The Catalyst Fund: A New Era in Evaluating The Reproductive Justice Movement

THE CATALYST FUND
A new era in evaluating the

2014 reproductive justice movement
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Welcome .............................................................................................................i
Introduction........................................................................................................ 1
Organizing in Diverse Communities..................................................................... 4
Map of 2014 Catalyst Grantees’ Organizing Efforts .......................................... 6
Geographic Focus: Working in the South.......................................................... 8
Strengthening Leadership ................................................................................... 9
Leveraging Power with Allies ............................................................................ 11
Effecting Change ............................................................................................... 13
Policy Advocacy ............................................................................................. 13
Grantee Capacity and Leadership...................................................................... 19
Mobilizing Resources ........................................................................................ 20
Appendix .......................................................................................................... 23
Policies Passed or Blocked in 2014 ................................................................. 24
Acknowledgements and Methods .................................................................. 31
Groundswell Fund Theory of Change ............................................................. 32
National Funders and Grantmaking Partners ................................................. 33
Catalyst Grantees........................................................................................... 34
Korwin Consulting, an evaluation and planning firm, advances social justice solutions by identifying
community strengths, building organizational capacity, and evaluating impact. More information on
Korwin Consulting is available at www.korwinconsulting.com.
Lisa Korwin, Principal
Robin Horner, Senior Evaluation Associate
Kenya Avant and Sarah Duffy, Evaluation Assistants
All photos in this report are identified by organization on the Acknowledgements and Methods page in the Appendix.
“The ultimate goal of Groundswell Fund is a vibrant and organized grassroots
base with the power to advance reproductive justice for the long haul."
Welcome to the new Catalyst evaluation.

Groundswell Fund is pleased to share the 2014 Catalyst Fund evaluation, the largest data set for
the U.S. reproductive justice movement. This year’s evaluation is the first to feature data
gathered using our new online evaluation instrument, designed in partnership with Korwin
Consulting. Launched in 2014 following extensive testing and feedback from funder and grantee
partners, the new tool is designed to measure indicators of grassroots power-building at a
greater level of detail than ever before possible. It reflects Groundswell’s best learning from
more than a decade of supporting grassroots organizing and policy advocacy for reproductive
justice.
Over the years, we have observed the challenges facing both funders and grantee partners as
they attempt to evaluate grassroots organizing. Grassroots organizations often do successful,
effective work, but lack the evaluation tools to fully track — and claim credit for — their impact.
Funders and donors often lack the metrics and indicators that allow them to accurately
measure the effectiveness of grassroots power-building; as a result, they may underestimate
the impact of grassroots organizing as a strategy for change.
It can be alluring for funders to look at grassroots organizing through a lens that equates scale
with power and policy change with ultimate success. Groundswell proposes a different lens. We
see policy wins as important, but paper thin without an organized and sustained grassroots
base able to ensure implementation and protect them from erosion or repeal. We view scale as
important to — but not equal to — power. Real power requires meaningful, sustained
leadership and relationships at the community level that can hold decision-makers accountable
over the long haul. We believe that organizing is long-term work that requires long-term
investment — and that there are clear quantitative and qualitative benchmarks that
demonstrate whether or not an organization is in fact building power for the long haul.
It is our hope that this report will contribute to a larger body of work, one that offers solutions
to the challenge of evaluating grassroots organizing — a set of indicators and approaches
relevant and helpful to on-the-ground organizers and to funders. We also hope that these
findings shine an ever-brighter light on the powerful and game-changing work carried out by
the organizations leading the U.S. reproductive justice movement. It is our privilege to support
them.
Warmly,
Vanessa Daniel
Executive Director
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“Mass-based social justice movements are necessary to advance change."
Introduction
The Catalyst Fund mobilizes new funding and capacity building resources for reproductive
justice (RJ) organizations in the U.S. Catalyst supports groups led by and for people who
experience the greatest reproductive health disparities and are organizing around RJ issues at
the grassroots level in their communities. Catalyst’s intended long-term impact is that all
people have the economic, social, and political power and resources to make healthy decisions
about their gender, bodies, sexuality, and reproduction for themselves, their families, and their
communities. (See Groundswell Fund’s Theory of Change in Appendix.)
Developed by the Women of Color Working Group of the Funders Network on Population,
Reproductive Health and Rights in 2006 and housed at Groundswell Fund, Catalyst embodies a
commitment to supporting an RJ movement led by women of color, low-income women, and
transgender and gender non-conforming people. In 2015, Groundswell is bringing its
Reproductive Justice Fund grantees — leaders in organizing and policy advocacy by low-income,
young, and immigrant women; women of color; and LGBTQ individuals — into the Catalyst
Fund, combining the strength of 39 organizations into one unified initiative.1
Evaluation is an integral part of the Catalyst Fund. Every year, Groundswell contracts with
Korwin Consulting to evaluate whether and to what extent the Catalyst Fund reaches its goal of
expanding funding and capacity building resources to RJ groups that are advancing policy,
systems, and cultural change. This year’s evaluation draws primarily from the qualitative and
quantitative data reported in Groundswell’s newly-designed online Grantee Impact Evaluation,
completed by all Catalyst and RJ Fund grantees in 2014.
A key goal of the Catalyst evaluation is to inform the field of RJ activists, funders, and other
current and potential stakeholders. Toward that end, this evaluation presents narratives
describing the work of many of the grantees and provides context for this work with select data
about the grantee cohort as a whole. In addition, to make it easy for readers to learn more
about the featured organizations, the first time each grantee’s name appears in electronic
versions of this report, it is linked to an online site with further details about that organization’s
work.
Building the Base

At the heart of the Catalyst Fund is the belief that an effective, sustainable RJ movement starts
with community-led organizations having the capacity to organize a strong, diverse, grassroots
base to join and lead campaigns, direct action protests, and policy change efforts.2 The
following stories illustrate how Catalyst grantees are building a base for RJ in their
communities.
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In 2014, Groundswell Fund engaged in a process to articulate its ongoing vision and work. One result of this process was the
merger of the Catalyst and Reproductive Justice Funds. Please contact adelvalle@groundswellfund.org for more information.
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Groundswell’s Catalyst funds are not used to support grassroots or direct lobbying. Grantees raise funds for grassroots
lobbying from sources other than Catalyst.
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Leadership Opportunities and Voter Engagement Build a Broader Base
W V FREE leads education and advocacy campaigns for reproductive health, rights,
and justice throughout West Virginia. In 2014, the organization’s field organizer and
interns engaged young activists at college campuses all over the state, including West
Virginia University, Marshall University, West Virginia State University, and others. In
partnership with Groundswell's Integrated Voter Engagement (IVE) initiative, WV FREE
utilized the Voter Activation Network (VAN) to engage voters in underrepresented
populations, mainly young women, low-income women, and women of color. Engaging
in door-to-door canvassing and phone banking allowed the organization to expand its
base by increasing its visibility, engaging new supporters, and providing leadership
opportunities for canvassers.
Base supporters are individuals who are consistently engaged in an organization’s activities.
Catalyst grantees reported a total of 82,800 base supporters in 2014; 78% of grantees
increased the diversity of their base. The charts below show the percentage of Catalyst
grantees who mobilize various constituencies.
As in previous Catalyst years, the

greatest proportion of grantees
count individuals of African
descent and Latinas among their
primary constituencies.
While grantees have always had a focus on
engaging low-income individuals, there was
a marked shift toward engaging youth in
2014. More than half (56%) counted youth
among their primary constituencies, as
compared with 34% of grantees in 2013.
There was a similar growth in grantees
engaging teens.
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Young Woman Discovers an Affinity for RJ Activism
C entered in New York City’s large South Asian community, Sakhi for South Asian
Women provides safe spaces and builds community activism to address gender-
based violence and oppression and promote RJ, economic empowerment, and
immigration policy reform. By focusing on multiple overlapping issues affecting the
community, Sakhi has been able to recruit new supporters and deepen their
engagement over time. For instance, they explain, “We had an intern who started to
work with us this past year. She is an MPH candidate, and she came to Sakhi because
she wanted to work at the intersection of violence and health and help us in our service
delivery, specifically addressing violence against women and its resultant mental and
physical health repercussions. After working with us, she discovered that she loves
reproductive justice. She joined in our community mobilizing work where we talk about
body integrity, gender, and our community's ideals of what girlhood and womanhood
are. Because of her commitment, we hired her as our Women's Health Initiative Fellow,
where she’ll be taking over leadership of our reproductive justice work.”
Catalyst grantees focus on a wide range of issues of concern in their communities. This table
shows the issues around which grantees say they mobilize the greatest numbers of constituents
and the engagement strategies that are most often used to attract and engage base supporters.
Leading Issues Top Engagement Strategies
 Abortion access (49%)  Alliance building/Networking/Coalition
 Birth control access (49%) building (95%)
 Access to other reproductive health  Community organizing (95%)
services (64%)  Leadership development (92%)
 Civil rights/Racial justice (49%)  Advocacy/Public policy (90%)
 LGBTQ rights (46%)  Communications: Social media* (85%)
 Criminal justice/Prison-industrial complex  Skill building/training (77%)
reform (38%)  Communications: Online media* (85%)
 Domestic violence/Intimate partner  Movement building (74%)
violence/Gender-based violence (36%)  Communications: Traditional media (62%)
 Comprehensive sex education (33%)
*Social media (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest); online media (e.g., online news outlet articles, blogs, websites)
Each year, a large majority of grantees addresses “traditional” reproductive rights and health
issues (RR/RH). While the proportion who included at least one “traditional” RR/RH issue in
their work in 2014 (85%) nearly matched those doing so (86%) in 2013, larger proportions of
grantees worked to advance, preserve, or
restore abortion and birth control access in
2014 than in the preceding year. The
adjacent bar chart shows the proportion of
grantees addressing each traditional RR/RH
issue. (Please note that the table above
reports the percentage of groups identifying
certain issues as their primary focus, while
the chart at right simply tracks those
reporting they worked on certain RR/RH
issues. Because of this, the numbers differ.)
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“An organized, vibrant, and sustained grassroots base is the engine of any
social justice movement."
Organizing in Diverse Communities

