NIRH works across the country to advance proactive policy on the state and local levels to ensure that all people have access to reproductive health care, including abortion care.
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Using a partnership model, we provide state and local advocates with strategic guidance, hands-on support, and funding to create national change from the ground up.
Our Reach
We’ve partnered with more than 170 organizations in 64 localities and 43 states in the past decade.
The National Institute’s partnerships support state- and local-based initiatives that advance the goals of the reproductive health, rights, and justice movements.
Increasing access to reproductive health care by changing public policy, galvanizing public support, and normalizing women’s decisions about abortion and contraception.
NIRH in the News
- City’s $92.8B budget funds mental health, abortion care, Crain’s New York Business (June 17, 2019)
- New York could become first city to provide abortion funding, CNN (June 15, 2019)
- New York City to directly fund abortion, in a historic first, ThinkProgress (June 15, 2019)
- New York Becomes the First City in the U.S. to Directly Fund Abortions, The Cut (June 14, 2019)
- New York City Allocates $250,000 for Abortions, Challenging Conservative States, New York Times (June 14, 2019)
What We Do
- Provide funding to support proactive policy initiatives.
- Policy expertise to draft bills, testify at hearings, and advise on implementing policies.
- Activist mobilization to activate our networks to support our partners’ efforts.
- Media support to amplify these initiatives by drafting press releases, placing op-eds, and garnering local and national coverage of these successes.
