2024 CAN mini-grant winners!
Congratulations to the 2024 Philly CAN mini-grant recipients! The mini-grants were awarded to six BIPOC grassroots organizations whose work supports the mission of the CAN. Learn more about each organization below.
Breastfeeding Empowerment and Awareness (BAE)
BAE Culture weaves together principles of reproductive justice, trauma-informed care, and perinatal mental health delivering a multi-pronged approach to support Black families and advance health equity. BAE offers dynamic community programming for families, consulting and training for professionals, & more. By protecting, promoting, and uplifting Black breastfeeding, BAE seeks to eliminate health disparities and promote a lasting, multigenerational culture of health.
BIPOC Birth Work Circle
The BIPOC Birth Work Circle and Scholarship Fund is designed to support more Women of Color (WOC) in becoming certified doulas and educators who can provide services within their community to improve birth outcomes. In addition to supporting WOC in becoming certified birth workers, BIPOC Birth Work Circle strives to provide affordable access to these birth workers.
Coco Life Foundation is a non-profit 501(c)(3) who's mission is to celebrate Black motherhood and influence favorable outcomes in Black Maternal Health by promoting a community-empowered model of care through Mombassadors. By providing gifts, edutainment programming, and events, and simplifying access to necessary and trusted resources like birth workers, mental health professionals, business strategists, and more, Coco Life is creating an ecosystem for Black moms as they navigate this journey.
Reclaim Black Motherhood (RBM) is an LLC based in Philadelphia, dedicated to seeing service and care models in place that value, honor, and protect black pregnant, birthing people and parents. The mission of Reclaim Black Motherhood is to 1) Educate, guide, and aid black families through their pregnancy, birth, and parenting journey; 2) Challenge, resource, and support black birth workers and maternal health advocates as they explore, get established, and grow their practice; 3) Enlighten, coach, and prepare community, corporate, and government organizations to best connect to and provide perinatal services to black families.
Mommy & Me Home Health is an organization dedicated to providing education and nursing services to minority and low income women with comorbidities such as hypertension and diabetes during the antepartum and postpartum periods of pregnancy. Mommy & Me's goal is to provide skilled nursing services including blood pressure monitoring/education, postpartum assessments as well as assistance with administrating commonly prescribed medications such as anticoagulant injections and progesterone. Our goal is to help reduce the need of hospital admissions during and after pregnancy and decrease mortality rates in high-risk individuals by providing skilled nursing services in the patient's home in coordination with the patient’s obstetrician.
The new mission of Phoenix Rising Birth Works is to support Indigenous women (particularly those of us known in the current socio-political paradigm as Black and/or African-American) in their journeys of pregnancy, birth, postpartum transition & mothering through wholistic wellness and healing arts.