Development
New York, NY
$323,863 for the Emergency Contraception and Adolescents Project in Harlem and in selected school clinics elsewhere in New York City (1997-2001).

Advocates for Youth
Washington, DC
$495,000 to raise awareness about emergency contraception among young women nationally and in several key states (2000-2003).

American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
$14,775 to support "Emergency Contraception for Rape Survivors: Policies to Ensure a
Uniform Standard of Care" (2001).

American Medical Women's Association Foundation
New York, NY
$30,000 for additional printing and distribution of a special issue on emergency contraception (1998).

Association of Reproductive Health Professionals*
Washington, DC
$170,000 to support provider education initiatives on emergency contraception and early abortion options (2000-2004).

Center for Reproductive Health Research and Policy, University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
$183,166 to support clinical trials comparing the effects of three emergency contraception service delivery methods on access, unintended pregnancy rates, sexually transmitted disease rates, regular contraceptive usage, and frequency of unprotected intercourse (2002-2003).

Community Healthcare Network*
New York, NY
$286,000 to expand provision of emergency contraception, and to plan and implement a program to offer mifepristone at CHN centers (2001-2003).

NARAL/NY
New York, NY
$339,000 to support the Campaign for Access for Emergency Contraception (2002-2004).

Pacific Institute for Women's Health
Los Angeles, CA
$100,000 for advocacy and education efforts in the areas of adolescent reproductive health services and emergency contraception (1997-1999).

Pacific Institute for Women's Health*
Los Angeles, CA
$50,000 to support "Increasing Demand for and Access to Emergency Contraception and Medical Abortion in California" (2002-2003).

PATH
Seattle, WA
$109,000 for a pilot project to reach diverse communities with information on emergency contraception through public education and training of healthcare providers, social workers, and pharmacists (1999-2001).

Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc.
New York, NY
$1,000,000 for the Emergency Contraception Project a public education campaign to build awareness of emergency contraception among teens and young women; and an educational effort for providers at Planned Parenthood affiliates and other healthcare providers (1998-2001).

Planned Parenthood of Central and Northern Arizona*
Phoenix, AZ
$114,000 to support the Emergency Contraception and Medical Abortion Public Awareness Campaign (2002-2003).

Planned Parenthood of Maryland
Baltimore, MD
$55,804 to support the Emergency Contraception Project, an education and outreach program to increase awareness and access to emergency contraception (2002-2003).

Population Council
New York, NY
$237,000 for clinical trials to test the efficacy of a reduced dosage emergency contraception regimen (1998-2000).

Population Services International
Washington, DC
$125,000 for a model emergency contraception pill public education project in Sacramento County, CA (1999-2001).

ProChoice Resource Center
Port Chester, NY
$275,000 to support EC Does It, a project to assist pharmacists and other grassroots groups in promoting awareness of, and access to, emergency contraception (1998-2002).

Public Health Institute
Berkeley, CA
$150,000 to support the Pharmacy Access Partnership (2002-2003).

Reproductive Health Technologies Project
Washington, DC
$200,000 to expand the project's Emergency Contraception Campaign, a series of print, radio, and television advertisements publicizing the project's Emergency Contraception Hotline, which gives callers from around the country basic information about emergency contraception, as well as the names and telephone numbers of five places locally where it is available (1998-2000).

Reproductive Health Technologies Project
Washington, DC
$50,000 to support "Demand Your EC" Day: An Activist Campaign (2001-2002).

Reproductive Health Technologies Project
Washington, DC
$100,000 to support two initiatives: a project in Oakland, CA to increase awareness of emergency contraception, and a national advocacy campaign to move emergency contraception to over-the-counter status (2000-2001).

Reproductive Health Technologies Project
Washington, DC
$150,000 for general suppport (2002-2004).

EARLY OPTIONS IN PREGNANCY TERMINATION:

Abortion Access Project, Inc. (formerly the Boston Reproductive Rights Network)
Cambridge, MA
$190,000 to support the New Abortion Provider Training Initiative (formerly called the New England Midlevel Training Consortium) (1997-2003).

Abortion Rights Mobilization
New York, NY
$110,000 to produce mifepristone for use in clinical trials and research (1998-1999).

American Medical Women's Association Foundation (AMWA)
New York, NY
$25,000 to support production, promotion and distribution of a special supplement to the Journal of the American Medical Women's Association (JAMWA) on medical abortion (1999-2000).