Catalyst grantees use community organizing to support their constituents in working toward
policy and systems change. Rooted in their communities, these organizations respond to the
needs and concerns of their constituents as they inspire them to mobilize around the RJ issues
that impact their lives. The following story clusters illustrate how grantees are organizing three
distinct constituencies. While these accounts are not intended to represent the work of every
organization engaging these constituencies, they provide valuable insight into how grantees
have been successful in each context.
RAISING THE VOICES OF YOUNG PEOPLE OF COLOR

Young Women United (YWU) brings a FIERCE builds leadership and power Media Literacy Project (MLP) empowers
youth voice and gender focus to all its among LGBTQ youth of color in NYC. young women with media literacy and
work. In 2014, YWU shared writing and Members of the youth-led Organizing production skills and trains organizations
visual art by women advocating to Committee conducted campaigns and youth about connections between
reframe addiction as a health issue, not utilizing awareness-building and media and social justice issues. MLP held
a crime. The group worked with LGBTQ advocacy. They met with elected and a youth forum with local and national
youth to analyze CDC data to identify non-elected officials about the need to media makers and decision makers on
healthcare access gaps for this end discriminatory policing practices net neutrality and helped pass a city
population. YWU also led a policy targeting LGBTQ youth; communities of resolution calling for fair and accurate
campaign to increase access to high color; and homeless, low-income, and media representation of marginalized
school equivalency diplomas in NM. immigrant communities. groups.
Engagement Strategies: Leadership Engagement Strategies: Youth-led Engagement Strategies: Local and
development, organizing through art, campaigns, leadership development, online forums, canvassing, workshops,
and voter engagement. art, social media, rallies, press media creation, coalition building, and
Outreach/Education Strategies: Social conferences, participatory action leadership development.
media, traditional media (including research, and op-eds.
Outreach/Education Strategies: Blogs,
regional and national TV in Spanish Outreach/Education Strategies: Teach- social media, phone calls, email,
and English and online news outlets), ins, policy education workshops/events, meetings with elected officials and
and strategic partnerships to target lobby days, blogs, and social media. partner organizations, and trainings and
specific audiences. community events.
SUPPORTING ACTIVISTS IN RURAL COMMUNITIES

The Southern Rural Black Women’s ACT for Women and Girls is based in The Native American Community Board
Initiative (SRBWI) engages women and California’s Central Valley (although it (NACB) trains young women in SD, NM,
young women in AL, GA, and MS to works beyond the region), where OK, and MN to mobilize their
combat housing, health, economic, immigration, teen pregnancy, and communities to demand the right to
and reproductive injustices. SRBWI emergency contraception (EC) are over-the-counter access to Plan B (EC)
supported the women’s decision to top concerns. ACT supports young through the Indian Health Service (IHS).
organize for quality education and women organizing to enact and Staff and activists educated policy
access to health care, including pre- implement RJ policies and helps teen makers, framing Plan B denial as a
and postnatal care, in the face of mothers overcome barriers and bias. human rights violation for sexual assault
criminal charges made against Engagement Strategies: Leadership, and DV survivors.
women as a result of infant mortality. research, and public speaking training Engagement Strategies: Workshops,
Engagement Strategies: Skill-building, and opportunities; Spanish-language roundtables, social media, radio,
leadership training, and connections organizing; and legislative visits. conference calls, and educational
to resources and intergenerational ties. Outreach/Education: Twitter chats, materials.
Outreach/Education Strategies: Public Instagram, Facebook, memes, videos, Outreach/Education Strategies:
speaking events, community members voter engagement, a “report card” on Presentations, conducting and
hosting ACA navigators, rallies, and pharmacies providing EC access, and producing a report card of survey results
signature drives for policy change. using immigration justice as an entry of IHS compliance, and dialogue with
point to RJ issues. tribal leaders who have a direct
relationship with the U.S. government.
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How important are different forms of media in
organizing young or rural constituencies?
The combination of traditional and online/social
media cited in the accounts of organizing young
and rural constituencies above mirror what the
full Catalyst cohort reports about the use of media
in their work: Although almost all grantees see a
growing need to build visibility through social and
online media, traditional media remain important
for reaching constituencies, the general public,
and decision makers. 28% of grantees also selected “Other” forms of media, including:
Tumblr, direct mail, email, LinkedIn, BuzzFeed, and foreign media.
The adjacent chart shows the proportion of
grantees who tracked “earned media,” that is, media coverage of them but not generated by them, in
various platforms. The green bars show the percentages of grantees who highlighted traditional media
coverage earned in 2014.
As the accounts below show, grantees mobilizing incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals
used various media as well as offering legal aid and training to engage them in organizing or advocacy.
ENGAGING INCARCERATED AND FORMERLY INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS

In 2014, Catalyst grantee Chicago Legal Advocacy for Incarcerated Mothers (CLAIM) merged with Cabrini Green Legal Aid
(CGLA) to ensure its long-term sustainability as a program. CLAIM provides legal aid for incarcerated women and leadership
and skill development to engage formerly incarcerated women as advocates for policies that promote mother-child
bonding, community alternatives to prison, and the passage and implementation of anti-shackling laws for prisoners in labor.
Engagement: CLAIM’s recovery and transition programs, the Visible Voices peer empowerment group, and word-of-mouth.
Outreach/Education: Lobby days, rallies, voter registration, media (TV, radio, online news), online advocacy, and legislative
testimony to educate the public and policy makers and build support for its constituents’ priority issues.
The Correctional Association (the CA) conducts prison monitoring, organizing, and advocacy throughout the state of NY.
The CA offers training in public speaking and advocacy skills to youth, formerly incarcerated adults, their families, and
communities in areas most affected by mass incarceration. Priority issues are improving conditions in prisons and juvenile
facilities, ending shackling of pregnant women, and juvenile justice system reform.
Engagement: Visits to public housing, participation in community events, lobby days, soliciting anonymous testimony on
policies/practices from incarcerated women, and engaging women referred for services from other organizations.
Outreach/Education: Strategies listed above, as well as social media about activities, and online campaigns.
Legal Services for Prisoners with Children (LSPC) supports incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals and their loved
ones in effective advocacy to restore family rights, including ending shackling of pregnant women, improved health care
for pregnant and parenting women and girls in custody, restoring welfare/food stamps to those with drug felony
convictions, and expanding a program allowing incarcerated parents to live in their communities with or near their children.
Engagement: Family law training for incarcerated mothers, legal manuals, policy advocacy training for formerly
incarcerated people and families with incarcerated loved ones, and advocacy days.
Outreach/Education: Print/online media, prisoner correspondence, and a report on gaps in anti-shackling law compliance.
Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP) engages transgender and gender non-conforming individuals who are incarcerated,
formerly incarcerated, low-income, immigrant, and/or of people of color in identifying and changing institutional policies/
practices that contribute to poverty, incarceration, and lack of access to healthcare, work, and education.
Engagement: Prisoner Advisory Committee on policy issues, policy advocacy teams, press conferences, lobbying, rallies,
petitions.
Outreach/Education: Mailed materials to prisoners, blog, Twitter, newsletter, legal strategies, national trainings, and public
education through trainings and online media.
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Map of 2014 Catalyst Grantees’ Organizing Efforts
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Geographic Focus: Working in the South
Since 2012, Groundswell Fund has made
increasing its support of RJ work in the South These 14 Catalyst grantees worked in Southern states:
a priority. In 2013, Groundswell engaged in a  International Indian Treaty Council
 Kentucky Health Justice Initiative
year-long funding partnership with Project  Mississippi in Action*
South, an Atlanta-based movement-building  National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum
organization with deep ties to grassroots  National Advocates for Pregnant Women
organizing efforts led by people of color  National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health*
across the region. Project South proposed a  Project South*
 Southern Rural Black Women’s Initiative*
process wherein a cohort of Southern RJ
 Raising Women’s Voices
organizations would be given small grants  SisterSong*
and convened throughout 2014.  SPARK*
 URGE: Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity
Through two convenings in 2014, Southern RJ  Women With a Vision*
organizations came together to identify the  WV FREE
vision and potential for strategic *Asterisks indicate organizations in Groundswell’s
collaborations within the RJ movement in the Southern RJ Cohort.
South. Groundswell’s Southern RJ Cohort
grantees provided leadership on a number of key reproductive justice fights within the region
and nationally, including advocacy for Medicaid expansion (GA, MS), fighting against
restrictions around abortion (FL, LA), and fighting for expansion of childcare subsidies (GA).
Reflections on Building and Organizing the Base

