Rivka Gordon, PA-CDirector, Strategic Initiatives

ARHP Strategic Initiatives: Looking to the future

Strategic Initiatives

• Values Project• Reproductive Health & the Environment• Expanding Reproductive Health Curriculum• New initiatives & partnership development

Values Project

“…works toward transformative change in public perception and policy to place sexual and reproductive health back where it belongs: as a fundamental and valued aspect of everyone’s health and well-being throughout their lives.”

Beyond Choice

Partnerships

• Center for American Progress• Generations Ahead• Exhale• Earthjustice • Reproductive Health

Technologies Project (RHTP)• And many others…

Goals & Accomplishments, 2007-08

• Values Project Advisory Committee• Connecting Movements working group• Beyond Choice conference• Values Project-related sessions at RH 2008• Contraception editorial• Latino Public Radio training curriculum

Reproductive Health and the Environment

REH Partnerships• Commonweal• RHTP• PPFA• Women’s Health and Environment Initiative

(WHEI)• Program on Reproductive Health and the

Environment (UCSF)• Breast Cancer Fund• Science Communications Network

Projects

• Green Choices Initiative• Index of Scientific Literature • Hormones in the Water• Policy Collaborations• Joint CME sponsorships

Expanding Reproductive Health Curriculum

Expanding Reproductive Health Curriculum

2005: Curriculum Working Group, Ibis & ARHP

RH 2007 :Working Breakfast, more partnerships

November 2007: Survey of participants

PRESENT: PRCH partnership – Residency Education Initiative (REI-NAC)

Foundation Funding

• John Merck Fund• Naomi & Nehemiah Cohen

Foundation• Richard &Rhoda Goldman

Fund• William & Flora Hewlett

Foundation• Marisla Foundation

Funding Opportunities• Passport Capital Foundation• Irving Harris Foundation• Educational Foundation of

America• California Wellness Foundation• Moriah Fund• Ford Foundation• Summit Foundation

Building a Movement