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Thank You to Our Funders

The Center for the Childbearing Year (CCY) receives grant funding and tax-deductible donations that underwrite costs associated with our premier charitable program, the Doulas Care community-based volunteer doula service.

Current funders include the following:

The Ann Arbor Thrift Shop

The Ann Arbor Thrift Shop has awarded the Anne M. Hayes Memorial Fund Grant to the Center for 2007. The purpose of the grant is to increase the number of families in the city of Ann Arbor served by the Doulas Care volunteer program. Doula training scholarships are available for low-income Ann Arbor women seeking to participate as volunteers in the program

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan has awarded CCY grants in 2006 and 2007 to support education and service initiatives aimed at the prevention of postpartum depression.

James A. and Faith Knight Foundation

The James A. and Faith Knight Foundation has awarded CCY a grant for 2006-07 to support expansion of the Doulas Care Program in Jackson county. Scholarship funds are being provided to train more doulas interested in volunteering their services with expectant teen mothers and other pregnant women with limited resources in the county.

W.K. Kellogg Foundation

The Center has received funding support for the Doulas Care Program from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation from 2002-2008. Thanks to Kellogg, we developed a Doula Resource Center on the premises, witnessed steady program growth each year, consolidated the program infrastructure, developed a strong evaluation component, supported numerous low-income women with scholarships for doula training, and more! We are very grateful to Kellogg for their generous support on behalf of childbearing women in southeastern Michigan.

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation was established in 1930 to help people help themselves through the practical application of knowledge and resources to improve their quality of life and that of future generations. Its programming activities center around the common vision of a world in which each person has a sense of worth; accepts responsibility for self, family, community and societal well-being; and has the capacity to be productive, and to help create nurturing families, responsive institutions, and healthy communities. To achieve the greatest impact, the Foundation targets its grants toward specific areas. These include: health; food systems and rural development; youth and education; and philanthropy and volunteerism. Within these areas, attention is given to the cross-cutting themes of leadership; information and communication technology; capitalizing on diversity; and social and economic community development. Grants are concentrated in the United States, Latin America and the Carribean, and the southern African countries of Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, and South Africa, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe.

Past Funders include the following.

Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation awarded CCY an organizational capacity-building grant in 2004. AAACF is dedicated to building endowment to enrich the quality of life in Washtenaw County by providing community leadership, making grants, and serving donors.

The March of Dimes provided three years of funding, from 2003-2005, in support of the Doulas Care Program. The March of Dimes is a national voluntary agency whose mission is to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects and infant mortality. Founded in 1938, the March of Dimes funds programs of research, community service, education, and advocacy to save babies. More information is available on the March of Dimes website.

The Michigan Women's Foundation awarded CCY its first grant in 2001 to launch the doula training scholarship program and provide support for Doulas Care.

Pfizer Corporation awarded the Center a grant in 2003-04 to train community-based doulas for the Doulas Care Program. In 2004-05, Pfizer awarded a grant to the Doulas Care Program to expand outreach to, and provide doula support for the Latino community of Washtenaw County.

Ypsilanti-Area Beyer Memorial Health Foundation awarded CCY a grant in October 2005-06 to support expanded outreach for the Doulas Care Program in Ypsilanti. The grant provided scholarships for eight Ypsilanti area women to become doulas and provide services to pregnant women in the Ypsilanti area. 

Ypsilanti Area Community Foundation awarded the Center a grant for 2005-06 to support expanded outreach for the Doulas Care Program in Ypsilanti. The grant provided for scholarships for six Ypsilanti-area women to become doulas and provide services to low-income pregnant women in the Ypsilanti area.