About
Male Contraceptive Initiative (MCI) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in Durham, NC and founded in 2014. Our focus is providing research and advocacy support for the development of new methods of non-hormonal, reversible male contraceptives in order to empower men and couples with the resources they need to meaningfully and equitably contribute to family planning goals.
Establishing a North Star
An organization’s vision, mission, and principles act as the North Star that guides all organizational activities, from strategy through to execution. Our North Star is developed intentionally, to show our motivations and principles, and the steps we take each day to put them to work.
Vision
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“Reproductive Autonomy for All”
The foundation for MCI’s vision is the hopeful reality we work to achieve: a world where everyone has the resources necessary for reproductive freedom.
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Mission
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“Our mission is to empower men, and couples, to fully contribute to family planning goals by providing them the resources they need for reproductive autonomy.”
The mission statement ultimately answers the “why” and “how” of the vision. MCI’s mission statement answers both the “why” (i.e., to empower men and couples to achieve the reproductive autonomy they currently lack) and the “how” (i.e., by providing resources that currently do not exist).
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Principles
Defining an organization’s guiding principles is critical to ensure continued alignment from vision to mission, through to activities. These principles are essentially benchmarks for an organization to evaluate activities and ensure they are as “vision-aligned” as possible.
MCI’s six core principles are:
MCI’s six core principles are:
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Activities
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Defining core principles allows for strategic objectives and daily activities to be aligned with the organization’s mission in order to achieve its vision. Mapping our activities to our core principles affords MCI a cohesive baseline for evaluating opportunities, addressing challenges, and moving forward in a more vision-aligned manner.
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The vision, mission, principles, and activities define our organizational ethos system and present a clear articulation of the “why” and “how” of Male Contraceptive Initiative. This has organically developed benchmarks with which to evaluate research and advocacy opportunities as this represents the ideal world we are working to realize, along with the mechanisms through which we will create the change we wish to see in the world.
Read this publication and blog post for more information.
Transparency
MCI is committed to transparency in all forms. We publish all research as open access, and encourage information sharing whenever possible. You can find our 990s and other publicly available tax information on our Guidestar profile, where we have achieved a Platinum Level Seal of Transparency.