Our success improving maternal and infant health policy reflects decades of commitment to advocate with policymakers across the political spectrum for moms and babies.
Advocacy
Another year of powerful impact
12 new NICU Family Support® locations
with a total of 79 sites serving more than 52,000 families.
health professionals received live and online education.
33,000
were part of our Implicit Bias Training to help us close the health equity gap.
59%
Education
Programs
We’re there for the more than four million women who get pregnant each year in the U.S. to ensure they have access to the care they need before, during, and after pregnancy.
Research
With 360,000 preterm births each year, we’re improving outcomes for babies and their moms through research to discover the causes of prematurity; end preventable maternal and infant death; and achieve birth equity for all women, regardless of race or class.
Our country should be a safe place for everyone to give birth—but each year too many families face preterm birth, pregnancy-related complications and death, and inequities in care. With your support, here’s what we did in 2022 to help end this maternal and infant health crisis.
patients received care through our Mom & Baby Mobile Health Centers®. We also added a 40-foot mobile clinic to serve in Brooklyn and Queens in NYC.
Our newest Prematurity Research Center
Our PRC at the University of California, San Francisco joined five others in the U.S. and London to lead the way to find the causes and preventions of preterm birth.
Over 4,100
Healthcare professionals and families alike have come to trust March of Dimes. With 90% brand recognition, they rely on our high quality, award winning, evidenced-based education that we’ve offered for more than 40 years.
For professionals
Our consumer education reached
For families
over 9 million unique individuals.
Reporting on the problem
We convened national conversations on the maternal and infant health crisis, creating
54 billion media impressions
by publishing our Nowhere to Go: Maternity Care Deserts Across the U.S. report and the 2022 March of Dimes Report Card.
were advocated for, 49 of which were signed into law to improve health equity, access, and prevention nationwide.
FEDERAL AND STATE BILLS
38%
Our March of Dimes Advocacy Network grew by over
Our 2022 Accomplishments
$5.7 million
was granted to 42 awardees.
82 articles
were published in 62 unique journals.
We launched the March of Dimes Innovation Fund, a venture philanthropy initiative.
We engaged with over 100 companies
March of Dimes brings together thousands of volunteers, corporations, and people to build initiatives, collaborate, and turn the maternal and infant health crisis around.
Partnerships
with a total of 24,000 volunteers making an impact through military baby showers, disaster recovery, supporting families and healthcare workers in the NICU, and more.
Volunteer engagement
Programs
Education
Advocacy
Research
Partnerships
6,000 new volunteers joined us
with 80% of that going back into our mission to fight for the health of all moms and babies.
March for Babies and special events
We raised $29.5 million in March for Babies and more than $21 million in our special events
to improve perinatal and postpartum education.
Corporate Partner spotlights
advocates gathered at a national action-oriented M-BAN Summit to achieve together what we can’t achieve alone.
Collective Impact
with our Better Starts for All campaign to support at-risk women in maternity care deserts.
with more than 30,000 advocates fighting for the health of families.
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we can end preventable maternal health risks and death, end preterm birth, and close the health equity gap to give every family the best possible start.
to help us ensure every family is healthy today and for generations to come.
Local Collective Impact locations
Mom and Baby Action Network partners
More than 800
at the national, state, and local levels in our Mom and Baby Action Network (M-BAN) and more than 250 cross-sector organizations actively partner locally through Collective Impact.
Over 350 partners
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in the maternal and infant health space and completed one investment in 2022.
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through It Starts With Mom Live and our Healthy Moms, Strong Babies Webinars, which covered mom and baby topics.
Our education webinars had nearly
700,000 views
to ItStartsWithMom.org enabled women to get timely information for support during their pregnancy journey.
Over 213,000 unique visits
Our consumer education reached
over 9 million unique individuals.
