FOXX
FOUNDATION
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OUR MISSION
The What
The Foxx Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing maternal, infant, and reproductive health equity for underserved communities, including BIPOC, Queer, and low-income families.
Through community-based programming, access support, and culturally-responsive perinatal services, we work to reduce disparities in maternal and infant health outcomes and expand access to relationship-centered, midwifery-led care, including prenatal, birth, postpartum, wellness, and reproductive health support.
The Why
Black, Indigenous, Queer, and other historically marginalized communities continue to experience significant disparities in maternal and infant health outcomes due to systemic inequities, financial barriers, fragmented healthcare systems, and lack of access to culturally-responsive care.
Research consistently demonstrates that relationship-centered, midwifery-led models of care improve outcomes, reduce unnecessary interventions, and enhance client and family wellbeing throughout pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and reproductive health journeys.
The Barrier
Despite strong evidence supporting community-based midwifery care, access remains limited due to structural barriers within insurance reimbursement systems and inequitable healthcare funding models.
As a result, many families who would benefit most from continuity-based, culturally-responsive care are unable to access these services.
The How
Through philanthropic partnerships, community support, maternal health programming, and collaborative care initiatives, The Foxx Foundation works to reduce financial and systemic barriers to care for families historically underserved by traditional healthcare systems.
Our work supports access to community-based perinatal care, postpartum support, lactation services, reproductive health education, and relationship-centered care models that prioritize dignity, autonomy, safety, and informed decision-making.
The Need
Sustainable funding is critical to advancing maternal health equity and expanding access to community-based perinatal care for underserved families.
Support from donors, grants, and community partners allows The Foxx Foundation to continue strengthening maternal health programming, reducing barriers to care, and supporting families throughout the reproductive, pregnancy, birth, and postpartum continuum.
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We welcome both one-time and recurring donations, as well as connections to aligned funding and partnership opportunities that support maternal and infant health equity.
The Foxx Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing maternal, infant, and reproductive health equity for BIPOC, Queer, and underserved communities.
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In partnership with Mind Body Birth Wellness and Birthing Center in DTLA, we work to reduce financial and systemic barriers to culturally-responsive, community-based perinatal care through education, access support, care coordination, postpartum services, and maternal health programming.
The Foxx Foundation
with Mind Body Birth Wellness and Birthing Center
Downtown Los Angeles | California
OUR SERVICE
OUR SERVICES
FUNDING
One-on-one mentoring sessions, workshops & seminars
EDUCATION
SCHOLARSHIPS
HEALTH & WELLNESS
MIDWIVES + IMPROVING MATERNAL HEALTH
“A recent analysis found that a midwife workforce, integrated into health care delivery systems, could provide 80 percent of essential maternal care around the world and potentially avert 41 percent of maternal deaths, 39 percent of neonatal deaths, and 26 percent of stillbirths.”
“Midwives have a long history of providing high-quality, high-touch care to meet both the physiological and psychosocial needs of historically disenfranchised communities.”
“Inequitable Medicaid reimbursement rates and related state laws and regulations limit the adoption of midwives and community-based care models.”
“Private insurance coverage also varies by insurer and state, leading to inequitable access to midwifery care across the United States — a particularly acute problem for those seeking care in community settings. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation found that Black and Hispanic women, who are more likely to be uninsured or enrolled in Medicaid, have limited to no access to midwifery-led care.”
"Fully investing in midwives by 2035 would avert roughly two-thirds of maternal, newborn deaths, and stillbirths, saving 4.3 million lives per year."
5 May 2021 | Joint News Release | United Nations
“The 2021 State of World’s Midwifery report by UNFPA (the UN sexual and reproductive health agency), WHO (World Health Organization), International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) and partners, which evaluates the midwifery workforce and related health resources in 194 countries states that the acute shortage of midwives is exacting a terrible global toll in the form of preventable deaths.
In support, an analysis conducted for this report, published in the Lancet, showed that fully resourcing midwife-delivered care by 2035 could avert 67% of maternal deaths, 64% of newborn deaths and 65% of stillbirths.”
In a 2020 systematic review and meta-analyses of maternal outcomes and birth interventions among women who begin labor intending to give birth at home compared to women of low
obstetrical risk who intend to give birth in hospital, “no maternal deaths were reported among nearly 50,000 women included in the six studies.
Women in well integrated settings who intended to give birth at home compared with those planning a hospital birth were >40% less likely to give birth by cesarean section; >50% less likely to have an operative vaginal birth; 70%
less likely to use epidural analgesia; 55% less likely to have an episiotomy; >40% less likely to experience a 3rd or 4th degree perineal tear, and >60% less likely to receive oxytocin augmentation of labor.
Adverse maternal outcomes were also less frequent among those intending to give birth at home with: >75% fewer reporting maternal infection and >30% fewer reporting postpartum hemorrhage.”
WHO WE ARE
The Foxx Foundation was created in partnership with Mind Body Birth Wellness and Birthing Center, a Licensed Midwife-led reproductive and perinatal care center located in Downtown Los Angeles.
Rooted in a relationship-centered and community-based model of care, Mind Body Birth is dedicated to providing respectful, culturally-responsive, and individualized support throughout pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and reproductive health journeys.
Research consistently demonstrates that midwifery-led care improves maternal and infant health outcomes, particularly for communities disproportionately impacted by healthcare inequities. Yet structural and reimbursement barriers continue to limit access to these models of care for many families.
The Foxx Foundation works to reduce these barriers by expanding access to community-based perinatal care, maternal health programming, postpartum support, and culturally-responsive services for underserved families throughout Los Angeles County.
OUR IMPACT
A showcase of the empowered moments our clients experience under midwifery care
