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The Foundation’s health-related grantmaking focuses on teen pregnancy prevention, reproductive choice, and providing family planning medical services locally for at-risk women and teens. The Foundation supports local and national teen pregnancy prevention programs that promote and offer research-based, realistic and comprehensive sexuality education for teenage girls and boys.

Health and Reproductive Choice

Advocates for Youth
www.advocatesforyouth.org
Advocates for Youth supports efforts that help young people make informed and responsible decisions about their reproductive and sexual health.

Association of Reproductive Health Professionals
www.arhp.org
The Association of Reproductive Health Professionals provides reproductive health services and education, conducts reproductive health research, and influences reproductive health policy.

La Clínica del Pueblo
www.lcdp.org
La Clínica del Pueblo provides free, culturally and linguistically appropriate primary health care, mental health care, social services, interpreter services, comprehensive HIV care, and health education and advocacy for 7,500 uninsured and underinsured Latinos throughout Greater Washington.

Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care
www.maryscenter.org
Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care serves multicultural populations throughout the metro Washington, D.C. region, serving individuals and families who have limited or no access to health-related services.

*Mayo Clinic
www.mayoclinic.com
Mayo Clinic is a medical practice dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of virtually every type of complex illness.

Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health
www.prch.org
Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health is a national network of pro-choice physicians who work to ensure that all people have the knowledge, access to quality services, and freedom to make their own reproductive health decisions.

Planned Parenthood Federation of America
www.plannedparenthood.org
Planned Parenthood Federation of America works to reduce the incidence of teen and unintended pregnancy, expand access to reproductive health services and technologies, and mobilize grassroots participation needed to change policies, trends, attitudes and behaviors.

Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington
www.ppmw.org
Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington supports and advocates for the right of every person to make responsible, informed reproductive health choices and provides low-income, at-risk teens, women, and men with confidential reproductive and preventive health care and education services.

PreventionWorks!
www.preventionworksdc.org
PreventionWorks! provides needle exchange and other harm reduction services in the District of Columbia to curb the spread of HIV and other blood-borne diseases.

Teen Connection of Takoma, Inc.
www.connectwithteens.com
Teen Connection of Takoma provides responsible healthcare and education to male and female teens to decrease the number of teen pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases.

Unity Health Care
www.unityhealthcare.org
Unity Health Care offers a citywide network of quality health and human services to the medically underserved regardless of race, ethnic background or ability to pay.

*Washington Grantmakers - Washington AIDS Partnership
www.washingtongrantmakers.org/s_wash/sec.asp?CID=4603&DID=9564
The Washington AIDS Partnership encourages local philanthropy to become involved in HIV/AIDS grantmaking through locally-based community partnerships and matching grants. The Partnership has granted over $14 million to over 130 organizations that work on HIV/AIDS prevention, education and service programs.

* NNCF makes a limited number of board-directed grants to pre-selected organizations.

 
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