FUNDING
Donations and Foundation Grants
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Our funding comes from people and organizations like you who believe in our mission and support our causes, projects and events. Our funding comes from a variety of sources, including:
- Heath Net Community-Based Doula Program
- Hospital Community Benefits donations.
- The Caroline T. Tribe and Laurence H. Tribe Charitable Trusts.
- California Community Foundation (CCF) for Hospital Improvements and Nursing Education.
- Personal donations. We are able to provide free and low-cost Childbirth Education Classes, Labor Doula Support and Postpartum Doula Support, which are provided on a sliding scale to disadvantaged families and incarcerated women. Your contribution can make it possible for low-income women to have professional labor support and midwifery care and receive perinatal education, regardless of their income.
- Fee-for-services provided such as Perinatal Health Consulting for clinics and organizations, professional trainings and events.
What Your Contribution Supports
$50 will give a low-income mother an hour of in-home Breastfeeding Support.
$100 will give a low-income mother 2 hours of Postpartum Doula support in her home.
$150 will give a low income mother a series of prenatal yoga classes or postpartum support group sessions.
$250 will give a low-income couple a 4-week series of childbirth preparation classes.
$500 will give two Community Perinatal Health Promoters scholarships to attend our Birthing Justice Forum or Perinatal Support Specialist Training
$1000 will give a award to an up-and-coming Maternal-Child Health Professional to receive the Paul M. Fleiss MD Memorial Future Student Leader Award to help offset their education expenses. Scholarship funds will be given at our Annual Maternal-Child Health Champion Awards Ceremony and you will receive free admission to the event to give the award in person.
$1500 will offset our expenses to provide honorariums to speakers at our events such as the Maternal-Child Health Champion Awards Ceremony or Birthing Justice Forum. Your company will be featured at the event.
$2500 will support our Community-Based Doula Program to give stipends to Doulas to provide prenatal education, labor support, lactation support, postpartum care and mentorship to low-income women of color.
$5000 will sponsor our annual Birthing Justice Forum or our Mother-Friendly Childbirth Symposium. Your company will be featured at the event.
Donate Frequent Flier MIles -You can donate your frequent flier miles to help us purchase plane tickets to bring in amazing speakers from around the world to talk at our events.
Matching Company Donation -You can make this a monthly donation or a one-time donation if your company provides that. We are part of the United Way Charitable Gifting Campaign. If your workplace participates, you can allocate your donation to support us.
Amazon – When you are purchasing items on Amazon, you can select our organization to receive a donation.
If you BELIEVE in our mission…
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Make a DONATION…of any amount.
Donations are tax-deductible to Wholistic Midwifery School of Southern California DBA The Association for Wholistic Maternal and Newborn Health, a 501 (c) (3) non profit organization, 509 (a) (2) public charity. We are qualified to receive tax-deductible bequests, devises, transfers or gifts under section 2055, 2106 or 2522 of the IRS code.
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