BOLD is a global arts-based movement inspiring communities to create childbirth choices that work for mothers. We do this through:

Education

• Informing and empowering women about their birth options
  
  
• Providing a nurturing environment for new activists to learn strategies for social change
  
  
• Reaching out to diverse populations and meeting them where they are
  
  
• Using the arts to support new & creative ways of educating people about maternity care
  

Truth

• Encouraging the examination of evidence-based data
  
  
• Helping individuals and communities express their own personal truths about birth
  
  
• Using a multi-sensory, Arts-based approach to telling and hearing information & experiences about birth
  

Action

• Providing a vehicle for local community action
  
  
• Encouraging new activists in local communities
  
  
• Bringing conversations about birth to diverse forums
  
  
• Communities taking action to foster local change
  
  
• Communities taking their message to people and institutions that can affect change