The Peg Johnston Innovation Fund was created to support bold ideas that expand how people experience, understand, and make meaning of abortion.
Named in honor of Peg Johnston—a pioneer in abortion counseling, emotional support, and reflective practice—this fund recognizes that while access to abortion remains essential, the experience of abortion also matters.
For decades, the abortion field has focused on access, legality, and service delivery. Yet millions of people continue to move through abortion carrying questions about meaning, identity, spirituality, grief, relief, transformation, relationships, and the stories they tell themselves about their experiences.
The Peg Johnston Innovation Fund seeks to support the next generation of projects exploring these dimensions of abortion.
We are looking for ideas that challenge assumptions, create new possibilities, and help people navigate abortion with greater understanding, agency, connection, and meaning.
What We Fund
We welcome projects that expand the field's understanding of abortion experience, including:
- Counseling and emotional support
- Abortion doula models
- Storytelling and narrative work
- Spiritual and meaning-making resources
- Community-based support initiatives
- Research and evaluation
- Educational tools and curricula
- Digital products and technology
- Art, film, writing, and creative practice
- New approaches to accompaniment and care
We are particularly interested in projects that explore questions such as:
- What aspects of abortion remain overlooked or underserved?
- How can we better support people before, during, and after abortion?
- What new forms of care, reflection, storytelling, or accompaniment are possible?
- How might abortion be understood as more than a medical event?
- What innovations could transform the lived experience of abortion?
Peg Johnston Innovation Grants 2026
Emerging Visionary Award — $5,000
For new ideas, early-stage projects, artists, researchers, doulas, storytellers, organizers, and grassroots innovators with a bold vision for the future of abortion support and care.
Peg Johnston Innovation Award — $10,000
For established organizations, projects, and initiatives developing transformative approaches to abortion experience, accompaniment, counseling, storytelling, education, and support.
Eligibility
Applications are welcome from individuals, collectives, researchers, artists, community leaders, doulas, nonprofits, fiscally sponsored projects, and organizations working anywhere in the world.
We welcome both practical and visionary ideas. Applicants do not need to work within traditional healthcare systems to be considered.
Timeline
Applications Open: June 21, 2026
Applications Close: September 15, 2026
Awardees Announced: September 30, 2026
Why This Fund
We may never fully transform public opinion about abortion.
But we can transform how individuals experience their own abortions.
The Peg Johnston Innovation Fund exists to support projects that help people feel more supported, more connected to themselves, and more able to understand their abortion within the context of their own lives.
We believe the future of abortion care will be shaped not only by access, but by imagination.
And we are investing in the people building that future.