2018 IMPACT REPORT Dina and daughter, Kiteto, Tanzania LETTER FROM OUR FOUNDER 2018 IMPACT HIGHLIGHTS Never in recent history has the issue of maternal health in the United States been more important. Over the last two decades, maternal mortality rates have doubled In 2018, EMC achieved in the U.S., and rates of potentially fatal complications of pregnancy and childbirth the following milestones: 2 have also risen sharply. U.S. federal maternal Our team worked harder than ever in 2018 to health bills signed into law accelerate our work and address the contributing factors to these staggering and unacceptable statistics. We kicked the year off by participating in New Jersey’s first-ever Maternal Health Awareness Day, followed by a Capitol Hill briefing where we partnered with the American College of Nurse-Midwives, the American College of Christy (center) in Tokyo at the finish line Obstetricians and Gynecologists and others to 25 200 627 of her 8th TeamEMC marathon. brief Congress on the need to address shortages of maternity care providers in rural and urban films, screenings health facilities equipped health workers and areas. We supported Black Mamas Matter Alliance’s inaugural Black Maternal Health Week and events with portable solar power advocates trained and joined advocates and providers to raise national awareness in the second annual March for Moms in Washington D.C. We worked with lawmakers to push maternal health to the top of their agendas and, as a result, ended the year with a number of wins. The Governor of New York instituted Maternal Health Awareness Week and two federal bills were signed into law: the Preventing Maternal Deaths Act that aims to help states review pregnancy-related deaths and complications to save lives going forward, and the Improving Access to Maternity Act, By investing legislation that directs the government to identify and fill shortages of obstetricians and midwives. 21 Grants in We continued to elevate women’s voices through storytelling and premiered Giving Birth in America: California, the fifth installment in our GBA documentary series, 46,237 8,682 18 Grantees at the San Francisco Film Festival. women received skilled women received postnatal across reproductive or maternal education or visits Going into 2019, Every Mother Counts is well positioned to be a key force of continued momentum, both in the United States and globally. We are grateful for the commitment health care 8 Countries. and support from all our partners, and hope that we can count on you as we continue to push for progress and lasting change on behalf of every mother, everywhere. With gratitude, 21 18 8 Christy Turlington Burns Grants Grantees Countries Founder, Every Mother Counts IMPACT REPORT 2018 EVERY MOTHER COUNTS 3 OUR MISSION FINANCIALS SINCE 2012 Our mission is to make $14.2 Million pregnancy and childbirth safe Invested in grants, public education and community engagement. for every mother, everywhere. 86 Grants Advancing effective solutions that put women at the center. 21 Grantees Every two minutes, a woman dies from Working to improve access to quality, respectful complications of pregnancy and childbirth— and equitable maternity care. that’s more than 800 deaths every day around the world. We work to achieve quality, 725,000+ Lives respectful and equitable maternity care for all by supporting high-impact programs and Impacted around the world. working collaboratively with partners and thought leaders to increase awareness and mobilize communities to take action for change. 2018 FOCUS AREAS* Grant Giving $1,255,106 Public Education $971,555 $3,831,641 Community Engagement $908,499 G&A $343,148 Fundraising $353,333 *Unaudited as of December 31, 2018 40+25+5+5+M 2018 SOURCES OF FUNDING Individuals $2,224,065 Corporate & Product Partnerships $1,046,153 $3,529,646 Institutional Foundations $231,977 Investments/Misc. $27,451 Ana and child, Partimbo, Tanzania IMPACT REPORT 2018 Ending Net Assets in 2018: $4,279,309 60EVERY MOTHER COUNTS+3073M 5 2018 AT A GLANCE Investments Around the world, 300,000 women die by region every year from complications of pregnancy United States 23% and childbirth. Millions more suffer Latin America 17% life-threatening complications. Caribbean 24% South Asia 17% Sub-Saharan Africa 19% UNITED STATES Changing Woman Initiative† Commonsense Childbirth HAITI GUATEMALA Foundation for the Advancement Asociación Corazón del Agua of Haitian Midwives INDIA BANGLADESH Asociación de Comadronas de Area Mam Midwives For Haiti* Nazdeek HOPE Foundation for Women & Children of Bangladesh UGANDA Baylor College of Medicine INDONESIA Children’s Foundation Uganda Bumi Sehat TANZANIA Foundation for African Medicine and Education (FAME) Maasai Women Development Organization (MWEDO) KEY: CORE GRANTEE PARTNERS EMERGENCY GRANTS * Continuation of 15-month grant disbursed in 2017 † Continuation of 18-month grant disbursed in 2017 IMPACT REPORT 2018 EVERY MOTHER COUNTS 7 