SUCCESSFUL STRATEGIES FOR THE FIELD RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FUNDING PARTNERS
Grantee strategies with positive results: Grantees find it most helpful when funders:
 Connecting with other organizations to share  Understand that sustainable organizing
strategies, coordinate efforts and resources, and requires a commitment to supporting
increase reach into diverse communities. communities in identifying the linked issues that
 Using multiple strategies to educate and they identify as key to achieving RJ.
engage diverse sectors within their base,  Are transparent about grantmaking intentions,
including in-person contact, traditional media, so organizations know well in advance what
and/or innovative educational social media resources will be available as they make plans
campaigns. for programs and personnel.
 Meeting immediate service and skill- Grantees say they could be more effective with:
development needs of their base before and/or
 Grants to hire fund development and
in conjunction with engaging them as organizers
operations staff, which would enable other
and activists. staff to focus on outreach and engagement.
 With immigrant communities, learning about
 Multi-year and general operating support from
their experience with the policy process in their
more funders so grantees can build their
native country, and whether it was dangerous or
infrastructure, invest in technology that would
corrupt enough to leave them apathetic about
support tracking and mobilizing their base,
participating.
and/or bring projects to scale.
 Finding common ground to build a trusting
relationship as a basis for talking about RJ.
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“Resourcing those who suffer the greatest reproductive injustices to transform
the systems that impact their lives is the fastest way to win RJ for all people."
Strengthening Leadership
The Catalyst Fund seeks to strengthen a community-led RJ movement by investing in building
leadership capacity among women of color, low-income women, young women, and LGBTQ
individuals in the U.S.
From a Chance Encounter to Embracing a Public Role
M arisol was a domestic worker when she joined the Texas Latina Advocacy Network
(TX LAN) of the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health (NLIRH) to work on
immigration reform after her husband was deported. She was cleaning a house at which
the TX LAN was hosting a community meeting when an NLIRH field coordinator
encouraged her to participate. That first meeting in 2013 resonated for her, and she has
become an increasingly active member of the LAN ever since. Marisol has participated
in monthly community meetings, marches, rallies, and other actions. She has become
particularly involved in NLIRH's efforts to advance access to reproductive healthcare
services. Over the past year, Marisol has spoken with local policymakers, participated in
radio interviews about a range of RJ issues, and spoken to an audience of 150 people at
the launch of NLIRH’s Nuestro Texas campaign, which highlights the lack of access to
reproductive health care in the Lower Rio Grande Valley.
How can we measure leadership growth?

In 2014, Groundswell developed a “leadership LEVEL 1 — MOST ENGAGED LEADER
ladder” for use in its Integrated Voter Engagement Run for office; serve in a policy-making role, on an
ally’s board, or as a spokesperson for RJ
initiative and the new Grantee Impact Evaluation.
The ladder sheds light on how, and to what extent, 36 (92 %) of grantees had Level 1 leaders.
grantees are supporting their constituents in There were 746 Level 1 leaders in 2014.
building their own and the RJ movement’s power.
LEVEL 2 — VERY ENGAGED LEADER
The chart to the right includes definitions of the
Attend trainings, engage in policy advocacy,
four leadership levels, the number and percentage represent the organization with allies, lead
of grantees reporting supporters at each level, and meetings with base
the total number of constituents at each level. 38 (97%) of grantees had very engaged
Grantees reported a combined total of 61,551 leaders, with a total of 3,197 in 2014.
activists within the four leadership levels in 2014.
The numbers they provided will serve as a baseline LEVEL 3 — ENGAGED LEADER
in future years’ evaluations. Recruit others to join or donate, canvass, attend
events, make calls/send emails to gain support for
While building the number of leaders is a significant organization
goal, Catalyst grantees also highlight the 37 (95%) of grantees had engaged leaders,
importance of effective leadership development in with a total of 5,599 in 2014.
numbers appropriate to each organization’s
capacity, and the need for organizations to LEVEL 4 — SOLID ACTIVIST
determine the most effective balance of leadership Give the organization contact information, take
action from home, or make a donation
development and complementary strategies in their
work to advance the RJ movement. 37 (95%) of grantees had solid activists, with
a total of 52,009 in 2014.
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From Volunteer to Board Member
M eredith of Kentucky Health Justice Network (KHJN) first became involved as a

volunteer driver on KHJN’s practical support abortion fund. A couple of months
later, she helped plan a fundraiser for KHJN and the abortion fund. She then proposed
an RJ book club to the board, which was approved, and she volunteered to co-facilitate
and design RJ education sessions. “Then,” Meredith writes in KHJN’s Catalyst report, “I
applied and was accepted to be on the board! My role has progressed from small-time
abortion access volunteer to engaged member who works on education, trans health,
and — still — abortion access.”
Some Catalyst grantees, like NLIRH, have formal leadership development structures. Many,
such as KHJN, offer opportunities in a less formal manner, and some offer a semi-structured set
of leadership development activities that support activists in becoming increasingly capable RJ
leaders. For instance, Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights
(COLOR) offers a leadership and development program for Latina youth with a curriculum that
includes public speaking, campaign building, fundraising, lobbying, blogging, and more for ages
1621; a group for older Latinas focusing on youth sexual health and other building blocks for
healthy lives; and a project co-created by youth and COLOR staff to develop innovative online
and communications strategies to foster youth advocacy. COLOR reports that the activists are
progressing along a continuum of increasing skills and leadership opportunities.
ICAH’s story below provides another example of a semi-structured, tiered model for moving
individuals into greater leadership capacity.
Youth Training Participant becomes Adult Ally
T he Illinois Coalition for Adolescent Health (ICAH) uses a model of “cascading levels of
leadership” in their youth development work. To illustrate, they describe a young
woman, Erica, who began as a participant in ICAH’s School for Justice, where she
received training and skill-building in youth and sexual health, rights, and identities. A
year later, she led workshops as a peer educator in schools and after-school programs
and helped develop and implement a participatory action youth research project on
given and chosen families. The following year, she co-led workshops for new members of
ICAH youth programs and helped manage campaigns and projects. Now an adult, Erica
participates in ICAH’s Family Network, as ICAH helps to place her in an educator position
at Planned Parenthood.
Reflections on Building Leadership Capacity

 Offering a variety of ways for constituents to  Provide unrestricted/general operating
become involved in the organization’s work. funding so that small RJ organizations can
 Offering training and opportunities in the offer appropriate and even competitive
language spoken by potential leaders. compensation to activists for their time and
 Fostering cross-generational and staff-to- energy.
volunteer mentoring. Grantees say they could be more effective with:
 Keeping/developing an up-to-date strategic  Grants for technology to track whether and
plan. how constituents move along a leadership
 Mapping a leadership pipeline and strategies for pipeline within the organization’s programs
advancing activists along that pipeline. and activities.
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“A strong reproductive justice movement requires transformational alliances,
with aligned values and collaboration on multiple campaigns over time.”
Leveraging Power with Allies

Catalyst grantees forge alliances with others across the spectrum of RJ and intersecting issues and
movements. The importance of this alliance building was affirmed in a 2010 study of social justice
movements, which concludes that intersectional alliances of progressive, grassroots social justice
organizations are critical to “scale up power and impact.”3
In 2014, grantees partnered with 3,689 allies. The
LEVEL 1 — VERY STRONG ALLY/
alliance ladder, explanations of each level, and
COLLABORATIVE PARTNER
numbers of allies on the right present a snapshot Alliance maintained over multiple campaigns;
of how these allies of Catalyst grantees support joint plans/programs; share resources
their work. 39 (100 %) of organizations had Level 1 allies,
with a total of 493 Level 1 allies in 2014.
An Alliance in Outreach and Messaging
T he Reproductive Justice Collective (RJC) in

