2026 Mid-Year Donor Report: Scholarships, Research, Expanded Collaborations, and More

NACPM is excited to share our 2026 Mid-Year Donor Report — a look at what supporters helped make possible in the first six months of this year. The short version: we expanded collaboration across the field, while continuing progress in growing the midwifery workforce and building an NACPM infrastructure to carry us strong into 2027.

What’s New — and Why It Matters

This spring, NACPM expanded community-rooted partnerships and received awards from the Skyline Foundation, Wagner Foundation, Pritzker Children’s Initiative, Oregon State University Foundation, and Johns Hopkins University. These investments are fueling collaborative work with key allies, including:

• Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs

• American Civil Liberties Union

• American College of Nurse-Midwives

• Birth Center Equity

• Birth Place Lab

• Center for Reproductive Rights

• Elephant Circle

• Every Mother Counts

• Foundation for Health Care Quality

• Institute for Medicaid Innovation

• Institute for Women’s Policy Research

• March of Dimes

• National Association to Advance Black Birth

• National Black Midwives Alliance

• National Partnership for Women and Families

• Native Midwives Association

• Pacific Legal Foundation

• Primary Maternity Care

• Uplift Labs

Together, these relationships help us advance an equitable, integrated, midwifery-focused perinatal system — one that centers community birth, accountability, and access.

Our New, Philanthropic Engine: National Foundation for Certified Professional Midwives (NFCPM)

This year we also built upon 2025’s establishment of our 501(c)(3) sister organization and fiscal sponsor, the National Foundation for Certified Professional Midwives (NFCPM). Serving as a dedicated platform to grow charitable investment and sustain long-term impact, NFCPM is designed to:

• Grow philanthropic investment for CPMs and CPM allies

• Sustain scholarship, research, and systems-integration projects

• Accelerate equity-focused workforce development for CPMs

Working in tandem, NACPM (the CPM professional association) and NFCPM (a charitable foundation dedicated to CPMs) give this movement both the advocacy strength and the philanthropic capacity needed to scale.

Inside the Report

• Milestones from the first half of 2026

• Partnership spotlights and funded collaborations

• Progress toward a robust community birth ecosystem

• What’s next for the second half of 2026

Fuel What’s Next

• Support the steadfast work we do at NACPM with a gift to our capital funds campaign

• Fund our scholarships! 👉 Tanya Khemet Taiwo Midwifery Student Scholarship and the The Bigger Table Fund

Our supporters’ belief in this work allows us to move both efficiently and thoughtfully. NACPM extends our heartfelt gratitude for standing with us and the communities we serve.