Planned Parenthood of Northern

PPNNE's organizing and policy program integrates public education, advocacy, collaboration, media strategies, and grassroots mobilization. These efforts are conducted in tandem with Planned Parenthood Action Fund organizations in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont and in collaboration with community partners. This state-level work - including advocating for sexual and reproductive health and freedom, expanded health care access, particularly for family planning and preventative health care services, and other beneficial policies - promotes public health, equity, and economic security statewide. Highlights from FY24 included collaboratively defeating anti-reproductive health bills; securing policies to improve coverage of reproductive and sexual health care services, enhance patient access, and more; advancing PPNNE's unique deep canvassing program through community member trainings, phone banking, and door-to-door canvassing; supporting campus organizing by student leaders; and working with volunteers across our three states to deepen and grow grassroots organizing capacity. For more, see https://www.plannedparenthood.org/planned-parenthood-northern-new-england/get-involved-locally

PPNNE's communications and marketing program works to increase awareness of PPNNE services, our sexual health expertise, and our accessible, affordable, and nonjudgmental care - leading to more underserved people receiving services. This multi-faceted work includes updating web content, health center signage, social media, patient communications, digital and print ads, and more. In FY24, this work continued to play a key role in ensuring that people knew they could rely on PPNNE for essential sexual and reproductive health care. As one indicator of the effectiveness of this outreach, during FY24 PPNNE served 32,994 patients who were new or hadn't been seen in the past three years, primarily young people and those with low incomes.