Dear RG community—

The Supreme Court rulings last week left us angry, sad, numb, and among all the other feelings, clear. The conservative right has been working towards this vision for decades. We invite RG members in this moment to take a breath and recommit to fighting for and funding liberatory organizing for the long haul. 

We know that reproductive justice leaders have a plan for getting through this time and into what’s next. We trust their leadership and know that a well-resourced reproductive justice movement is what is and always has been needed in a country where health care, including abortion care, is not available to all. 

Below are some ways to engage in the coming days, weeks, and months ahead: 

As one of the largest funders of the RJ movement, Groundswell is ready for this moment. Over the last two decades, we’ve built a system to resource reproductive and social justice movements becoming a channel into which individual donors and foundations can pour resources to reach vital work at the grassroots. RG members can support Groundswell’s vital work by donating directly and by signing onto the philanthropic pledge to protect abortion access and reproductive justice.

1. Move $$ to abortion funds (& track your gift / pledge here) in any or all of the following ways - 
   
   1. Give general operating dollars directly to NNAF at nnaf.org/resourcegeneration
   2. Give to NNAF’s Collective Power Fund at nnaf.org/resourcegenerationcpf which will be redistributed to member funds
   3. Give directly to your local Abortion Fund
      
      
2. Share our campaign microsite fundabortionnow.us with your networks & encourage them to move $$! We have an outreach toolkit here with graphics & copy available for you to use.
   
   
3. EVENT: Join our Post-Decision Feelings to Action call tonight at 8:30 ET at https://bit.ly/FeelingsToAction to collectively process this moment and orient ourselves around what we need to be doing and what comes next.

 If you have questions or want to join the campaign organizing team, email [email protected].

EVENT: Fight the Right, Fund Abortion Webinar
If the impending SCOTUS decision on abortion mobilizes progressives, it would be the Right’s worst nightmare Wednesday July 6, 4-6 PT / 7-9 ET.

Sign up here. 

This workshop is for you if...  

• You are new to funding reproductive rights and eager to/step up your funding in this area with clear strategies under your belt;
• You care deeply about reproductive rights and are looking for a way to help other progressive donors understand why we must all care about the loss of reproductive health access.
  
• You’re concerned about the rise of white nationalism and authoritarianism and want to consider what this ruling might mean for the country. 
  

Get involved with and donate to your local abortion fund, and follow the lead of organizations like Black Feminist Future, SisterSong, New Voices for Reproductive Justice, and Harriet’s Wildest Dreams to get involved in actions near you.

EVENT: If you are in the D.C. area or can be there on June 30th, join Center for Popular Democracy Action for their non-violent civil disobedience event. Find more information at https://scotus.cpdaction.org/. 

Some Places to Learn More:

• Groundswell’s 2021 survey of 80 grassroots and birth justice organizations
• "You Say You Don't Fund Reproductive Justice? There's Still A Lot You Can Do," a blog by NCRP Board Member and Butler Family Fund Executive Director Molly Schultz Hafid and NCRP's Brandi Collins-Calhoun about what foundations can do to help in this moment, especially those whose grantmaking usually falls outside of reproductive justice area. 
• Funding The Frontlines: A Roadmap To Supporting Health Equity Through Abortion Access, exploring the different aspects of abortion access: Local clinics as essential frontline providers, and destigmatizing care for transgender and gender-expansive patients. 
• NCRP’s fact sheet, The Cost of COVID, details how COVID-19 has shifted abortion access and impacted the funds that guard patient access, rights, and justice.

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