Projects Funded

September 16 – 17th, 2022 Foundational doula trainer and midwife Shafia Monroe hosted the 1st Annual SMC Doula Conference in Portland, Oregon this September. The Foundation for the [...]

FAM proud to sponsor and attend the Alabama Black Midwives Conference                               May 20th – [...]

Birthing People Foundation empowers women of color/people of color by providing free and low cost training, education and certification pertaining to pregnancy, birth and postpartum.  Including [...]

National Black Midwives Alliance trains and organizes midwives to serve as advocates to address disparities in maternal health care that impact black birthing people. NBMA’s central goal is to [...]

Equity in Midwifery Education provides resources with a focus on disparities, social justice and preventing trauma in the midwifery profession. An equity focus means that Power and Privilege are [...]

Birth from The Earth, Inc. is a non-profit organization, steeped in education & empowerment.  Birth from the Earth’s mission is: “To activate and engage through education, [...]

On April 8, 2020, the Big Push for Midwives Campaign launched the Where’s My Midwife? community mapping tool to help connect midwives trained in out-of-hospital birth with people whose [...]

FAM is proud to announce the initial funding for a new Elephant Circle initiative: Defense of Midwives. This project will increase capacity among underrepresented attorneys to bring cases for [...]

In response to what Indigenous families need right now, Indigenous Women Rising is launching and piloting a donation based midwifery fund. The fund will focus on: Supporting access to home births [...]

The Birth Center Equity Fund was created to make birth center care an option for every person who wants it, by growing and sustaining birth centers led by Black, Indigenous, and other people of [...]