Milwaukee forged an alliance with Citizen
Action of Wisconsin, a coalition whose mission
LEVEL 2 — STRONG ALLY
Share policy objectives; joint campaigns and
encompasses social, economic, and environmental meetings with policy makers; activists attend joint
justice. Citizen Action supported RJC’s Medicaid events; shared messaging; represent each other
expansion work. RJC’s leadership explains, “As a on issues with other allies
larger organization, Citizen Action organizes press 38 (97%) of organizations had Level 2 allies,
events, all of which we attend and speak at. They with a total of 721 in 2014.
inform us about all legislative committee hearings
related to Medicaid. We then coordinate our roles LEVEL 3 — ALLY
and strategies about messaging the issue. We have Work in loose coalition or in an ad hoc manner on
used their infographics to illustrate the issue and issues or campaigns; help recruit activists to send
jointly developed a video on Medicaid cuts. We emails or make calls, attend events, or canvass
collaborated on other actions leading up to a fall 39 (100%) of organizations had Level 3 allies,
Medicaid ballot referendum. RJC and Citizen
with a total of 965 in 2014.
Action agreed to not overlap wards during our
door-to-door outreach. That way, we were able to
increase the number of voters reached.” LEVEL 4 — SUPPORTIVE RELATIONSHIP
Work with organization on issues or campaigns or
recruit activists in a one-off, tactical way; sign
Allies who support Catalyst grantees’ work address petitions/endorse statements
a wide range of social justice issues. The two charts 39 (100%) of organizations had Level 4 allies,
on the following page show allies’ issue areas, with with a total of 1,510 in 2014.
the green bars highlighting those listed by more
than 25% of grantees. As the right-hand chart
shows, the categories of allies Catalyst grantees support most are closely aligned with the allies
who support them.
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M. Pastor, R. Ito, R. Ortiz (2010). Connecting at the Crossroads: Alliance Building and Social Change in Tough
Times.
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Abbreviations in charts:
CJ=criminal justice
DV=domestic violence
IPV=intimate partner violence
A large majority (89%) of Catalyst grantees work in alliances that include coordination between
local, state, and national groups. The fact that so many Catalyst grantees have a place in larger
alliances affirms Groundswell’s commitment to building the capacity of these groups, so that
locally-based, WOC-led groups can influence broader conversations.
An Alliance with Mutual Benefits
F orward Together (FT) has forged alliances with over 150 organizations addressing several
issue areas and working at local, state, and federal levels. Its story of a local alliance
illustrates how a strategic partnership can leverage the strengths of both groups. Three years
ago, FT led a participatory research project with Oakland (CA) Unified School District youth
which revealed overwhelming support for comprehensive sex education inclusive of and
relevant to LGBTQ students, students with disabilities, and English language learner students.
In 2014, FT joined forces with Health Initiatives for Youth (HIFY) to deepen FT’s capacity to
engage LGBTQ youth. HIFY had successfully advocated for an LGBTQ-inclusive sex
education program for San Francisco high schools. HIFY shared the details of that campaign
to help FT identify the most effective strategy for improving sex education in Oakland high
schools. The alliance between HIFY and FT has increased both organizations’ reach and
effectiveness. For instance:
 HIFY helped FT to make its program more inclusive of queer and transgender students.
 FT worked with HIFY to co-sponsor a mixer following the Youth Empowerment Summit in
June 2014, which included space for facilitated conversations about gender and
sexuality and provided an outreach opportunity for the FT Youth program.
 HIFY's work has been a valuable model for FT's sex education campaign in Oakland,
especially in ensuring that the needs of queer and transgender youth remain at the
center of its advocacy efforts.
Reflections on Building Strategic Alliances

 Establishing a clear structure for ally  Offer to connect grantees to other organizations who
engagement and criteria for may become new allies — as opposed to mandating an
determining whether an alliance is in introduction or collaboration, which is not advised.
the grantee’s best interest.  Leverage relationships to connect grantees with funders
 Increasing visibility, e.g., via media who fund cross-issue work and alliance-building.
and campaigns, which leads new Grantees say they could be more effective with:
allies to seek them out.
 Grants to build capacity to engage in alliance-building.
 Leveraging ally relationships to
 More opportunities to tell funders how RJ intersects with
connect with new potential allies.
environmental justice, low-wage worker rights, DV,
media justice, and other issues and movements.
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“We envision a reproductive justice movement whose grassroots leadership
and base receive the resources necessary to become powerful enough to win
meaningful systems and policy change.”
Effecting Change
The Catalyst Fund supports organizations to build community power in the democratic process,
shape public narratives about RJ, and deepen their capacity to win lasting systems change.
Grantees’ strategies reflect differences in their communities’ relationships with the systems
and governing structures that have the most influence over policies that impact their lives.
Speaking up for Women in the Military Applying International Frameworks
Founded by women military veterans, Service The International Indian Treaty Council (IITC)
Women’s Action Network (SWAN) advocates builds the capacity of Indigenous women
for RJ and economic justice/equal opportunity across six U.S. states and Mexico to defend the
on behalf of active military personnel who are reproductive health of Indigenous women,
prohibited by law from expressing opinions girls, and future generations by calling
while in uniform. Their tactics include testifying attention to environmental contamination
before Congress, advising the White House resulting from toxic substances and extreme
and United Nations, public presentations, and energy development. Often working in
speaking to the media about challenges partnership with Catalyst grantee Alaska
faced by military women. In 2014, staff, fellows, Community Action on Toxics (ACAT), IITC calls
and interns used their first-hand knowledge of attention to RJ and environmental justice
military culture and hierarchical structure to violations of international chemical treaties.
build relationships with decision makers and IITC’s work in 2014 resulted in a UN Committee
influencers and craft policy language and on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
messaging that led to new health care (CERD) recommendation to the U.S.
provisions and sexual assault-related reforms in government to bring its toxics laws in alignment
the 2015 National Defense Authorization Act. with international human rights standards.
Policy Advocacy
Advocating for policy change involves many steps and complementary strategies. It requires
raising awareness of an issue, knowing whom to cultivate as allies, and how to work within a
system or culture while motivating those with power to champion change. While the defensive
action of blocking a harmful policy may take place within the course of a few months, new,
proactive policies are often the culmination of years of work and multiple participants in the
process.
As the adjacent chart shows,
Catalyst grantees engaged in
multiple policy advocacy
activities to advance RJ,
including the passage and
implementation of legislative
and institutional policies, voter
education, and blocking
policies that diminish RJ.
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In 2014, Catalyst grantees saw their policy change efforts yield at least 58 new and 29 blocked
policies. The full policy list is in the Appendix. These policies advance RJ by addressing:
 Abortion access  Other parenting rights, including
 Reproductive health care access, immigration policy
including contraception/family  Environmental justice
planning  Education, employment, and access to
 Other health care and service access other services
 Comprehensive sex education  Media justice
 Criminal justice/Prison industrial  Military system justice
complex change
Twenty-four grantees (62%) reported policy wins, in the form of policies either passed or
blocked. Others reported policy work that is still in progress or policy losses that resulted in
important lessons learned and a more mobilized and motivated base. The case studies that
follow show how three grantees used multiple strategies to achieve policy gains in 2014.
Policy Advocacy and Implementation/Public Education/Informing the Field
R aising Women's Voices (RWV) works to ensure that implementation of the Affordable
Care Act provides women with the opportunity to enroll in health coverage that is
affordable, nondiscriminatory, and meets their needs for comprehensive reproductive health
services. In 2014, the first full year of operations for ACA marketplaces, RWV’s regional
coordinators in 26 states advocated for enrollment practices
that would be relevant and accessible to women of color, RWV co-founder Lois Uttley
immigrant and low-income women, and LGBTQ individuals. For observes, “Raising Women’s
example, regional coordinators convinced marketplaces to Voices’ regional coordinators in
add “help text” explaining why the enrollment application many states have won seats at
asked whether a woman is pregnant (to determine potential the table in ACA decision-
eligibility for Medicaid), and one coordinator got the term making in their home states,
“unborn children” removed from the help text in her state. and often are the only
During ACA open enrollment periods, RWV conducted social reproductive justice advocates
media and grassroots outreach campaigns targeting women in these discussions.”
of color and low-income women with messages about their
coverage options. The coordinator in Washington state developed materials to reach
immigrant women, particularly those afraid that applying for coverage might expose
undocumented members of their mixed-status family. Regional coordinators gave more
than 120 presentations to uninsured women and LGBTQ people, and tabled at more
than 130 outreach events. In November, RWV published a report on their learnings, The
Personal Touch: Reaching and Enrolling Uninsured Women and LGBT People.
With a staff of 20 and a budget under $900K, the RWV national coordinating team and
state-based coordinators were active in advocacy campaigns in 2014 that resulted in:
 Ensuring that health insurance marketplaces in 18 states and D.C. do not have policies
barring or restricting insurers from offering abortion coverage, and that at least eight
states have implemented the Nelson abortion segregation payment rule in a manner
that is least burdensome to enrollees and insurers.
 Helping over two million additional uninsured women become eligible for coverage
through Medicaid expansion in several states that had been resisting it.
 Issuance of federal regulations to allow states to offer the basic health coverage option
(BHP) to low-wage workers who are above the expanded Medicaid eligibility limit but
cannot afford to purchase private health insurance.
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 Approval of the BHP option by two states (MN and NY) so far.
 Adoption of key non-discrimination policies for state health marketplaces, including bans
on discriminating against LGBTQ people. In December, NY became the eighth state to
bar insurers from excluding coverage of transgender services, due to an RWV’s
coordinator’s leadership of an LGBTQ task force.
Regional coordinators engaged their bases through social media, community meetings,
rallies, and other activities. RWV expanded its state network in 2014 to include women of
color-led organizations that work with women living with HIV/AIDS in the South. RWV and
regional coordinators worked hard to build relationships with state exchange officials
and contractors as well as state and federal policymakers to turn them into champions
for RWV’s issues.
Confronting Harmful Policies and Trends/Influencing the Conversation
N ational Advocates for Pregnant Women (NAPW) works to secure the human rights,
health, and welfare of all women, particularly pregnant and parenting women, low-
income women, women of color, and drug-using women, who are most vulnerable to
state control and punishment. With a budget of $850K, NAPW’s staff of seven leverages
allies across numerous social justice movements and mobilizes local alliances,
undergraduate and post-graduate students, and formerly incarcerated people as
interns and activists to organize against policy threats in 14 states. These include laws and
measures that would deprive pregnant women of their civil and human rights.
NAPW participated in successful campaigns that resulted in:
 Blocking a bill in South Carolina that would allow a pregnant woman to use
physical force or deadly physical force against another person to protect her
unborn child. (Women already have this right in the state, without language that
establishes fetal personhood.)
 Blocking bills in Rhode Island and Virginia
prohibiting abortion based on the fetus’s gender. As NAPW’s Executive Director Lynn
(This is an approach based on an Paltrow explains in an op-ed published
unsubstantiated claim that women in certain in the New York Times, “If we want to
immigrant communities in the U.S. are engaging end unjust and inhumane affects and
in this practice.) forced interventions on pregnant
 Blocking so-called “personhood” amendments women, we need to stop focusing only
to Colorado’s and North Dakota’s state on the abortion issue and start working
constitutions. to protect the personhood of pregnant
 Successfully petitioning the Federal Drug women. We should be able to work
Administration to remove the phrase “unborn across the spectrum of opinion about
baby” from labeling rules. abortion and unite in the defense of
 Influencing the head of the Office of National one basic principle: that at no point in
Drug Control Policy to speak in opposition to her pregnancy should a woman lose
arrests of pregnant women and to take other her civil and human rights.”
steps that favor treatment over punishment for
people who are drug-dependent or addicted.
In addition to its direct policy advocacy work, NAPW uses large-scale media coverage
(traditional, online, and social) to draw attention to the connections between a “war on
drugs” that is used to justify special penalties for women who become pregnant and use
certain drugs, mass incarceration of women of color, and anti-abortion policies. They are
influencing the conversation about whose “personhood” is under attack: a NAPW-
authored New York Times op-ed, “Pregnant, and No Civil Rights” reached millions of
people and was the most emailed, tweeted, and Facebook-shared item during the
weekend of its release and much of the week following its publication.
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NAPW’s messaging and communications strategies adhere to an important lesson
learned from what was won and lost in 2014: Paltrow explains, “When we can make
clear that a measure will hurt all pregnant women, we can win and keep those measures
from becoming the law. When attacks on abortion are treated only as attacks on that
one procedure and not the status of all women, we will continue to lose ground.”
Building RJ through the Lens of Family Wellness in Illinois
E verThrive Illinois aims to improve the health of women and families through policies
supportive of reproductive equity and access to quality contraception,
comprehensive sex education, and general health care services. With a budget of $2.3M
and a staff of 19, EverThrive engages grassroots community members, policy makers, and
thought leaders through convenings, traditional and social media, and policy advocacy.
In 2014, EverThrive shared information with a broad range of audiences via social media,
online blogs, media interviews, and e-mail action alerts about how to get engaged in its
priority policy issues. These stakeholders, in turn, took action and contacted their legislators or
shared relevant articles and messages with their online networks. EverThrive’s leadership
notes that its base was also mobilized into action by the unfavorable Hobby Lobby ruling.
EverThrive, its community members, and allies were active in the following successful
efforts to change policies and raise awareness of the importance of RJ in 2014:
 A law to restore previously cut funds to the Illinois Medicaid Program.
 A law providing reasonable accommodations for pregnant women or those who
have just given birth.
 The Transparency and Medical Exemptions EverThrive’s Project Director Jennifer Epstein
Process Act, which requires private insurers explains how the organization builds
to make information about benefits relationships with policy makers: “We host bi-
available on their company website and annual educational events for state legislators
on the healthcare marketplace website. interested in improving health equity to reduce
 A law ensuring that minors living apart from the number of babies born prematurely every
their guardians who access school health year in Illinois. This is a great way for the
centers will not experience interference in organization to feature the work we are doing
access to abortion, birth control, or sexual toward improving population health through
health services. reproductive rights advocacy as well as
 An advisory referendum instructing the improving health systems that care for
state legislature to ensure that health premature infants. We also invite legislators to
insurance plans that include prescription two events each year to show gratitude for
drugs also cover prescription birth control. continued collaboration and to highlight the
 An advisory referendum instructing the successes of our initiatives. This is a great
state legislature to raise the minimum wage opportunity to gather champions in maternal
to $10/hour. and child health from around the state to
EverThrive also played a role in ensuring the recognize their work in achieving health
effective implementation of the ACA for women equity.
in their base. After a workshop led by the
organization to train health care marketplace navigators, one participant explained that
she was struggling to get access to birth control benefits as guaranteed by the law, as
were her coworkers and many of her clients. The navigator was enthusiastic about the
work that EverThrive was doing on this issue and became an important resource for
identifying consumers and cataloging stories to be used by EverThrive in its advocacy
efforts.
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Policy Maker Relationships
Almost all Catalyst grantees — whether they experienced policy wins in 2014 or not — report
that they have forged relationships with policy makers at the federal, state and/or local levels.
They cultivated relationships with as many as 3,667 policy makers that are important to their
advocacy goals. The table below* shows how Groundswell defines each of five levels of
relationship, from “champion” to “neutralized opposition.”
LEVEL 1 — CHAMPION: Seeks your advice in drafting policies and

