Women’s Fund has always supported organizations that work to improve women’s health andwider access to reproductive healthcare in Indiana.
In a health landscape fraught with new laws, restrictions, and soaring costs, our efforts have only redoubled. Read about five organizations dedicated to women’s health that received grant funding during our latest grant round.
All-Options
Amount granted: $17,500
Grant for: Education on Reproductive Health Options
All-Options promotes judgment-free support for women in their decisions, feelings, and experiences with pregnancy, parenting, abortion, and adoption. They do so by sharing accurate and unbiased information while also providing resources such as condoms, emergency contraception, pregnancy tests, diapers, menstrual products and other services through a variety of community outreach methods. A grant from Women’s Fund will support its work in Central Indiana to ensure that underserved and marginalized women and girls have access to this information.
Gennesaret Free Clinic
Amount granted: $20,000
Grant for: Women’s Health Services
Gennesaret Free Clinic provides healthcare services to low-income and unhoused populations of Indianapolis.
This grant will support Gennesaret Free Clinic’s Women’s Health Services program, which provides free pap and pelvic exams, STI testing, breast screening services, patient education, access to breast diagnostic services, patient navigation services, and direct financial assistance that covers unmet costs that may impede a women’s health journey as a patient. It provides family planning and free birth control through a partnership with PATH4YOU.
Indiana University Foundation
Amount granted: $25,000
Grant for: Patient-Centered Contraception Care through PATH4YOU
Pregnancy at a Time that is Happy and Healthy for You (PATH4YOU) reduces infant and maternal mortality by helping plan healthy pregnancies. The program is based at the Indiana University School of Medicine.
Women’s Fund’s Grant will support PATH4YOU’s contraceptive initiative in central Indiana, which provides free, same-day access to all forms of reversible birth control. All patients receive pregnancy intention screening, contraception information and counseling, and same-day access to their chosen contraceptive method.
HamCo Love
Amount granted: $7,500
Grant for: Period Supplies for Hamilton County Schools
HamCo Love provides necessary period care products to Hamilton County residents, including more than 45 Hamilton County schools. It directly supplies school clinics, stocks menstruation stations in restrooms, and/or gives teachers a stash to provide in their classrooms.
The grant from the Women’s Fund will allow HamCo Love to increase its capacity, install more menstruation stations, and work with nurses and counselors to provide “to go” packs for students to take home as needed.
Just Community
Amount granted: $20,000
Grant for: JUST Doula Culturally Responsive Training Design Initiative
A Women’s Fund grant will help Just Community develop the JUST Doula Culturally Responsive Training Design Initiative, a specialized training program for doulas that emphasizes cultural responsiveness and incorporates comprehensive training in trauma-informed care, mental health, and physical and emotional support for women throughout their pregnancy. It will enhance the capabilities of current doulas and train new doulas to meet the diverse needs of mothers, particularly focusing on Black populations in Marion County.
This article was published within the February 2025 issue of the Women’s Fund’s Diane magazine.
