Maternity Foundation is an Action for Women’s Health Awardee
Copenhagen, November 12, 2025 – Maternity Foundation has been announced as one of 80+ organizations that were awarded funding through Action for Women’s Health, a $250 million global open call, launched in 2024 to support organizations working to improve women’s mental and physical health around the world.
Although women make up half of the world’s population, they face inequities in nearly every aspect of their health. Women’s health is chronically underfunded and under-researched, and even when resources and solutions do exist, they often aren’t reaching the women who need them.
With this funding, Maternity Foundation will accelerate its work to promote healthier pregnancies and safer births in fragile settings across the globe. Specifically, the grant will enable the development of a future-proof Safe Delivery Platform that will provide midwives with intelligent, interactive, personalised learning and clinical training. To date, Maternity Foundation has reached and supported over 500,000 healthcare professionals worldwide through its micro-learning and digital job solution, the Safe Delivery App. Now, this next-generation platform, including migration of the existing Safe Delivery App into the new platform, will ensure that midwives can continue to deliver life-saving care to mothers and newborns—smarter, anywhere, anytime.
“Becoming an Action for Women’s Health Awardee is a huge milestone for us,” said Anna Frellsen, CEO of Maternity Foundation. “This funding unlocks the opportunity to build the long-awaited next version of our digital Safe Delivery Platform—making it even more intelligent, interactive, and resilient for midwives today, tomorrow, and for years to come. We are deeply proud and grateful.”
Over 4,000 organizations from 119 countries applied, offering solutions across the lifespan for women. After a rigorous peer and expert review process, 80+ organizations have been identified, many of whom have historically lacked access to major funding streams. This funding will have real impact for women across geographies, life stages, and identities.
Action for Women’s Health is funded by Pivotal, a group of impact organizations founded by Melinda French Gates, and managed by Lever for Change, an organization with a track record of identifying bold ideas to solve the world’s most pressing problems.
More information about the initiative and awardees is available at: https://leverforchange.org/open-calls/action-for-womens-health.
Contact:
Head of communication, Helle Degn; helle@maternity.dk
Maternity Foundation:
Maternity Foundation is an international non-governmental organisation, working to ensure safer births for women and newborns – everywhere! We build skills and knowledge among midwives and other healthcare professionals in remote and fragile settings through effective learning and training programmes and the proven digital health solution, the free and offline capable Safe Delivery App.