getting support; introduces your legislation; talks with colleagues and FEDERAL STATE LOCAL
press about you/your policies proactively and consistently.
12 26 17
# AND % OF GRANTEES WITH RELATIONSHIPS AT THIS LEVEL
(31%) (67%) (44%)
TOTAL # OF RELATIONSHIPS AT THIS LEVEL 66 240 151
LEVEL 2 — ADVOCATE: Occasionally introduces/consistently co-

sponsors policies supporting your issues; attends your events regularly; FEDERAL STATE LOCAL
lobbies on your behalf; meets with you to discuss/develop policy.
13 24 17
(33%) (62%) (44%)
LEVEL 3 — SUPPORTER: Occasionally co-sponsors or supports

policies; has over a 50% voting record on your issues; occasionally FEDERAL STATE LOCAL
attends events to show support.
17 26 19
(44%) (67%) (49%)
LEVEL 4 — FRIENDLY/PERSUADABLE: Policy maker and/or staff

occasionally returns calls/meets with your organization’s leadership and FEDERAL STATE LOCAL
constituents.
13 24 18
(33%) (62%) (46%)
LEVEL 5 — NEUTRALIZED OPPOSITION: Policy maker is convinced

FEDERAL STATE LOCAL
by your organization to not oppose policies that you are advocating for.
6 11 3
(15%) (28%) (8%)
*The numbers reported in this table will serve as a baseline for future years’ evaluations.
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Do grantees reporting policy wins differ from the rest of the cohort?
Grantees reporting policy wins have many similar characteristics to those who do not. They
range in budget from under $200K to over $2M, with as few as three and as many as 20 paid
staff, and their numbers of Level 1 policy maker relationships are comparable to the rest of the
Catalyst cohort.
However, grantees with policy wins
in 2014 stand out from the rest of
the Catalyst cohort in the high
proportion that are working at all
three levels of government: local,
state, and national: 83% as compared
with 33% of the remaining Catalyst
grantees. Even so, of 87 policy wins,
80 (92%) were at the state and local
level. It is too soon to know whether
working at multiple levels increases
the chances for policy wins, or
whether other factors contribute
more. Comparisons across years may
provide more insight into key factors
supporting advocacy success.
Reflections on Effecting Change

 Partnering with organizations with deep local  Remember that policy change takes time, and
roots to broaden reach for advocacy commit to multi-year funding.
campaigns.  Provide funding for general operating support,
 Implementing a strong, multi-faceted since a strong infrastructure and adequate
communications strategy to influence various staff are necessary for an organization to
stakeholder sectors and policy makers. engage most effectively in systems change
 Compensating for staffing limitations by work.
developing systems to engage community Grantees say they could be more effective with:
members in as much of the work as possible.
 Grants for technology that will support
organizations in reaching their advocacy
goals.
 Grants for communication consultants.
 Openly award grants for advocacy work,
rather than expecting that it will be done with
other money.
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Grantee Capacity and Leadership
In addition, grantees were asked about transitions in top management and executive director
positions. Fifty-nine percent reported leadership staff transitions in the past year. While
transitions may ultimately lead to stronger organizations, they can place a strain on
organizations’ capacity.
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Mobilizing Resources
Catalyst employs a matching fund strategy that is often cited by its national funders and
grantmaking partners as a compelling and effective way to leverage their investment in RJ.
Catalyst’s one-to-one matching grants have helped to mobilize $23.8M for RJ.
Women’s Funds and Community Foundations, which historically received the largest matching
grants, have been trending away from funding RJ, as is evidenced by the lower total resources
mobilized in recent years. Grantmaking partners who remain in Catalyst continue to see a
benefit to the matching grant model, however, with one commenting that it “strategically
leveraged the Catalyst Fund’s investment to increase the impact and visibility of RJ work.”
With an eye to the long-term sustainability of the RJ movement, Groundswell has increasingly
extended direct matching grants to RJ grantees. Several direct grantees speak to the benefit of
this matching fund in catalyzing new supporters and resources for their organization:
Propelled grassroots "Our participation in the Catalyst Fund matching grant program helped
fundraising strategy propel the implementation of our grassroots fundraising strategy. We secured
and secured major major gifts from new and lapsed donors, inspired more grassroots supporters
gifts from new and to give, and strengthened relationships. Board members increased their
lapsed donors involvement in major donor fundraising!"
"We greatly benefited from the Catalyst matching fund program. It allowed
Increased visibility the organization to reach out locally and build allies in the Bay Area and
and fostered new throughout California. This was particularly due to Groundswell's webinars
alliances and briefing that brought together Groundswell grantees and also
connected them with affiliate organizations and foundations."
"The Catalyst Fund matching grant enhanced our capability for grassroots
Grew capacity to
fundraising and provides further incentive for our supporters to contribute to
fundraise and
our work. With Groundswell support and training, we have successfully met
diversify funding
the grassroots fundraising match every year since 2009, and we did achieve
base this goal in 2014. This support also helped diversify our funding base."
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Integrated Voter Engagement
As part of its commitment to building the capacity of the RJ movement, Groundswell Fund
developed the Integrated Voter Engagement (IVE) initiative, which supports community
organizing and non-partisan voter engagement in a sustained way
over time to boost the scale and power of grassroots organizations to
win systems change. 4 IVE builds RJ organizations’ capacity to engage
underrepresented constituencies in policy, systems change, and the
democratic process in an ongoing way, within and beyond election
cycles. The current program cycle (January 2014  December 2015)
supports 10 RJ organizations through:
 Grants covering staffing, infrastructure upgrades, and
communications campaigns
 Coaching, trainings, and peer exchanges
 TurboVote (an online, non-partisan, third party
voter registration system)
 Legal advice to ensure full 501(c)(3) compliance
 Impact evaluation plan development
An evaluation of IVE in 2014 revealed that participants
value its innovative design, learning from one another,
and deepening their connection to the larger RJ
movement. As a result of IVE, they are building their base and intensifying voter engagement
and organizing efforts year-round.5
Reflections on How Funders can Build the Movement

