Pro-choice Virginia Foundation

What it reported doing in 2024

Rise up for repro: student advocacy fellowship program seeks to prepare the next generation of leaders and changemakers in the reproductive health, rights, and justice movements. This program is an effective force for transforming students into advocates as they lead meaningful projects on their campuses or in surrounding communities. In this one-year academic program, two students are chosen for each campus and work as a team. Each fellow develops advocacy and leadership skills through a series of course modules, a capstone project, and an ongoing mentorship with a rrvaf staff organizer or graduate of the fellowship. To ensure that the projects include equity and highlight(continued on schedule o)intersectionality, we collaborate with community-based reproductive rights and social justice leaders and organizations to provide a full-spectrum progressive advocacy space. During the second semester, students choose a grassroots capstone project that will create direct change and service to the university community, such as identifying barriers to sexual and reproductive healthcare, raising awareness of the need for services or reforms, or developing pathways to establish policies and resources to make access to care a reality. Rrvaf is on 6-7 campuses per academic year.our positive presence campaign continues to be one of our most popular activities. Volunteers brave the heat and the snow to stand outside an abortion provider's healthcare center holding signs with positive/caring messages on days when the clinic is providing abortion services. Our activists serve as a supportive presence for the staff and patients, counteracting the negative energy and shaming tactics of anti-abortion protestors. As they are not verbally engaged with anti-abortion protesters, this activity has been found to be a reliable way to slowly introduce new volunteers to abortion rights activism. The program has proven to be an excellent example of an activity originally developed by rrvaf staff which is now solely coordinated by long-standing, dedicated volunteers and highly replicable.the changing minds through storytelling training program strives to normalize abortion care and the full spectrum of reproductive healthcare. Storytelling destigmatizes reproductive healthcare, builds compassion and empathy for those seeking abortion care, and motivates listeners to act. This is an interactive program providing participants with the tools needed to write a strong, effective story and become powerful abortion access advocates. The program's goals are to equip volunteers with effective storytelling tactics, build a storyteller pipeline that supports rrvaf's other programs, and create a story bank from which to draw. Storytellers share information about their lived experiences, band together with others to show power in numbers, and support culture change efforts by presenting their stories without shame or stigma. This training program is designed to build participants' confidence, which may lead them to speak on rrvaf sponsored panels, in discussion groups, and at educational events, gaining experience to possibly engage in more public-facing opportunities.repro on the record is a program that identifies opportunities for storytellers, volunteers, and allies willing to be "on the record" to educate policymakers, the media, and the public about their personal experiences with access reproductive healthcare.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 75.8%; rating input score 76
• Program expense ratio: 87%; rating input score 87
• Fundraising efficiency: $28.59 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 24th percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: 95.3%; rating input score 95; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: Pass
  • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Fail
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 14.3%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.15; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.16; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 0.3%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 9.7% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 10% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 11.7% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings