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If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results. -Emily Bronte

Grants

Grant Guidelines

Click here for the updated pdf file of the "Foundation for the Advancement of Midwifery, Inc. 2008 Grant Application Guidelines." And, click here for a Word file of the application which you can use in your application process.

The Foundation grants funds for programs and projects that:

  • Educate the general public and/or policy makers regarding the midwifery model of care,
  • Increase access to midwifery care, or
  • Support research activities relating to midwifery care.

Grants are not made to large, public charities such as United Way, March of Dimes, American Cancer Society, The Salvation Army, government agencies, political, or religious organizations.

Grants are not made for individual scholarships at this time.

Grants are not made to for-profit organizations.

The Foundation supports organizations that are diverse in their leadership, staffing, and service provision on the basis of age, gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, national origin, political affiliation or religious belief. 

The Foundation reserves the right to prioritize support for selected organizations working within its guideline areas whose services target specific groups that have been subject to economic, social, political or other forms of discrimination. 

Application Procedures

  • All inquiries regarding grants and all grant requests must be made in writing.
  • Applications are reviewed by the Grantmaking and Programs Committee.
  • Grant amounts are determined annually.
  • Note new date: Applications must be received no later than March 15. 
  • Grants are typically awarded by May 15.
  • At its discretion, the Foundation may award grants outside of its usual funding cycle. 
  • Award recipients will be notified by mail.
  • Award recipients will be required to enter into a grant agreement with the Foundation, which sets forth the terms and conditions of the grant award.

Click here for the updated pdf file of the "Foundation for the Advancement of Midwifery, Inc. 2008 Grant Application Guidelines." And click here for the Word file you may use for your application.


At the Midwives Alliance of North America 2006 conference, October 13-15 in Baltimore, BJ Mackinnon presented MANA President Diane Holzer with a check from FAM for the MANA Division of Research . . .


. . . and one for the MANA Public Education campaign!

Grants Awarded

2007:

The Foundation for the Advancement of Midwifery proudly bestows the 2007 grant awards to the following organizations:

  • The Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA) to enable it to create and promote a website for the Mothers Naturally Campaign, as part of MANA’s professionally guided public strategy to educate the public about midwifery care and homebirth.
  • The Maternal Wellness Center for the Sisters Study Circles program, and partial funding for its Healthy Moms Initiative. The Healthy Moms Initiative is a social support and stress-reduction service program offered to pregnant women living with low incomes. It is based on a wellness model that combines psychological and emotional support with stress reduction and holistic birth education with an emphasis on the importance of a positive birth experience. The Sister Study Circle is a new program aimed at assisting African-American and Latina women as well as women living with lower incomes to become childbirth educators and doulas.
  • The Tewa Women United for the Tewa Birthing Project. The Indigenous Women’s Health and Reproductive Justice Program encourages Pueblo women to become active participants in their healthcare including their reproductive healthcare through all stages of life and aims to revitalize and utilize traditional Indigenous knowledge and practice in women’s health. The Tewa Birthing Project specifically aims to revive traditional childbearing and childrearing practice and language in Tewa communities.
  • The University of British Columbia Division of Midwifery, in support of Phase II of the Division’s proposed study of attitudes among health care practitioners and others that may create barriers to homebirth. Eliciting and describing information on perceived barriers towards planned home births may provide insight into unrecognized perceptions and systemic barrier that affect the choice of practice sites among American and Canadian maternity care providers and guide research into the feasibility of increasing access to planned home births in North America. For phase 2 of this project funds are needed to develop and validate surveys that will be administered to other North-American maternity care providers and key informants.

2006:

  • MANA, development of Public Education Initiative
  • Ken Johnson & Betty Anne Davis, CPM Stats Project
  • MANA Division of Research, software upgrade to stats website
  • MANA, assistance in bringing international midwives to MANA Conference

2005:

  • Robbie Davis-Floyd, to increase public awareness of midwifery model of care
  • Midwifery Education Accreditation Council, infrastructure and board support
  • Association of Texas Midwives, educational activities
  • MANA, assistance in bringing international midwives to MANA Conference
  • Citizens for Midwifery, support for grassroots efforts
  • MANA, development of Public Education Initiative

2004:

  • Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA) Research Division Web-Based Data Collection Project
  • Holy Family Services Birth Center Paloma Project
  • Midwifery Education Accreditation Council (MEAC)
  • MANA, public education equipment
  • MANA, assistance to bring international midwives to MANA conference
  • Joint Board Collaborative Effort Development (MANA, MEAC, NARM, CfM, and FAM)

2003:

  • CPM2000 Statistics Project

Some of the above grants were "donor advised;" i.e., the donor specified how money was to be spent when they donated it.

 

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