WHAT GRANTEES HAVE FOUND HELPFUL RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FUNDING PARTNERS
 Consultant support and coaching through Grantees say they could be more effective with:
Groundswell’s IVE program.
 Grants for grassroots fundraising experts.
 Funder advocacy by Groundswell to inform the  Funding to purchase a database system that
field about the importance of funding grassroots would allow organizations to migrate names of
organizing at the local level.
grassroots advocates over to a list of potential
 Catalyst Fund matching grants. donors.
 Meetings and events where RJ organizations  Funding to hire someone to manage the
can grow funder awareness of the many database system and track and contact
aspects of RJ work. current and potential donors in a timely
 Convenings for grantees to share ideas and/or manner.
learn new strategies hosted by Groundswell and  More opportunities to discuss the intersections
Ms. Foundation. of RJ, environmental justice, and low-wage
 Funder commitments to long-term support. worker issues.
 Funders understanding that it takes time to raise  Capacity building and consultant support for
money, and their support to develop fundraising program evaluation, board development, and
capacity. strategic planning.
4
All IVE program work is non-partisan and conducted in a c(3) context.
5
Korwin Consulting’s IVE evaluation, which presents findings from interviews with IVE participants in October 2014, is available
through Groundswell Fund as is the full IVE program impact report.
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“The ultimate goal of the reproductive justice movement is that all people have the economic,
social, and political power and resources to make healthy decisions about their gender, bodies,
sexuality, and reproduction for themselves, their families, and their communities.”
Conclusion
In 2014, Catalyst Fund grantees mobilized a highly diverse
range of communities throughout the U.S. They have tailored
their strategies to include outreach, education, service
delivery, leadership training, and advocacy actions based on
the experiences and priorities of their engaged and potential
new constituents. The details, insights, and recommendations
for funders shared in the Grantee Impact Evaluation will serve
as a resource to inform RJ organizations and funders this year
and as a baseline against which to observe change in future
years. Increased funding for RJ organizations and grantees’
ability to build on and share information about their
accomplishments — from mobilizing community members
previously uninvolved in RJ to forging strategic alliances and
policy maker relationships to policy wins and lessons learned
— highlight the value and timeliness of the Catalyst Fund.
If you would like to learn more about the data behind this
evaluation report or host a discussion for your board or other
stakeholders, we invite you to contact Groundswell Fund.
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Appendix
 Policies Passed or Blocked in 2014
 Acknowledgements and Methods
 Groundswell Fund Theory of Change
 National Funders and Grantmaking Partners
 Catalyst Grantees
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Policies Passed or Blocked in 2014
Following is a list of 58 pro-RJ policies passed and 29 harmful policies blocked with the
contribution of Catalyst grantees’ work in 2014.6 These include policies with a direct impact on
reproductive and LGBTQ health, rights and justice as well as those with a broad and/or indirect
RJ impact, via education, employment, immigration, and media justice.
ABORTION ACCESS
New Laws and Non-Legislative Policy
California
 The San Francisco Resolution against Sex-Selective Abortion Bans states that the San
Francisco Board of Supervisors is opposed to any legislation banning sex-selective abortions
(a tactic designed to curtail abortion access under the guise of concern for women in some
immigrant populations of color).
Blocking New Policy or Harmful Policy Change

Alabama
 The Fetal Heartbeat Act (HB 490) was successfully blocked. It would have mandated
physicians to confirm that there is no fetal heartbeat before performing an abortion, and
physicians who do not make this determination or who perform an abortion when
heartbeat is detected would have been found guilty of Class C felony.
California, Rhode Island, and Virginia
 Blocked three state-specific bills banning abortion based on the fetus’s gender: AB 2336
(CA), HB 7383 (RI), and HB 98(VA) — racist bills designed to reduce abortion access under
the guise of concern for women in some immigrant populations of color.
Colorado
 Blocked HB 14-1049, which would have provided that if the commission of any crime causes
death or injury to a fetus, the prosecuting attorney, in charging the underlying offense, may
also charge a homicide or assault offense. (This is seen by RJ groups as part of a policy
strategy used to build acceptance of “fetal personhood” legislation.)
 Blocked HB 14-1133, which would have made performing an abortion, in most instances, a
class 3 felony.
 Blocked two bills (SB 14-177 and SB 14-178) which would have applied criminal penalties for
child endangerment upon evidence of a mother’s drug use in her newborn baby.
 Blocked Amendment 67, a proposed fetal personhood amendment to the state constitution.
North Dakota
 Blocked Amendment 1, which would have established separate rights for fertilized eggs,
embryos, and fetuses.
Kentucky
 Blocked HB 184, which would have limited access to safe, legal abortions by requiring a
woman seeking an abortion to come to a clinic 24 hours prior to her procedure and
mandating the doctor to share certain information with her.
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The policy process is far too complex and long-term for any one organization or advocate to claim full credit for policy passage
or defeat. However, when Catalyst grantees mobilize their communities, send their staff and constituent leaders to educate
and testify to public officials, and forge and leverage relationships with allies and decision makers, their involvement is a
critical part of the RJ policy process — and its absence would be felt.
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 Blocked HB 163, which would have placed unnecessary restrictions on doctors treating
patients seeking an abortion.
 Blocked HB 132, which would have banned abortions after detection of a fetal heartbeat.
 Blocked SB 57, which would have banned nearly all abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
 Blocked SB 8, which would have forced a woman seeking an abortion to receive and listen to
the results of an ultrasound.
 Blocked HB 180, which would have imposed additional restrictions on minors seeking
abortions through judicial bypass.
 Blocked HB 575, which would have required a woman seeking an abortion to have an
unnecessary ultrasound and would have required abortion providers to link to information
on their websites about abortion alternatives.
Missouri
 Blocked SB 658, which would have provided protections for “alternatives-to-abortion”
agencies to freely engage in religious practices.
 Blocked HB 1375, which would have required any organization, institution, or facility which
performs abortions to make an onerous annual accounting of all funds received pursuant to
Title X of the federal Public Health Service Act.
 Blocked HB 1192, which would have required both custodial parents or the guardian of a
minor to be notified prior to the performance of an abortion on their minor child and
specified that the constitutions and laws of the United States and Missouri must protect the
rights of an “alternatives-to-abortion” agency and its officers to freely engage in religious
activities without interference.
South Carolina
 Blocked a bill (SB 527) which would allow a pregnant woman to use physical force or deadly
physical force against another person to protect her “unborn child.” (The bill was redundant
to the state’s “stand your ground” law and included language defining a fetus in such a way
as to undermine access to abortion and contraception.)
West Virginia
 Blocked SB 496, which would have limited health insurance coverage for elective abortions to
coverage provided through supplemental policies and limited elective abortion exceptions.
 Achieved veto of HB 4588, which would have banned abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CARE ACCESS

California
 SB 1053, the Contraceptive Coverage Equity Act, improves access to the full range of
contraceptive methods approved by the FDA for all insured individuals in California without
cost-sharing, delays, or denial of coverage.
 AB 1579, the Healthy Babies Act, allows women to obtain CalWORKs benefits at the second
trimester of pregnancy.
 Modifications to the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) Condom Availability Policy to
make condoms available to middle school students through trusted adults on campus and
emphasize its support and resources for sexually active middle school students.
Illinois
 HB 4501 ensures that minors living apart from their guardians who access school health
centers for minor health care needs, family planning, and mental health services will not
experience interference in access to abortion, birth control, or sexual health services.
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New Mexico
 The passage of SB 69 allocates funding to a pilot project utilizing midwifery models of care
to improve maternal and infant health outcomes among African American communities.
 The establishment of a new Department of Health policy in New Mexico will promote the
inclusion of Licensed Midwives in the list of maternity care providers.
OTHER HEALTH CARE AND SERVICE ACCESS

