About

Our Mission
VISION:

NCAP strengthens the ability of abortion providers to attend to the needs of our communities.

MISSION:

NCAP builds alliances and support for the credibility of the unique perspective brought by abortion providers to the cultural conversation surrounding abortion. NCAP represents the voice of abortion providers and advocates for the supportive relationship between care providers and the women, men, families and communities they serve. NCAP carries the insight offered by this direct connection with the abortion experience to allied advocacy organizations, to legislators at both the Federal and State level, to the public, and to the media.

Our Leadership
NCAP Leadership Profiles ~ 2008

The NCAP Leadership is made up of an Executive Director and a Board of Directors who commits their time and energy, and shares their experience and wisdom, in order to guide our organization.

Diana Philip is currently serving as our Interim Executive Director. We will publicly announce when the permanent position will be posted. Philip is known to many of us as the outstanding founder and director of Jane’s Due Process in Texas, an legal advocacy organization assisting pregnant minors in the complexities of judicial bypass, Title IX discrimination claims, emanicpation and protective orders. Her career as an activist has been in non-profit management structures allowing her experience in 501(c) 4 and 501(c)3 organizations, skills she can utilize in leading NCAP and the Abortion Conversation Project throughout her tenure. Philip brings to us her knowledge in media relations, public speaking, marketing, fundraising, grant writing, strategic planning, crisis intervention, non-profit business consulting, membership relations, legislative advocacy and litigation strategies.

Diana Philip, Interim Executive Director

Philip has been working in public interest law and non-profit organizations for almost 20 years with issues involving gender violence, reproductive justice and civil liberties. She began her activist career while an undergraduate at Indiana University as a student lobbyist for Planned Parenthood of Southern Indiana and a research assistant at the Kinsey Institute.&nbsp. After college, she developed innovative crisis intervention and legal advocacy programs for domestic violence and rape crisis organizations in Indiana and Texas for several years. In the late 1990’s, Philip served as North Texas Regional Director for the American Civil Liberties Union. In 2001, She founded and launched the nationally recognized youth rights organization, Jane’s DUE PROCESS and served as executive director for its first four years. Philip just recently completed a successful 3-year pilot project for the Women’s Advocacy Project serving as a consultant to domestic violence programs to increase legal services for battered women and their children in rural counties across Texas. In addition to answering approximately 6,000 hotline calls from Texas pregnant minors seeking information on their rights to abortion while at Jane’s DUE PROCESS (and securing their medical and legal services where needed), Philip served as a patient advocate part-time for Whole Women’s Health in Austin for nearly 3 years. Not a stranger to us, she has served as an consultant and organizer for ACP, launching the first regional conversational event, the Texas Abortion Conversation in December 2005 and has been providing non-profit business consulting to NCAP since January 2007. Philip is a member of the Women’s Health Leadership Network for the Washington, D.C. think tank, the Center for American Progress, and serves on the advisory board for Lilith: A Fund for Reproductive Equity, a Texas-based abortion fund organization. She has presented at many professional conferences on the reproductive rights of minors including those sponsored by the National Abortion Federation, National Network of Abortion Funds, regional chapters of Medical Students for Choice, and state chapters of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, in addition to various law schools and medical schools. Philip has received awards in advocacy from the Dallas and San Antonio affiliates of Planned Parenthood as well as the first Reproductive Equity Award given by the Lilith Fund.

Our History:

The National Coalition of Abortion Providers was formed in July 1990 by a small group of independent abortion providers who sought to have their own political voice in Washington, DC. Over the next thirteen years, NCAP grew from a part time Capitol Hill lobbying effort to a national trade organization that aggressively represents the interests its membership. NCAP members include large and small facilities, physician and non-physician owned sites, and both profit and non-profit facilities. NCAP is a non-profit, 501 (c) 4 organization.

Join NCAP:

Independently owned clinics, either for profit or not for profit, are eligible for membership, as are organizational or individual allies. All memberships are approved by the Board of Directors. For more information, contact Diana Philip, Interim Executive Director at diana@ncap.com.