Projects Funded

Midwives Alliance of North America The Maternity Care Data Alliance (MCDA) is a coalition representing four of the organizations providing patient-centered maternity care in the U.S.: The [...]

Midwives Alliance of North America, Division of Research (MANA DOR) These funds will be used to keep the MANA Stats web system online, well maintained, and securely available for use by all [...]

The Big Push for Midwives Campaign The Big Push for Midwives Campaign is advancing its public education and public policy project, “Progressing the PushNation,” which will result in an effective [...]

Home Birth Summit Research and Data Task Force The U.S, Birth Place Mapping Study is the first large scale study to describe the status of integration of midwives (CNMs, CPMs, CMs) in each state. [...]

Midwifery Education Accreditation Council (MEAC) There are simply not enough accredited midwifery schools and programs to meet the current and projected trajectory of workforce demands.  Among [...]

Home Birth Summit Consumer Task Force The Giving Voice to Mothers study is underway. This study assesses how planned place of birth, race and ethnicity interact with the experience of maternity [...]

Midwives Alliance of North America, Division of Access and Equity MANA is thrilled to be launching the Access and Equity Division to address a two-fold problem of racial disparities and [...]

Changing Woman Initiative The Changing Woman Initiative is a Native American–centered women’s health collective focused on developing a culturally centered birth center. Our mission in doing [...]

Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA) The MANA Statistics Project (MANA Stats) has resulted in transformative research that has the capacity to inform consumer decision-making, midwifery [...]