Major Grant Awarded to Support the Work of NACPM
The National Association of Certified Professional Midwives is pleased to announce the receipt of a major grant of $100,000 from the Transforming Birth Fund to support the mission and work of the organization in 2014.
NACPM has set a strategic direction over the last decade to create a secure foothold for CPMs within the system, to support the growth and diversity of the profession and to remove barriers to practice – for the sake of women, infants, families and communities, including the most vulnerable.
Betsy McNamara, TBF
The Transforming Birth Fund (TBF), a donor-advised fund of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, serves as a catalyst to change the way birth is experienced by women and babies in the United States by making grants to organizations that impact policy and practice, support research, and/or disseminate research and best practice information about birth.
“The Transforming Birth Fund has awarded NACPM a total of $676,785 over six years, beginning in 2008. A true partnership! We’re very happy with the outcome of this investment,” says Betsy McNamara, Program Officer of the TBF.
NACPM is committed to fundraise to supplement membership dues for a profession still in development, and to carry forward the work of securing a place for the profession within the maternity care system in the U.S. NACPM is tremendously grateful to the donor for the support of the Transforming Birth Fund, and for the confidence the Fund has placed in NACPM’s strategic direction and accomplishments.
Upcoming activities of NACPM include a reinvigorated MAMA Campaign in 2014, ongoing NACPM participation in USMERA, an expanding NACPM Pilot Chapters Project, a webinar series to support state licensure and to inform members about CPM participation in ACA reforms, a 2014 year-end work group report on the development of the Practice Committee, initiatives to support the diversification of the workforce, and NACPM’s first virtual Annual Membership Meeting in March 2014!
Not a member of NACPM? Please consider joining or renewing today as a supporter, student, or CPM voting member. Every membership makes us stronger.
Interested in the NACPM Pilot Chapters Project? Form a pilot chapter in your state and enhance CPMs’ national influence to improve the maternity care system in the U.S. for all women, and promote, protect and defend the profession. Learn more from our website, and contact our Administrative Assistant for further information and help getting started. Also feel free to download and print the Pilot Project description and policy.
As always, we welcome your comments at any time. Please feel free to send your thoughts and ideas to executivedirector@nacpm.org and to admin@nacpm.org.
Mary Lawlor, Executive Director
Ellie Daniels, President