activities · 8
what they do
advocacy · 8
- Advocating for Fair Start family planning legislation State Legislative Advocacy for Health & Child/Family PolicyHAVING KIDS advocates for policies that ensure every child has a fair start in life, primarily through promoting family planning models and legislation. This includes sending letters to legislative bodies and publishing open letters to administrations.
- Donor-Fund Governance and Institutional Accountability InquiriesConducts written inquiries and regulatory referrals regarding donor-funded programs, focusing on governance transparency and undisclosed assumptions, as demonstrated by actions directed at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law.
- Fair Start Family Planning Advocacy State Legislative Advocacy for Health & Child/Family PolicyAdvocates for systemic changes in family planning policies by promoting the Fair Start model, which aims to ensure children's right to a fair start in life. This includes pushing for legislative amendments such as requiring states to enact Fair Start legislation through reform of CAPTA.
- Investigating governance and assumptions in academic institutionsHAVING KIDS conducts written inquiries and regulatory referrals concerning donor-fund governance and undisclosed baseline assumptions at academic institutions, specifically citing the University of Denver Sturm College of Law.
- Operating the Fair Start Movement’s Tell the Truth CampaignHAVING KIDS runs "The Fair Start Movement’s Tell the Truth Campaign" to challenge what it identifies as performative public interest work and equity fraud.
- Political Equity and Democratic Voice Advocacy Youth & Community Voter RegistrationDevelops and promotes legal frameworks for political equity, including proposing model constitutional actions that would allow individuals to sue to protect their effective voice in democratic processes.
- Proposing constitutional action for political equity Youth & Community Voter RegistrationHAVING KIDS proposes a model for constitutional action that allows individuals to sue to protect their effective voice in democracy, aiming to address political equity.
- Tell the Truth Campaign Against Equity Fraud Policy & Systems AdvocacyOperates the "Tell the Truth Campaign" under the Fair Start Movement to challenge what the organization perceives as performative public interest work and equity fraud in social policy and advocacy spaces.
strategies · 9
how they think
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- Advocating for Legal and Judicial Interventions to Protect Children child-centered_judicial_interventionThe organization advocates for noncoercive, child-centered judicial orders to prevent convicted abusers from having additional children as a condition of probation. Additionally, they believe in legal advocacy to ensure individuals' effective voice in democracy and control over political system outcomes, with governments obligated to ensure this.
- Advocating for a "Fair Start" for every child fair_start_principleHAVING KIDS advocates for the fundamental human right of every child to a "Fair Start" in life, encompassing ecological and social well-being, and believes this principle should guide family planning and policy decisions to ensure equity and intergenerational justice.
- Advocating for a Child-Centered "Fair Start" in Family Planning fair_start_family_planningHAVING KIDS advocates for a child-centered approach to family planning, moving away from parent-centric models. This approach, termed "Fair Start," aims to ensure every child is born into conditions that uphold their fundamental rights, including equity of opportunity, environmental safety, and a voice in systems that shape their lives. This is seen as a method to reduce intergenerational inequalities, strengthen democracy, and preserve the planet.
- Child-centered family planning and judicial intervention child-centered family planningHAVING KIDS promotes a child-centered approach to family planning, encouraging delayed childbearing until parents are ready to reduce abuse risks, and advocates for noncoercive judicial orders to prevent convicted abusers from having additional children as a condition of probation.
- Equity-centered policy and legal advocacy equity-centered_policy_advocacyHAVING KIDS advocates for equity as a foundational principle in all policy areas, including legal actions, reparations, and economic instruments, and challenges population-centric views of global crises by emphasizing political inequity and advocating for birth equity reparations and legal avenues for individuals to protect their political voice.
- Intergenerational justice through policy and wealth redistribution intergenerational_justice_advocacyHAVING KIDS aims to ensure every child's fundamental rights by advocating for policies that prioritize intergenerational justice, support caregivers, address inequality and ecological harm, and proposes funding these initiatives through wealth redistribution to redress wealth created by unsustainable systems.
- Promoting Intergenerational Justice and Equity through Policy intergenerational_justice_advocacyThe organization focuses on achieving intergenerational justice by advocating for policies that prioritize the rights and well-being of future generations. This includes ensuring birth equity, environmental safety, and political agency for children, and addressing root causes of inequality and ecological harm through policy changes and wealth redistribution.
- Standards-based certification for organizational equity and climate resilience standards-based certification frameworkHAVING KIDS employs a tiered, standards-based certification framework across governance, reparative investment, workforce/family benefits, and environmental stewardship to help organizations demonstrate increasing commitment to equity and climate resilience.
- Utilizing Standards-Based Certification for Equity and Climate Resilience standards-based_certification_frameworkHAVING KIDS employs a tiered, standards-based certification framework across four domains—governance and accountability, reparative investment, workforce and family benefits, and environmental stewardship—to advance equity and climate resilience. This model allows organizations to demonstrate increasing levels of commitment and impact over time.
named programs · 3
what they call their work
Fair Start Model
A family planning framework that prioritizes child equity, ecological sustainability, and democratic integrity by ensuring every child has a fair start in life through systemic reform of procreation norms and policies.
FalseClaimsChecker.org
Initiative promoting a binary disclosure standard for public-impact claims, aiming to hold organizations and individuals accountable for baseline assumptions in their advocacy and research.
Tell the Truth Campaign
Public advocacy initiative challenging nonprofits, academics, and institutions for what the organization views as misleading claims about climate and equity impacts, particularly regarding population growth and family planning.
relationships · 5
who they work with
- Fair Start Movement Partner — HAVING KIDS partners with Fair Start Movement projects in Colorado.
- Joe Biden’s Administration Government — Addressed an open letter to the administration regarding family planning systems.
- Population Balance Partner — Fact-checked Nandita Bajaj and Population Balance regarding their approach to population and inequity.
- Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Partner — Recipient of advocacy letter urging amendment of CAPTA to include Fair Start legislation.
- University of Denver Sturm College of Law Partner — Initiated scrutiny through written inquiries and regulatory referrals regarding donor-fund governance and baseline assumptions.