California
 AB 2102, the Data for a Culturally Appropriate Healthcare Workforce Act, requires the
collection of demographic data for allied health professions.
Colorado
 SB 14-144, the Family Medicine Residency Program in Rural Areas Act, supports the
development of family medicine residency programs in rural and underserved areas of
Colorado.
 HB 14-1045 extends full funding for the state’s breast and cervical cancer prevention and
treatment program for an additional five years (through 201819).
Illinois
 SB 3558, now known as PA 98-1013, was signed in August 2014 to create a funding stream
for community-based services for trafficking survivors and women who choose to transition
out of prostitution.7
 SB 741 provides critical restorations to the Medicaid Program, which had been cut in 2012.
 The Transparency and Medical Exemptions Process (HB 3638) requires that insurers make
information about benefits, including drug formularies, cost sharing structures, and provider
directories, available on their company website and on the healthcare marketplace website.
Louisiana
 SB 422 provides that individuals rendering assistance in medical emergencies involving
alcohol consumption or drug overdose receive immunity from charges related to possession
of alcohol or controlled substances.
 HB 754 extends access to Naloxone, a prescription drug commonly administered by
emergency room doctors to reverse the effects of opiate overdoses, to first responders
(e.g., fire fighters, peace officers, and emergency medical service providers).
Minnesota
 Provides a basic health coverage option for low-wage workers in MN just above the
expanded Medicaid eligibility limit who cannot afford to purchase private health insurance.
New Mexico
 SB 313 results in improved funding of 28 New Mexico GRADS sites (a statewide support
system for parenting teens) and 80 School Based Health Centers across the state, which
provide access to care for the majority of youth in the state.
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Although this law provides an important increase in support, it also has provisions aimed at reducing the demand for sex work
through law enforcement targeting customers — an approach based on an analysis of sex work that is problematic for many
in RJ.
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New York
 Provides a basic health coverage option for low-wage workers in NY State just above the
expanded Medicaid eligibility limit who cannot afford to purchase private health insurance.
 The New York State Department of Health passed a policy allowing a change of gender
marker on New York birth certificates for applicants with certification from a licensed
medical provider stating the applicant is undergoing treatment.
 A new policy allows a change of gender marker on New York City birth certificates without
requiring invasive and sterilizing surgeries.
Federal
 Issuance of federal regulations to allow states to offer the basic health coverage option for
low-wage workers in any state who are above the expanded Medicaid eligibility limit but
cannot afford to purchase private health insurance.
 Establishment of a Department of Health and Human Services policy to ensure expedited
access to prescription drugs when a Medicare enrollee is suffering from a health condition
that may seriously jeopardize life, health, or the ability to regain maximum function or when
an enrollee is undergoing a current course of treatment using the drug in question.

Georgia
 Blocked the Georgia Health Care Freedom and ACA Noncompliance Act (HB 707/SB 334)
which would have prohibited any activity that aids in the enforcement of ACA.
New York
 Successfully eliminated a state regulation prohibiting Medicaid payment for “care, services,
drugs, or supplies rendered for the purpose of gender reassignment or any care, services,
drugs, or supplies intended to promote such treatment.”
COMPREHENSIVE SEX EDUCATION

West Virginia
 McDowell County Schools adopted a comprehensive Reproductive and Relationship Health
Education and Teen Pregnancy Prevention section in their Wellness Policy (8-060).

Kansas
 Blocked SB 376/HB 2620, which would have required schools to obtain parental/legal
guardian permission prior to their child attending a health and human sexuality education
class.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE/PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX CHANGE

California
 SB 1135 halts sterilizations for the purpose of birth control on individuals in prison.
 In 2014 several California counties enacted policies to support the implementation of and
compliance with AB 2530 (2012), California's ban on shackling pregnant prisoners.
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 AB 966, the Prisoner Protections for Family and Community Health Act, requires the
California Department of Corrections to expand condom access in prisons in order to
address the high incidence of HIV and other sexually transmitted infection among inmates.
 AB 1628 permits a grandparent to petition for the right to visit a child whose parents are
married when one parent is incarcerated or involuntarily institutionalized and there is a pre-
existing bond such that visitation would be beneficial to the grandchild.
 SB 1310 changes a misdemeanor sentence from "one year" to "364 days" so that California
misdemeanors do not trigger federal deportation proceedings.
 A policy ending the ban on CalWORKS and CalFresh eligibility for people who have been
convicted of drug felonies has been incorporated into the California state budget.
 An amendment to Penal Code Section 1170.06 expands eligibility for the Alternative
Custody Program, allowing incarcerated parents to apply for permission to live in their
communities with or near their children.
 SB 967 adds a section to the Education Code requiring postsecondary institutions to adopt
and implement procedures or protocols to ensure that students, faculty, and staff who are
victims of sexual assault at their institutions receive treatment and information.
 AB 2308 requires the Department of Corrections to ensure that all inmates released from
state prisons have valid identification cards.
 SB 833 allow sheriffs to hold prisoners in jail up to 16 hours after their release date at the
request of the incarcerated individual so they be released at a safe hour and can connect
with a treatment facility, mental institution, or someplace where they can be safe.
 AB 336 requires prosecutors to make a written offer of proof to prove relevance before
introducing condoms as evidence of prostitution.
Kansas
 The University of Kansas formally established a sexual assault task force and implemented
policies to improve campus response to sexual assault.
Missouri
 Passage of a policy calls for St. Louis County police to record every call for service using
video cameras worn on their bodies.
New Mexico
 Establishment of Albuquerque’s Metropolitan Detention Center policy to provide options for
transport so that nursing mothers can continue to provide breast milk to their babies.
New York
 Administrative Code of the City of New York, Title 14, Chapter 1, Section 14-154 prohibits
the New York Police Department from honoring immigration detainers for people with prior
convictions of loitering and prostitution.
 The approval of New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision
Division of Health Services Policy HSPM 1.31, Gender Identity Disorder, outlines the
procedures for transgender inmates to obtain gender-affirming healthcare.
Pennsylvania
 HB 1796 protects landlords and others who call for emergency assistance from any legal
penalty when they had a reasonable suspicion of crime or abuse. The law’s effect is to
provide equitable protections for domestic violence victims.
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OTHER PARENTING RIGHTS — INCLUDING IMMIGRATION POLICY
California
 SR 54 calls for the repeal of the maximum family grant rule in CalWORKS.
Illinois
 HB 5686, now known as PA 98-1082, protects parental rights by strengthening short-term
guardianship, clarifying guardians' obligation to inform parents of their children's residential
address, and limiting guardians' freedom to move out of state with children.
West Virginia
 HB 4335 permits breastfeeding in public places.
Federal
 On November 20th, 2014 President Obama announced executive actions which expand
DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) and provide for a new deferred action
program for parents of citizen and LPR (lawful permanent resident) children.
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
California
 California AB 2253 improves access to services and regulatory materials from state agencies
for limited-English proficient workers in nail salons and other industries.
West Virginia
 SB 373 improves above-ground chemical storage safety and improves water quality.
Federal
 The National Congress of American Indians passed Resolution ANC-14-005 urging Congress
to pass meaningful Federal chemical policy reform to protect future generations.

Federal
 S 1009, known as the Chemical Safety Improvement Act of 2014, was successfully stalled in
committee pending changes to make it more adequately protect the health of vulnerable
populations and to remove excessive concessions to the chemical industry.
EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT, AND ACCESS TO SERVICES

California
 Cal/OSHA dedicated resources to the nail salon community to improve the health and safety
of workers by developing an educational plan to ensure nail salon owners know how to
develop and implement an Injury and Illness Prevention Program (IIPP).
 AB 1522 guarantees paid sick days up to 24 hours or 3 days in each year of employment.
Colorado
 SB 14-005, the Wage Protection Act, creates stronger accountability and compliance
mechanisms for willful failure to pay wages.
Illinois
 The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (HB 8) provides reasonable accommodations for
pregnant women or those who have just given birth.
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Mississippi
 Nominal increase in the State’s funding of the Mississippi Adequate Education Program
funding formula.
New Mexico
 SB 44 creates the High School Credential Certificate as an alternative to the GED, which had
more than doubled in cost after becoming privatized in 2013. It also removes the term
"GED" from NM state statutes and replaces it with "High School Equivalency Diploma."
New York
 The New York City Council passed legislation that establishes a New York City Identity Card
program to increase and facilitate access to public and city services for low-income,
undocumented, and homeless people.
West Virginia
 HB 4284, the Pregnant Workers’ Fairness Act, protects the right of pregnant women to
continue to support their families by requiring employers to make the same
accommodations for pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions that employers
must already make for temporary disabilities.

