Grants for Reproductive and Women's Health

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Lifting Up Our Communities

Kroger has a long history of bringing help and hope to the communities we serve. Since our earliest days, the Kroger Family of Companies has taken care of our neighbors and each other.

When founder Barney Kroger opened his doors to give day-old bread to hungry residents, Kroger’s spirit of giving began. Nearly 135 years later, Kroger is still committed to sharing the fruits of our labor in our communities. We provide food and nourishment to help people live their best lives.

The Kroger Co. Foundation

The Kroger Co. Foundation, established in 1987, places our communities at the center of what we do. With our Purpose in mind – to Feed the Human Spirit – we support nonprofit organizations focused on ending hunger, improving food security and bringing balanced meals to families who need it most.

The Kroger Foundation works to make a difference in the communities where we operate – across 35 states and the District of Columbia. We focus on supporting our communities’ needs today and finding innovative solutions to help end hunger tomorrow. Working together, we will achieve meaningful change that transforms our communities.

Each year, the Kroger family of companies invests millions of dollars in charitable support in the communities we serve. These contributions take several forms – including financial contributions and donations of gift cards and products.

• Hunger Relief
• Women's Health
• Children's Health and Wellbeing
• K-12 Education
• Advancing Diversity
• Sustaining the Environment
• Grassroots Community Programs
• Local Disaster Relief

Established in 1992 by Lisa and Douglas Goldman, the Lisa and Douglas Goldman Fund is a private foundation committed to providing support for charitable organizations that enhance our society.  Within its grantmaking areas, the Fund strives to be responsive and flexible as well as to make informed and responsible grants to support qualified projects.  We invite you to review the Lisa and Douglas Goldman Fund’s newly stated Interests and Priorities.

The Lisa and Douglas Goldman Fund supports organizations that are making valuable contributions in the following fields:

Democracy and Civil Liberties

• Goal: Ensure informed, active, and equal citizen participation in the democratic process and protect civil liberties from emerging threats (Geographic Area: National).
• Strategies:
• Protect and expand access to voting.
• Ensure political equality for all by reducing the influence of money in politics.
• Strengthen policy and education efforts to prevent gun violence.

Environment

• Goal: Address the environmental impacts of producing, consuming, and disposing of goods.
• Geographic Area: National
• Strategies:
• Advance sustainable industry practices throughout the lifecycle of products.
• Influence market shifts toward environmentally-responsible materials and decreased use of harmful chemicals.

Jewish Community

• Goal: Combat anti-Semitism and discrimination against Israel (Geographic Area: National, with a preference for projects that impact the San Francisco Bay Area).
• Strategies:
• Advance education, advocacy, and communication efforts about the Jewish community and Israel.
• Facilitate cultural exchanges to educate the general community about Israel.

Reproductive Health and Rights

• Goal: Support abortion service delivery training, safety, and clinics.
• Geographic Area: National (and Northern California)
• Strategies:
• Promote activities that increase and improve abortion provider training.
• Protect the safety of abortion healthcare professionals and their clients.

Reproductive Health

Every woman and girl—no matter where she lives in the world—has the right to live with dignity and have a voice in decisions that affect her life.

The Reproductive Health program is committed to promoting reproductive health and rights, with a focus on high quality information and services. We place a special emphasis on engaging and serving youth, and believe that young people have the best potential for building and sustaining a movement of change.

We aim to:

• Improve the quality of comprehensive sexuality education, voluntary contraception, and abortion care.
• Strengthen service delivery, build leadership and advocacy capacity, and shift social and cultural norms to allow women and youth to make their own reproductive health care decisions.
• Forge partnerships with global research and advocacy organizations, especially networks led by youth, and to create positive and effective messages about reproductive health and rights at the regional and global levels.
• We work with reproductive health advocates, researchers, and providers to advance quality sexual and reproductive health information, services, and rights.

Funding Areas

Family Planning/Contraception

Innovations to improve quality of family planning/contraception. 

Abortion Care

Innovations to improve quality of abortion care. 

Youth

Innovations to improve quality in comprehensive sexuality education and adolescent sexual and reproductive health.

The Population and Reproductive health program is not accepting unsolicited proposals, but welcomes your ideas for funding requests.

Since 2002, The Oak Hill Fund has focused on reproductive health and rights. Despite many setbacks, the past 14 years have seen significant victories such as the legalization of over-the-counter emergency contraception, expansion of public school comprehensive sex education curricula, and wider use of long acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs). Given the growing number of attacks on women's rights, shifts in the field, and limited grant dollars, The Oak Hill Fund Board decided in 2016 to focus this program on two areas, and thus, while extremely important, comprehensive sex-education programs will no longer be supported. 

Expanding, defending and improving reproductive health, rights and justice help build strong communities. State-level attacks on reproductive rights have increased in the last decade while the need for affordable and accessible reproductive healthcare has only gone up. The Oak Hill Fund seeks project specific proposals to:

• Provide, promote, or defend access to safe, affordable reproductive healthcare and services. 
• Educate policymakers and the public on the importance of reproductive health, rights, and justice to women and families. 

Mission and Purpose

The Anna Lalor Burdick Program funds initiatives that bring women information and access to reproductive health care, contraception, and pregnancy termination in order to help broaden and enhance their options in life.

Funding Interests

The Anna Lalor Burdick (ALB) Program supports programs that offer sexual and reproductive health education to women. It is interested in programs serving women who are disadvantaged by poverty, discrimination, geographic isolation, lack of comprehensive sex education, hostile public policy, or other factors leading to inadequate sexual and reproductive health.

The ALB Program is particularly interested in supporting new programs or initiatives, or innovations in successful programs. Programs at new or small organizations, including those with a grassroots base, that are capable of delivering excellent services will also be considered.

Programs should

• have a comprehensive approach to SRH education that includes unbiased information on all options 
• include novel ideas or innovative methods of delivering information
• define clear goals and intended outcomes as well as a feasible plan to assess impact and success
• be exemplars for replication if successful
• be economically sustainable if successful

Funding Availability and Duration

The ALB Program awards a small number of grants in the range of $10,000 to $35,000, with an average grant size between $15,000 and $25,000.

Grants are awarded for one year. On rare occasions, trustees invite follow-up work to a project that has shown outstanding results or promise during its first year.