Cash aims to boost grassroots reproductive rights groups that are sometimes marginalised for their contentious agendas
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A 15m (£12m) fund to support small, grassroots organisations that are defending sexual and reproductive health and rights was launched in New York on Monday.
The Amplify Change fund, financed by the Danish and Dutch governments, along with the David and Lucile Packard and William and Flora Hewlett foundations, will provide a new stream of cash for local groups that often fail to attract finance for their work from mainstream donors for political or religious reasons, or because the size of the organisations deem them too risky an investment.
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