Abortion Conversation Projects

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Abortion Conversation Projects We support projects that encourage open and honest conversations about abortion that de-stigmatize those involved in an abortion experience.

We recognize the transformative power of pregnancy and all its possibilities. We envision a world in which the choice of abortion is affirmed as a moral decision without stigma. We believe that open and honest conversations, in a safe environment, about the experience of abortion will begin to create this world. Abortion Conversation Projects is committed to eliminating the stigma of abortion by creating and supporting new ways and opportunities to talk about abortion honestly and publicly. The real life experiences of people who choose abortion, those who support them and abortion care providers will enable all people to better understand and appreciate the complex moral decision making surrounding a pregnancy decision. We pledge open conversations that do not demonize those with differing views, or convince anyone that we are “right”. We realize that decisions about pregnancy bring up issues of life, death, s*x, parenthood, and so much more. We want to create safe spaces for women and men to consider what is best for their lives.

Thank you to everyone that applied ! We had an overwhelming response and brilliant ideas from all of you ♡ We will be in...
10/01/2026

Thank you to everyone that applied ! We had an overwhelming response and brilliant ideas from all of you ♡

We will be in touch shortly with shortlisted applications.

Stay tuned for the winners !

PEG IS WATCHING ♡

Deadline extended ! Some of the best ideas in abortion work have sounded too strange, too radical, or too far ahead of t...
09/16/2026

Deadline extended ! Some of the best ideas in abortion work have sounded too strange, too radical, or too far ahead of their time—until they weren’t.

The Peg Johnston Emerging Visionary Award is for exactly those ideas.

We’re looking for emerging leaders, artists, doulas, researchers, storytellers, grassroots innovators—and people who may not have a title for what they’re building yet.

You don’t need an established organization. You don’t need a huge project. You need a bold idea that could change how we understand, talk about, experience, or support abortion.

$5,000 to help make it real.

Too ahead of its time.
Too rogue.
Too hard to fund.

Perfect.

Applications for the 2026 Peg Johnston Innovation Fund Emerging Visionary Award are due September 28, 2026.

THE PEG JOHNSTON INNOVATION FUND DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED.This is the first year we are offering the Peg Johnston Inno...
09/12/2026

THE PEG JOHNSTON INNOVATION FUND DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED.

This is the first year we are offering the Peg Johnston Innovation Fund—and the response over the past several days has been enormous.

We are hearing from abortion workers, artists, researchers, doulas, organizers, storytellers, counselors and people with ideas that don’t fit neatly into the usual boxes of abortion funding.

We want to give those ideas more time.

The new application deadline is September 29, 2026.

The fund may be new. The work behind it is not.

For more than 25 years, Abortion Conversation Projects (ACP) has created space for the conversations about abortion that the larger movement has sometimes struggled to hold: stigma, emotional complexity, spirituality, relationships, counseling, storytelling, meaning-making, and the messy reality of people’s actual abortion experiences.

In 2012, ACP began putting money directly behind this work, providing seed grants to small, grassroots and experimental projects. Since then, ACP has supported dozens of initiatives working to change how abortion is talked about, understood and experienced.

Peg Johnston was at the heart of that history.

An abortion provider since 1981, Peg helped found ACP and the Abortion Care Network and created the Pregnancy Options Workbooks. For decades, she insisted on something both simple and radical: people who have abortions deserve more than political talking points. They deserve room for the full truth of their experiences.

The Peg Johnston Innovation Fund carries that legacy forward.

We want the ideas that are hard to categorize.

The ideas that might be too early, too unusual, too intimate, too creative—or simply too abortion-seeker-centered—for conventional funding.

Ideas that rethink abortion accompaniment, counseling, storytelling, education, emotional and spiritual support, community care, meaning-making, and how abortion itself can be experienced.

Because abortion access matters enormously. And so does the experience of the person having the abortion.

The Peg Johnston Innovation Fund will award $5,000 and $10,000 grants to people and projects imagining new possibilities for abortion care and culture

Are you Peg Coded?Peg Johnston spent decades pushing abortion care beyond politics and toward the actual, complicated, d...
09/12/2026

Are you Peg Coded?

Peg Johnston spent decades pushing abortion care beyond politics and toward the actual, complicated, deeply individual experiences of people having abortions.

That’s what we mean by Peg Coded:

Abortion work designed around the person having the abortion—not the politics surrounding it.
It means listening before deciding what people need. Making room for relief, grief, certainty, ambivalence, humor, anger, connection, or simply wanting to get on with your life. It means refusing to flatten abortion into a political narrative when the lived experience is so much bigger.

The Peg Johnston Innovation Fund exists to fund ideas that carry that spirit forward.

If you have an unconventional, creative, practical, or disruptive idea that could make abortion care better for the people actually having abortions, ACP wants to hear it.

Two awards: $5,000 + $10,000

Applications due September 15, 2026.