Colorado
 Blocked SB 14-074, which would have repealed a law allowing a plaintiff who proves an
employer engaged in intentional discrimination to receive compensatory/punitive damages.
New Mexico
 Blocked SB 150, the Lottery Scholarship Solvency Act, which would have enacted changes to
eligibility standards for scholarships derived from lottery funds. Legislators had proposed
increasing the GPA and course load requirements, which would have had the effect of
making it more difficult for working class people of color to access the scholarship.
MEDIA JUSTICE
New Mexico
 Albuquerque City Council Memorial Number: M-14-4 calls for fair and accurate
representation and use of responsible speech toward marginalized groups in the media
including television, print, radio, cable, Internet, billboards, and other forms of local media.
MILITARY SYSTEM JUSTICE

Federal
 Supported provisions adopted as part of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal
Year 2015, including: a requirement that the DoD Comptroller General disclose what
healthcare is being provided to servicewomen; 16 important sexual-assault-related reforms;
a requirement that Service Academies examine their policies and procedures around sexual
assault charges and military justice reform and report on whether they are in substantial
compliance; and a requirement that the Services validate gender-neutral standards using
independent research entities.
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Acknowledgements
We are grateful for the opportunity to work with Groundswell Fund Executive Director Vanessa
Daniel and Program Director Alexandra DelValle, whose insights, partnership, and commitment
to the evaluation process are invaluable. We also appreciate the support of Groundswell Fund
Executive Assistant Beverly Avery, Lillian Ortiz of esoesdesign for the Catalyst grantee map, and
the contributions to our analysis by data science and analytics consultant David Kattari.
This evaluation would not have been possible without the participation of the Catalyst Fund
grantmaking partners and grantees. We sincerely appreciate their role in developing, refining,
and piloting the new Grantee Impact Evaluation tool. In addition, the following individuals also
gave their time and insights to this evaluation process by participating in a focus group:
 Cristina Aguilar, COLOR
 Adriann Barboa, Forward Together/Strong Families NM
 Janette Robinson Flint, Black Women for Wellness
 Lisa Fu, California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative
 Erin Garner-Ford, ACT for Women and Girls
 Yamani Hernandez, Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health
 Diana Lugo-Martinez, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health (NLIRH)
 Maria Nakae, Forward Together
 Malika Redmond, SPARK
 Mari Schimmer, URGE
 Alicia Ybarra, COLOR
Methods
The evaluation was conducted using a mixed-methods evaluation approach including:
 Analysis of final report data submitted by 39 grantees through Groundswell’s online
Grantee Impact Evaluation 2014.
 A focus group with 11 WOC-led RJ movement leaders on June 9, 2014 to gain insight
into their work and their recommendations for strengthening the movement.
 Review and analysis of relevant reports and other materials from Groundswell Fund.
 Meetings, phone calls, and emails with Groundswell Fund staff for clarifications, in-
depth information, and evaluation planning.
Photo Identifications
Front cover, clockwise from top left: Raising Women’s Voices, New Voices Pittsburgh, California Healthy
Nail Salon Collaborative, and National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health.
Page 18: Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health.
Page 21, from top: West Virginia FREE and Reproductive Justice Collective.
Page 22: Sylvia Rivera Law Project.
Page 23: Faith Aloud
The quotations in blue-band headers throughout the report are drawn from a variety of Groundswell
Fund sources, including the new Blueprint.
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Groundswell Fund Theory of Change
In 2014, Groundswell Fund underwent a rigorous planning process to develop a blueprint for
future work. The theory of change in the Blueprint best articulates the underpinnings of the
Catalyst Fund at this time:
The ultimate goal of the RJ Movement is that all people have the economic, social, and political
power and resources to make healthy decisions about their gender, bodies, sexuality, and
reproduction for themselves, their families, and their communities.
The ultimate goal of Groundswell Fund is a vibrant and organized grassroots base with the
power to advance Reproductive Justice for the long haul, winning concrete improvements that
can be felt in people’s daily lives, and infusing broader social justice movements with
progressive analysis and strategies around gender.
The following principles undergird Groundswell’s work:
 Mass-based social justice movements are necessary to advance major change.
 An organized grassroots base is the engine of any social justice movement. Policy and
systems-change wins are paper thin without an organized, vibrant, and sustained
grassroots base that can defend them and advance RJ for the long haul. The policy win is
not the end game. A movement that can defend each victory and win again and again is
the end game.
 Resourcing those most impacted by reproductive injustice to transform the systems that
impact their lives will expand RJ for the greatest number of people. In today’s United
States, power comes from a racially, economically, and generationally diverse base and
the leadership of low-income people, young people, and people of color who have the
skills and capacity to organize their communities.
 Multi-issue organizing is an essential tool for effective base-building.
 Strategic and courageous organizing within philanthropy is needed to address the
dearth of resources moving to grassroots organizing led by women, people of color,
youth, and transgender people.
 We will have our greatest impact where we can play a catalytic role—therefore we
prioritize funding work where our support can be most impactful due to historic and
ongoing under-resourcing.
 Sustained social change requires a range of strategies. Our primary focus is on
grassroots organizing, recognizing that direct service provision, cultural work, and
healing work serve as transformative entry points for grassroots leaders.
We will achieve our ultimate goal through pursuit of three core strategies: grant-making,
capacity-building, and funder organizing. We increase funding to RJ organizations that are
expanding the grassroots base of the movement and are winning concrete improvements in
women’s and LGBTQ people’s reproductive health outcomes and experiences. We expand
grantee access to capacity-building resources that build the skills and infrastructure needed to
accelerate grassroots power-building. A commitment to investing in ecosystems and building
bridges across movements is woven through all the work we do. How we do our work is guided
by five operating values: being strategic, accountable, responsive, creative, and nimble.
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National Funders and Grantmaking Partners
CATALYST & RJ FUND NATIONAL FUNDERS (2014)

 Alki Fund
 Anonymous (four anonymous donors)
 Collective Heritage Fund
 Educational Foundation of America
 Ford Foundation
 Foundation for a Just Society
 General Service Foundation
 Grove Foundation
 William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
 Irving Harris Foundation
 Linked Fate Fund for Justice
 Mary Wohlford Foundation
 Moriah Fund
 Overbrook Foundation
 Packard Foundation
 Prospect Hill Foundation
 Tides Foundation
 Underdog Fund of Tides Foundation
 Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation
 WestWind Foundation
CATALYST GRANTMAKING PARTNERS (2014)

These are grantmaking partners who participated in the Catalyst Fund in 2014 by raising matching grant
funds and awarding grants to WOC-led RJ organizations in December 2014/January 2015 for work they
will do in 2015.
 Chicago Foundation for Women
 Ms. Foundation for Women
 New York Women’s Foundation
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Catalyst Grantees
Following are the organizations featured in this evaluation. They received grants at the end of
2013 for work in 2014.
 ACT for Women and Girls * = Raised a Catalyst match in 2014

 Affinity Community Services = Integrated Voter Engagement (IVE) grantee
 Alaska Community Action on Toxics*
 Cabrini Green Legal Aid (formerly CLAIM)
 California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative*
 California Latinas for Reproductive Justice 
 Chicago Abortion Fund
 Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights (COLOR)
 The Correctional Association
 EverThrive Illinois
 Faith Aloud 
 FIERCE
 Forward Together/Strong Families NM*
 Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health
 International Indian Treaty Council*
 Kentucky Health Justice Network
 Legal Services for Prisoners with Children*
 Media Literacy Project*
 Metropolitan Chicago Breast Cancer Task Force
 Mississippi in Action
 National Advocates for Pregnant Women
 National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum
 National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health 
 Native American Community Board
 New Voices Pittsburgh*
 Project South
 Raising Women’s Voices*
 Reproductive Justice Collective 
 Sakhi for South Asian Women*
 Service Women’s Action Network (SWAN)
 SisterSong
 Southern Rural Black Women’s Initiative
 SPARK 
 Sylvia Rivera Law Project*
 URGE: Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity 
 WV FREE 
 Western States Center
 Women With a Vision
 Young Women United*
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THE CATALYST FUND

A new era in evaluating the

Welcome to the new Catalyst evaluation.

Building the Base

As in previous Catalyst years, the

Organizing in Diverse Communities

RAISING THE VOICES OF YOUNG PEOPLE OF COLOR

SUPPORTING ACTIVISTS IN RURAL COMMUNITIES

ENGAGING INCARCERATED AND FORMERLY INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS

Reflections on Building and Organizing the Base

From a Chance Encounter to Embracing a Public Role

How can we measure leadership growth?

M eredith of Kentucky Health Justice Network (KHJN) first became involved as a

Youth Training Participant becomes Adult Ally

Reflections on Building Leadership Capacity

Leveraging Power with Allies

T he Reproductive Justice Collective (RJC) in

Reflections on Building Strategic Alliances

Policy Advocacy and Implementation/Public Education/Informing the Field

Confronting Harmful Policies and Trends/Influencing the Conversation

Building RJ through the Lens of Family Wellness in Illinois

LEVEL 1 — CHAMPION: Seeks your advice in drafting policies and

LEVEL 2 — ADVOCATE: Occasionally introduces/consistently co-

LEVEL 3 — SUPPORTER: Occasionally co-sponsors or supports

LEVEL 4 — FRIENDLY/PERSUADABLE: Policy maker and/or staff

LEVEL 5 — NEUTRALIZED OPPOSITION: Policy maker is convinced

Reflections on Effecting Change

Reflections on How Funders can Build the Movement

 Policies Passed or Blocked in 2014

 Acknowledgements and Methods

 Groundswell Fund Theory of Change

 National Funders and Grantmaking Partners

Blocking New Policy or Harmful Policy Change

REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CARE ACCESS

OTHER HEALTH CARE AND SERVICE ACCESS

Blocking New Policy or Harmful Policy Change

COMPREHENSIVE SEX EDUCATION

Blocking New Policy or Harmful Policy Change

CRIMINAL JUSTICE/PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX CHANGE

Blocking New Policy or Harmful Policy Change

EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT, AND ACCESS TO SERVICES

Blocking New Policy or Harmful Policy Change

MILITARY SYSTEM JUSTICE

CATALYST & RJ FUND NATIONAL FUNDERS (2014)

CATALYST GRANTMAKING PARTNERS (2014)

 ACT for Women and Girls * = Raised a Catalyst match in 2014

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