Addressing Period Poverty
& Menstrual Equity
Our six grant recipients have used their grant funds for:
✓ A van to distribute products
✓ Translating a period guide into a number of different languages including Indigenous languages
✓ Operating costs to support with distribution and programming
✓ Providing affordable menstrual products to Northern Indigenous Communities
✓ Programming to provide menstrual health education to youth
For Women By Women, Period
An organization led by young Black women in NYC that work to provide comfort to those in difficult living decisions during their menstrual cycle.
The Period Purse
Works to achieve menstrual equity by providing people who menstruate access to free menstrual products, and reduce the negative stigmas associated with periods.
#happyperiod
The first Black-led organization with a focus on menstrual health education, advocacy, and access for adolescents and teens.
Moon Time Sisters
Moon Time Sisters is the only Indigenous-led period equity group in Canada. Focused on supplying northern, remote Indigenous communities with a variety of community-requested period products.
Helping Women Period
A Michigan-based organization focused on donating menstrual products to those in need and advocating at all levels to increase the accessibility of menstrual products.
United Way British Columbia
The United Way’s Period Promise campaign guide increases access to free menstrual products in public spaces within our community.
Docs for change
A collaboration between Knix and Catalyst, to self-finance and produce female-forward stories that ignite conversation and inspire change.
Catalyst is a mission-driven, for-profit business dedicated to catalyzing the creation of commercially viable content for an underserved global market by powering women creators and investing in their ideas.
By partnering with like-minded filmmakers, this initiative will fully fund eye-opening feature documentaries about issues and stories that matter and speak to women, with the aim of igniting meaningful dialogue, breaking historical barriers, ending stigma, igniting conversation and inspiring change.