Got a Peg Coded idea? We want to fund it

What is the future of abortion care?The Peg Johnston Innovation Fund is looking for bold ideas that challenge how we thi...
09/09/2026

What is the future of abortion care?

The Peg Johnston Innovation Fund is looking for bold ideas that challenge how we think about abortion, expand access, and imagine what abortion care could become.

We’re interested in the ideas that don’t quite fit anywhere else yet. New models. New approaches. The thing you keep thinking, “someone should do this.”

Two awards will be made: $10,000 for an established project $5,000 for an emerging idea or project

Applications are open now and due September 15, 2026.

If you have an idea that could change abortion care, we want to hear it.

Apply. Share this with someone doing interesting work. Help us find what comes next.

A gentle reminder: we're not funding more of the same.We're looking for ideas with the potential to reshape abortion car...
07/10/2026

A gentle reminder: we're not funding more of the same.

We're looking for ideas with the potential to reshape abortion care—not replicate existing trainings, counseling models, or programs.

If your idea feels a little risky, unconventional, or ahead of its time, you're probably getting closer.

Dream bigger. The field needs it.

Applications are open until September 15, 2026. Visit our website for eligibility, guidelines, and how to apply.

Every movement has its visionaries. The people who ask the questions others are afraid to ask.Peg Johnston was one of th...
06/30/2026

Every movement has its visionaries. The people who ask the questions others are afraid to ask.

Peg Johnston was one of them.

In the 1990s, as the abortion rights movement fought to protect legal abortion from relentless attacks, there was real concern that acknowledging grief, regret, or trauma would give anti-abortion activists am******on.

In trying to protect abortion, we sometimes narrowed the conversation around abortion.

People whose experiences were more complex—those carrying grief alongside relief, certainty alongside sadness—were often left wondering where they belonged.

Peg refused.

She believed you could be unapologetically pro-choice while making room for the full humanity of abortion. She understood that abortion is not simply the act of ending a pregnancy. It is an experience that can touch our bodies, relationships, beliefs, identities, and futures. No one else gets to decide what it means.

Through her counseling, writing, and groundbreaking workbooks, she invited people to ask a different question:

What does this abortion mean to me?

That question changed lives.

The Peg Johnston Innovation Fund honors that lineage by investing in the next generation of people willing to expand abortion care beyond the expected. We are looking for bold ideas that make room for the whole person, not just the procedure.

Because legacy isn't made by coloring inside the lines.

Neither is revolution.

Funding isn't neutral.Every grant application asks us to fit our work into categories that already exist. Into prioritie...
06/26/2026

Funding isn't neutral.

Every grant application asks us to fit our work into categories that already exist. Into priorities that are already familiar. Into language that funders already recognize.

But innovation rarely begins there.

Some of the most transformative ideas in abortion care have emerged from the margins: from communities overlooked by traditional funding, from practitioners working outside institutional walls, and from people responding to needs that hadn't yet been named.

For decades, the Abortion Conversations Project has funded projects across borders because we believe ideas don't belong to one country. Neither does leadership. Neither does innovation.

The Peg Johnston Innovation Fund exists for the work that doesn't quite fit the boxes—but has the power to change the field.

Because feminist funding isn't about where you are.

It's about what becomes possible when we invest in bold ideas, wherever they begin.

Applications are now open.

Check out www.abortionconversationprojects.org for more info or to apply

The next frontier in abortion care is human experience. We're funding the people and ideas shaping it.The Peg Johnston I...
06/24/2026

The next frontier in abortion care is human experience. We're funding the people and ideas shaping it.

The Peg Johnston Innovation Fund supports projects that expand how people understand, navigate, and make meaning of abortion.
We are looking for bold ideas that challenge assumptions, create new possibilities, and deepen the human experience of abortion—through counseling, storytelling, art, education, technology, research, spiritual care, community support, and beyond.

Whether you're building something new or growing an existing project, we want to hear from you.

Applications open through September 15, 2026. Apply today.

The Peg Johnston Innovation Fund is now open! For decades, Peg Johnston helped shape the field of abortion counseling th...
06/20/2026

The Peg Johnston Innovation Fund is now open!

For decades, Peg Johnston helped shape the field of abortion counseling through workbooks, reflection tools, and approaches that honored the full humanity of abortion seekers.

This fund was created in her honor.

We are seeking projects, tools, research, art, technology, counseling models, and bold new ideas that help people better understand and experience their abortions.

While we may never fully transform society's beliefs about abortion, we can transform how individuals understand and experience their own abortions.

Two awards will be granted annually:

• $10,000 Established Project Award
• $5,000 Emerging Visionary Award

If you are building something that centers the lived experience of abortion, we want to hear from you.

Applications open now and close September 15, 2026.

Apply through the link in our bio.

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PO Box 76056
Saint Petersburg, FL
33734

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