American Medical Women's Association Foundation
New York, NY
$150,000 to support the Medical Abortion Education Project of AMWA's Reproductive Health Initiative (2000-2002).

Association of Reproductive Health Professionals*
Washington, DC
$135,000 to support provider education initiatives on emergency contraception and early abortion options (2000-2003).

Center for Reproductive Health Research and Policy, University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
$560,000 to support collaborative efforts with university medical faculties and others to improve early abortion services (2000-2004).

Center for Reproductive Health Research and Policy, University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
$74,865 to support a sociological study of new abortion providers (2002-2003).

Community Healthcare Network*
New York, NY
$286,000 to expand provision of emergency contraception, and to plan and implement a program to offer mifepristone at CHN centers (2001-2003).

Early Options
Brooklyn, NY
$430,000 to support a training program in early abortion options for physicians practicing family medicine (2000-2004).

EngenderHealth (formerly AVSC, International)
New York, NY
$167,000 to support a comparative evaluation of currently available manual vacuum aspiration (MVA) instruments, in collaboration with PATH (2001-2002).

Ipas
Carrboro, NC
$75,043 to promote U.S. physicians' knowledge of manual vacuum aspiration, an early abortion technology (1998-2002).

Ipas
Carrboro, NC
$150,000 to support a project to promote and expand women's access to early abortion care in the U.S. (2002-2004).

Ipas
Carrboro, NC
$250,000 to support the K2 MVA Initiative (2001-2002).

Long Island College Hospital
Brooklyn, NY
$340,000 to support the education and outreach dimensions of a training program on early abortion options for physicians practicing family medicine (2000-2003).

Medical and Health Research Association of NYC
New York, NY
$588,314 to support a pilot program to introduce medical abortion at MIC-Women's Health Services in New York City (2000-2004).

NARAL/NY
New York, NY
$150,000 for the Rural Provider Project to increase access to reproductive healthcare services for women in underserved rural communities, mainstream these services into hospitals and other established medical practices, and increase access to new reproductive technologies (2000-2003).

National Abortion Federation
Washington, DC
$100,000 for the Access Initiative Project to alleviate the shortage of abortion providers, to increase abortion training opportunities, and to provide information and support to women faced with unplanned pregnancies (1998-1999).

National Abortion Federation
Washington, DC
$620,000 to fully integrate medical abortion in NAF's programs (2000-2004).

New York Civil Liberties Union Foundation
New York, NY
$50,000 to support a Medical Abortion Access Project, promoting the integration of early abortion into mainstream medical care (2000-2001).

Pacific Institute for Women's Health*
Los Angeles, CA
$50,000 to support "Increasing Demand for and Access to Emergency Contraception and Medical Abortion in California" (2002-2003).

Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health
New York, NY
$95,000 to implement the Medical Education and Training Initiative emphasizing education on medical abortion and manual vacuum aspiration (2000-2002).

Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health
New York, NY
$100,000 to support the "Promoting the Integration of Abortion and Contraception into Mainstream Health Care" Program (2002-2004).

Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000 for a Strategic Positioning Meeting for the Introduction of Mifepristone to the United States (1999).

Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc.
New York, NY
$1,000,000 to support the Nationwide Mifepristone Affiliate-Readiness Project (2001-2003).

Planned Parenthood of Central and Northern Arizona*
Phoenix, AZ
$114,000 to support the Emergency Contraception and Medical Abortion Public Awareness Campaign (2002-2003).

Planned Parenthood of New York City
New York, NY
$150,000 to support a proposed collaboration between PPNYC and the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation to streamline abortion services in New York City's public hospitals (2002-2004).

Planned Parenthood of New York City
New York, NY
$35,000 to support clinician training in medical abortion provision and counseling (2001-2002).

Population Council
New York, NY
$383,000 for clinical trials to test the safety and efficacy of a reduced dosage of mifepristone (2000-2001).

University of Puerto Rico
Cayey, PR
$45,000 to support the creation of an abortion curriculum for medical, nursing, and public health departments within the university (1998-2001).

University of Rochester School of Medicine (Reproductive Health Program) Rochester, NY
$123,536 to support a reproductive health summer fellowship program, and a reproductive health Grand Round series (2001-2003).

* Grant listed under both Emergency Contraception and Early Options in Pregnancy Termination.

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