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Innovations provides education and guidance for donors who want to better understand emerging trends and opportunities in the reproductive health and justice movements.  

Our Offerings

  • Education and information resources
    Innovations offers workshops and expert-led discussions for institutional and individual donors. We provide accessible, useful information whether a funder hopes to learn more about the dynamic landscape of abortion rights and access post-Dobbs, or wishes to engage with experts in a specific subject area (for example, new technologies for safe abortion, emerging models for abortion access in red states, or proactive legal strategies post-Dobbs).
  • Strategic advice and thought partnership
    Innovations offers donors strategic advice and thought partnership to target their giving in reproductive health and justice, in order to better support their goals, whether those are broad-based movement objectives or specific research or advocacy outcomes.
  • Microgrant funds
    Giving directly to small, grassroots organizations and leaders can be logistically challenging. But those same groups often have the capacity to leverage minimal amounts of funding in ways that directly build community knowledge, local coalitions, and home-grown activism. Innovations successfully partners with donors to create micro-grant funds that catalyze local activism with state-level impacts.
  • Targeted collaborations
    New technologies, emerging legal strategies, and innovative models for increasing abortion access move forward faster when multiple organizations and leaders take on related projects in communication and collaboration with each other. Innovations has experience successfully partnering with funders and organizations to create bundles of complementary research, education and advocacy projects that move in tandem to turn new ideas into real-world results. For donors who want to see measurable change, funding a collaborative suite of projects across organizations can be a tremendously effective way to invest in reproductive justice.

Our Expertise

For more than two decades, Innovations’ principal consultant, Cari Sietstra, JD has created and implemented successful strategies to improve access to safe abortion. Sietstra leverages subject area expertise, long-term, movement-wide relationships, and a deep knowledge of both national and grassroots organizations to help donors make investments that catalyze demonstrable impacts. Her accessible, non-judgmental communication style welcomes questions, and meets funders where they are with curiosity and respect

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