Birth Future Grants

BFF Grantmaking Principles

  • Support innovative and reimagined approaches to equity and liberation in midwifery care, midwifery education, and the midwifery profession

  • Support initiatives that dismantle systems of oppression in midwifery care, midwifery education, and the midwifery profession

  • Prioritize resources for Black, Brown, Indigenous, and LGBTQIA+ led work

  • Fund leadership development and operating expenses as well as projects

  • Remove barriers to funding with an accessible application process

  • Respect and trust grantee partners

Participatory Grantmaking

BFF is excited to share that we have created our own participatory grantmaking infrastructure. BFF convenes advisory committees of people who represent the grant focus at hand to be the decision makers. Not only does this shift the power of *who* decides, it honors that the knowledge shared by community members is valuable, centering reciprocity and the knowledge shared by grantees as equal to the value of money from donors. We honor the expertise of communities and will provide compensation to our grantmaking advisors.

Reference: Gibson, C.(2018). Deciding together, Participatory grantmaking. Grantcraft.

Birth Future Foundation is a grassroots, grantmaking foundation. Learn more about our approach to equitable and ethical grantmaking for midwifery.

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Grants for 67 Black and Indigenous midwives and future midwives!

We are proud to announce that we have selected 67 Black and Indigenous midwives and midwifery students in the U.S. to receive our BFF+Baby Yams Watering the Seeds grant!

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50 Grants, $75,000 for Midwives!

We are proud to announce that we have selected 50 midwives, students, and preceptors in the U.S. to receive our Tending to the Soil: Cultivating Community Care Grant!

We were overwhelmed by all the phenomenal individuals who applied or were nominated for our Tending to the Soil Grant. We are excited to announce that we are awarding $75,000 in total for this grant cycle, our largest fund to date!

Thank you! You spread the word, made nominations, applied, and donated. Every member of the BFF community shares in the success and impact of our grantmaking. Thank you for being part of it!

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Announcing BFF’s 2022 Sustaining Birth Justice Grantees

We are thrilled to announce our second round of grants for 2022 and tell you about our phenomenal BFF Sustaining Birth Justice Grantees:

  • Granny's Birth Initiative

  • Mothers for Mothers Postpartum Justice

  • Want to be Well Doula Services

  • Chocolate Milk Cafe National Inc

  • MAAME Inc (Mobilizing African American Mothers Empowerment)

  • Naturally Nurtured Birth Services

At Birth Future Foundation we are committed to participatory grantmaking with those who are building our liberated birth future. A big thank you to our amazing grantmaking advisory committee Tanzye Hill, Cambreisha Montgomery, and RaShaunda Lugrand. And thank you to all our grassroots donors who power our Birth Future grants!

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Introducing our Inaugural BFF Grantees

We are thrilled to share with you our inaugural BFF Grantees:
Alabama Black Midwives Conference,
Birth Detroit,
Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition of Hawaii, and
Dr. Nadia English-Williams.

At Birth Future Foundation we are committed to participatory grantmaking with those who are building our liberated birth future. A big thank you to our amazing grantmaking advisory committee Jaqxun Darlin, CPM, Dr. Analena Hassberg, Maia Raynor, and Audra Post. And thank you to all our grassroots donors who power our Birth Future grants!

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