Protect Life Michigan
Change hearts. Save lives.
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Abortion takes the lives of over 2,300 pre-born babies every day (https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/induced-abortion-united-states#). Over 46% of abortions are performed on college-aged women (18-24). On top of this, 66% of Christian students lose their faith and worldview in college. Young people today don't know why they believe what they do, so when flooded with pro-choice philosophy from professors, the abortion industry, and pop culture, they are easily molded. Additionally, there is no Michigan-based pro-life organization that works completely with students.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Campus Outreach
Our Campus Activist Model drives all outreach on campuses. Using free campus-wide displays, flyer campaigns, and table displays made by Protect Life Michigan, students can reach thousands of students at their schools.
Campus Mentors work with students to train them on effective dialogue, attend outreach events with campus clubs to help them create conversation, and debrief afterward.
Stump the Pro-lifer is an additional, large-scale event specifically targeting pro-choice students. It allows pro-choice students to engage with a pro-life apologist in a respectful, nonjudgmental environment.
Campus Programs
Within the Campus Activist Model, campus mentors work extensively with group leaders, mentoring them on goal setting, leadership, and other related topics for their leadership roles. There are additional opportunities for students to dive deeper into pro-life leadership with internships at Protect Life Michigan, designed with their needs and interests in mind.
To reach pregnant and parenting students, Project Rosie was designed as a website, campus tour, and online marketing campaign. Visit www.projectrosie.com to learn more.
The Student Activity Fund is a resource for students to apply for funding for groups to host speakers, create marketing materials, create scholarships for pregnant and parenting students, and more. $3,000 is awarded each semester to groups that apply for the grant.
Advocacy Trainings & Events
Each year, Protect Life Michigan holds several events to help recruit, equip, and network young advocates. Each January, Protect Life Michigan brings 165 college students to the National March for Life.
August holds the Life Advocate Intensive. This is a 4-day summer training that allows 30 select students to learn effective dialogue and practice it in the streets of Grand Rapids.
The Ignite & Equip Conference is held each October with over 200 students in attendance. This event gives students the opportunity to meet with and learn from the best pro-life leaders in the nation, network with each other, and advance in a variety of different pro-life apologetics.
Where we work
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of new advocates recruited
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Students, Activists, Young adults, Adolescents
Related Program
Campus Outreach
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
These results are in school years (ie: 2018 is the 2018-19 school year). This number does not include students that are already involved in PLM programs. NOTE: COVID impacted recruitment in 2020-21
Number of people trained
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
This number is measured by school year (ie: 2018-2019). NOTE: COVID negatively impacted this number in the 2020-2021 school year.
Number of pro-choice hearts changed
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adolescents, Young adults, Students
Related Program
Campus Outreach
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
A pro-choice heart change means that either (1) the student became completely pro-life or (2) the student became at least partially more pro-life. Note: In 2022, we ceased outreach to a campaign.
Number of people reached with the pro-life message
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Campus Outreach
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
This number is a school year statistic - reported in June of each year.
Number of Student/Young Professional Groups Served
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Students, Young adults, Adolescents, Activists
Related Program
Campus Outreach
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Protect Life MI serves High Schools, Colleges, and Young Professionals.
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Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
We have a goal to reach 100% of every college campus in Michigan. We will do so to create a generation of passionate and pro-life leaders who are committed to saving their generation from abortion.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
We use a filter to discern every activity we do on campus: will this activity reach people and does it change others' minds on the issue of abortion? Using this filter, we have created the Campus Activist Model, a group model that ensures campus groups have all the resources they need (funding for activities, outreach displays, meeting agendas, etc) already created so they can focus their efforts on reaching their peers with the pro-life message. We also engage them in statewide events to train and network them with national pro-life leaders and student leaders in other schools.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
We have 10 full-time staff dedicated to campus outreach and making our programs happen. Each of them have been trained extensively in pro-life apologetics, dialogue, and more.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Since 2005, we have grown from a group of volunteers to a team of 10 full-time activists in 2020. We now serve over 50 campuses, recruit over 1,200 new students to the pro-life movement annually, train more than 6,000 students, and more. Since our launch of our outreach-focused Campus Activist Model, we have now grown to reach over 64,000 students with the pro-life movement annually.
In the fall of 2020, we are launching 2 new programs to engage high school students and alumni. After rigorous design and a successful test launch in Grand Rapids, we are launching 20 new high school clubs and 5 regional Young Professionals for Life groups. Alumni who are eager to stay engaged will work with high school students to do community-based outreach, and then high schoolers will continue to do more school-based activism at their campuses.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
It is difficult to get the people we serve to respond to requests for feedback, It is difficult to identify actionable feedback
Financials
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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Protect Life Michigan
Board of directorsas of 01/23/2024
Christopher Gast
Lea Wojciechowski Ross
Erin Doyle
Mikhail Fedewa
Andrew Farnsworth
Katie Waskiewicz
Diane Menzo
Ernest Bedford
Jonathan Laning
Christina Marchetti
Monica Majcher
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? No