Company Profile
Population Connection
Company Overview
Our population passed the 8 billion mark in 2022, and we are on track to exceed 10 billion in the second half of this century. Our massive numbers and our unsustainable consumption harm the planet, perpetuate poverty, and compromise public health.
Population Connection raises awareness about the impacts of global population growth on our environment and human well-being. We make the connection between advancing reproductive rights and health and preserving the natural world.
Worldwide, an estimated 257 million women, 218 million of whom live in developing countries, want to avoid pregnancy but have an unmet need for modern contraception. With universal, affordable access to family planning, we can improve people’s lives, protect the environment, and forge a healthier, more sustainable future for people everywhere.
What we do
Educate Young People
Our nationwide Population Education (PopEd) program informs young people—the next generation of parents, consumers, advocates, and voters— about critical population issues. PopEd staff and our network of volunteers conduct hundreds of workshops each year, training thousands of educators to use our innovative, fact-based curricular materials in their K-12 classrooms. The teachers we train reach millions of North American students annually.
Advocate for Family Planning
Population Connection works with our sister organization, Population Connection Action Fund, to mobilize activists to urge their legislators to vote against policies that threaten reproductive health and to increase the U.S. investment in international family planning. We also support domestic coalition partner organizations in defending reproductive health and rights here in the U.S.
Support Global Partners
We make grants to small grassroots organizations that have a big impact on their local communities in the areas of reproductive and public health, education, and environmental conservation. These organizations, located in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, are an important on-the-ground extension of the work we do to improve the lives of the most vulnerable among us and to protect the planet for future
Company History
Population Connection is the largest grassroots population organization in the United States! We have more than 40,000 members and hundreds of thousands more supporters and participating educators working together to build a more sustainable future for all of our planet’s inhabitants. Population Connection works to ensure that everyone around the world who wants to delay or end childbearing has access to the health services and contraceptive supplies they need in order to do so.
Fulfilling Population Connection’s mission requires smashing any and all barriers that prevent people from deciding if and when to have children. It’s never about “population control.” It’s always about empowering people — especially women and girls. We must address the unmet need for family planning of the 218 million women in the developing world who want to prevent pregnancy but aren’t using modern contraception.
How does improving the status of women affect population growth?
As girls and women gain access to education and employment, their health improves, their options expand, and they have smaller families than women who are denied access to education and employment.
The number of children a woman has is not determined by biology alone. Less tangible factors—health, religion, culture, and economic and social standing—are more influential. In many societies women are valued primarily for their role in reproduction, hold little or no political or economic power, and are provided with inadequate health care and education. Women in these societies tend to have higher fertility rates. But in areas where women have more autonomy, they generally have more power and resources to control their fertility, and birth rates go down. Elevating the status of women worldwide is vital to lowering fertility rates and, ultimately, ending global population growth.
The key to such empowerment is education, one of the strongest forces of lasting change. Educated women have increased opportunities and are more likely to enter the labor force before marriage, thus marrying later, delaying childbearing, and having fewer children overall. Additionally, educated women are usually more aware of and have better access to medical services, including family planning, and have greater confidence and ability to use them.
Benefits
Population Connection offers a generous benefits package, including 12 paid holidays, annual and sick leave, low cost health/dental coverage, paid parental leave, 6% 401k match, and transit subsidy.
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