Pregnancy help personnel from Life Launch pregnancy centers gathered at the recent Heartbeat International Annual Pregnancy Help Conference to network, share successes and progress, and celebrate Life Launch program achievements.
The Life Launch Grant program was designed to inspire a new season of growth for pregnancy help centers in underserved communities, fostering more life-saving outreach as an alternative to Big Abortion. The grant helps pregnancy help start-ups to open their doors and advance pregnancy help to new communities in the U.S. and beyond. The grant includes training, resources, and other benefits for new centers.
Heartbeat International is the largest network of pregnancy help in the U.S. and the world. Its Life Launch Grant program demonstrates the positive impact that pregnancy help has on the lives of women and families, with centers in the program assisted in becoming viable and effectively serving people in need.
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Since its establishment in 2018 the Life Launch Grant has made significant strides in nurturing pregnancy help.
As of 2024, 78% of the Life Launch program’s recipients were located in U.S. counties that had previously been without pregnancy help, meaning that because of the Life Launch Grant program more than 1.5 million people in those areas came to have access to pregnancy help services where they did not before (based on 2021 Census data). The Life Launch program has been instrumental in making unprecedented life-affirming advocacy available in these communities. There are 39 Life Launch Grant recipients in 22 U.S. states and one international center.
The gathering of Life Launch centers at the Heartbeat Conference is an occasion where the center personnel can meet each other and also serves as an in-person Life Launch Advancement ceremony during which the organizations that have reached their grant program milestones are celebrated.
“This was a wonderful opportunity for the centers to meet with fellow Life Launchers and "talk shop" with peers who are also in the unique experience of starting a pregnancy help organization from the ground up,” said Sara Dominguez, Affiliate Services specialist for Heartbeat International. “It was also a time for centers advancing in the program are recognized.”
This year, three of the Life Launch Grant program’s eight Advancees were present for the ceremony:
Life More Abundantly - Phoenix, Ariz. – represented by Executive Director Elouise Nathaniel
Gianna’s House - Brewster, New York – represented by Executive Director Julie Noce
Pregnancy Care and Hope Center - Greenwood, Miss. – represented by Executive Director Dayna Clunan
These centers received a certificate of advancement and a small gift.
"It's always such a joy to be able to celebrate these remarkable groups who saw the need for pregnancy help within their own communities and did the hard work to bring care and support directly to families,” Dominguez said. “These organizations have reached tremendous milestones, from Board governance and open doors to first clients and new programs and services.”
“We congratulate them on these accomplishments and more!" Dominguez said.
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Life Launch Grant program centers present for the gathering at the 2025 Heartbeat Conference in Birmingham, Ala.:
- Life More Abundantly (Phoenix, Ariz.) - Advancee
- Gianna’s House (Brewster, New York) - Advancee
- Pregnancy Care and Hope Center (Greenwood, Miss.) - Advancee
- Arms of Grace Pregnancy Resource Center (Burlington, N.C.)
- Restore Reproductive Health (Hondo, Texas)
- Juneau Pregnancy Resource Center (Juneau, Ala.)
- Life Choices Resource Center (Harriman, Tenn.)
- Created with Purpose of West Texas (Bovina, Texas)
- Life Choice Pregnancy Center of Western North Carolina (Bryson City, N.C.)
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