GRANT GIVING AND SUPPORT We invest in organizations We are strengthening When we invest in an organization, we invest in its leadership. We are based in the communities the leadership capacity committed to supporting groups led by women and people from the communities where they work. of the maternal health where they work, while helping build their capacity along the way in order to have workforce worldwide. outsized impact. Working with local partners in historically underserved communities, we help deliver high-impact, low-cost solutions to improve maternal health outcomes. We engage communities to advocate for systems change and elevate the voices of the care providers and women at the center of this work. DR. FRANK ARTRESS MARÍA AZUCENA FUENTES DÍAZ GABRIELA MELÉNDEZ AND SUSAN GUSTAFSON President Director and Co-Founders and Asociación de Comadronas Academic Coordinator Co-Directors de Area Mam Corazón del Agua Foundation for African — — OUR GRANTMAKING THERS AT T O HE IS GUIDED BY M C Medicine & Education G E — IN N JANE E. DRICHTA, MS, CPM, PGDIP NDININI FOUR KEY PRINCIPLES: C T A E Executive Director KIMESERA SIKAR L R P Midwives for Haiti MARTINE — JEAN-BAPTISTE Co-Founder and Director Maasai Women STREN NICOLLE GONZALES, BSN, RN, RE GT Development Organization A H MSN, CNM C E Executive Director — F N I O N Foundation for the Founder and S G “When we started MWEDO, L Advancement of Executive Director E H we felt as women that we D E Haitian Midwives Changing Woman Initiative A O — — needed to do something to L T M H “Our goal is to help Haitian support other women, and N C E JENNIE JOSEPH, LM, CPM A women have a voice; to help especially disadvantaged V R O Founder and E Haitian midwives have a women so they could gain R W P Executive Director O voice and to help them with their rights to an education, G R N I Commonsense Childbirth K C F their leadership skills, and their rights to healthcare and N O — A R V C E D S A networking and organizing, their rights to income.” so they can provide better care.” DR. IFTIKHER MAHMOOD JAYSHREE SATPUTE F Founder A Co-Founder and C SUKTI DHITAL, JD HOPE Foundation for I L S Executive Director I E Co-Founder Women and Children T C A R Nazdeek T U Nazdeek of Bangladesh IN O — — — G A ES CCESS TO R IMPACT REPORT 2018 EVERY MOTHER COUNTS 9 GRANT GIVING & SUPPORT: THE U.S. Changing Woman Initiative, DOULA COLLECTIVES a Native American-centered ACROSS THE US women’s health collective, We’re investing in focuses on growing public community-based doula We are working harder than ever awareness around Native programs: an enhanced American maternal health model of doula care that to improve maternal health outcomes issues and promoting provides comprehensive, traditional Native culturally-appropriate in the United States by addressing birthing practices. support to people in communities with a social determinants of health and greater risk of poor racial disparities. maternal outcomes. SisterWeb’s Telar de Comadres program trains, NEW YORK mentors and fosters the Despite spending more on maternity care than any other Black Mamas Matter leadership of Spanish- Alliance’s first-ever Black country, maternal mortality rates in the U.S. are worse speaking, Latinx doulas to Maternal Health Conference expand culturally-relevant than in any other comparably wealthy country. convened leaders, providers care to San Francisco’s and advocates to raise underserved families. awareness and inspire solutions to the maternal health crisis facing Black Ancient Song Doula women in the U.S. CALIFORNIA United States Services’ third annual Decolonize Birth conference $1M invested examined how racial and gender disparities NEW MEXICO GEORGIA since 2013 disproportionately impact The launch of our fifth the experiences and outcomes of women Giving Birth in America (GBA) film shared LOUISIANA the plight of migrant mothers in California, and families of color. a state where pregnant women are eligible for Medicaid regardless of immigration status. FLORIDA Birthmark Doulas Collective is a birth justice Commonsense Childbirth organization in Louisiana Across the U.S., founder Jennie Joseph’s standard making doula care more Black and Native of maternity care, aptly named accessible to all women American women are regardless of income. three times more likely “The JJ Way,” was featured in the New York Times as one of the most to die from complications of pregnancy and childbirth promising models for eliminating than white women. health disparities in birth outcomes among marginalized women of color. IMPACT REPORT 2018 EVERY MOTHER COUNTS 11 GRANT GIVING & SUPPORT: HAITI & GUATEMALA Guatemala’s Indigenous midwives, comadronas, act as vital links to We support programs that are important cultural traditions and are the principal source of care increasing access to compassionate, Guatemala for Guatemala’s most at-risk populations—Indigenous mothers professional providers such as midwives.