Abortion Bridge Collaborative Fund 2024

The Abortion Bridge Collaborative (ABC) Fund, housed at the Women Donors Network, is dedicated to ensuring abortion access across the United States. Its mission aligns with providing critical resources to maintain and expand abortion care, particularly in a post-Dobbs context. The fund's strategic priority is to build capacity where abortion care will continue and work towards local access and protections in areas where it will not. Grantmaking is guided by a Grantmaking Advisory Council comprised of activists, leaders, and donors from reproductive rights, health, and justice movements, ensuring a deeply informed and responsive approach. The ABC Fund primarily targets organizations specifically focused on abortion access, with a strong emphasis on reproductive justice. Target beneficiaries include key communities made more vulnerable by Roe's reversal, such as BIPOC, immigrant, LGBTQIA+, low-income, disabled, and young communities. The fund seeks to support organizations that serve and are informed by these communities, prioritizing community determination and lived experiences. This ensures that the grants address the most pressing needs and are culturally competent. The fund's priorities and focus areas are broad, encompassing support for existing and emerging programs explicitly focused on abortion rights, access, and justice. This includes broad general operating support, addressing budget shortfalls, funding new staff positions (especially for technology, infrastructure, or geographic expansion), and providing short-term consulting expertise (legal, organizational reincorporation, accounting). Additionally, the fund supports the creation of information-sharing or organizational hubs to facilitate patient/client care and capacity building to meet unmet infrastructure needs within or among organizations. Expected outcomes include strengthening the abortion access ecosystem, meeting immediate needs, and building foundational systems for the medium and long term. Measurable results are reflected in the range of awards, from $15,000 to $300,000, with an average grant of approximately $100,000, indicating the scale of impact. The fund's theory of change centers on empowering established and trusted organizations within local or regional movements to create sustainable and equitable access to abortion care, particularly those with leadership including BIPOC women, LGBTQIA+ folks, or youth in key positions.