First Nations Announces Organizations Invited to Submit NYCF Phase II Proposal

The NYCF Review Committee at First Nations Development Institute is pleased to announce that the following organizations were selected to submit a phase two proposal for the 2013 Native Youth and Culture Fund.  This year was especially competitive as we received 275 proposals.   

 Organizations Invited to Submit a Phase Two Proposal Are:

• Arctic Slope Community Foundation - Being Inupiat: A landscape of connections
• Boys & Girls Club of Darlington - BE Great Graduate
• Boys & Girls Club of the Northern Cheyenne Nation - Native Sprouts: Empowering the Next Generation
• Chickaloon Native Village - Ya Ne Dah Ah Be'endze' Na'dagii
• Citizen Potawatomi Community Development - SHONYA MBWAKA Project
• Cochiti Youth Experience - Cochiti Farmers Mentorship Program (CFMP)
• Crow Tribe of Montana - Judicial Branch - Enhance Healing to Wellness Equine Program
• Dakota Indian Foundation - Preserving Dakota Pathways
• ECHOES - Navajo Cultural Immersion Camp
• Euchee (Yuchi) Language Project, Inc. - Euchee Youth Move Forward
• Friends of Akwesasne Freedom School - 'In The Manner of The Old Ways Project'
• Grand Ronde Canoe Family - Fit to Paddle
• Hawkeye Indian Cultural Center, Inc. - Hawkeye's Sacred Footprints Project
• Heart of the Sioux Nation - Girls Talking Circle
• Home For Women And Children - Giving Roots and Wings to Families (a.k.a. 'Family Roots and Wings')
• Inchelium Language and Culture Association - Youth Language & Cultural Project
• Indian Walk-In Center - Urban Indian Center of Salt Lake Youth Balanced Living Project (YBLP)
• Iowa Tribe of Kansas & Nebraska - Iowa Tribe of Kansas & Nebraska Youth Group
• Lakota Immersion Childcare / Iyapi Glukinipi - Lakota Immersion Childcare / Iyapi Glukinipi
• Lummi Youth Wellness Center - Lummi Youth Wellness Center Traditional Healing Garden
• Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Tribal Council - Preserving Our Homelands
• Mending the Sacred Hoop - Growing A Leader
• Mending Wings - Dancing Our Prayers/Footprints of Our Elders
• Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin - Menominee Youth Culture Camp
• Minnesota Indian Women's Sexual Assault Coalition - Prevention With Native Youth Through Culture
• Miss Navajo Council Incorporated - Dine' Iina (Life) and Naatani (Leadership) Academy
• Native Village of Afognak - Dig Afognak
• Native Women's Society of the Great Plains - Empowering Through Lakota Isanti (Rite of Passage)
• Nez Perce Tribe - Nez Perce Tribe's Youth Cultural Enrichment Academy
• Nibwaakaawin - All Nations Skate Project
• Nipmuc Nation - Nipmuc Youth Retreat Series
• Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe - S'Klallam Places of Importance
• Pueblo of Pojoaque - The Art of Creating Ceremonial Attire
• Pueblo of San Felipe - Sons of Katishtya Initiative
• Rainbow Youth Golf Education Program - ATA Wi' Learning Center
• Red Cloud Indian School, Inc. - Mahpiya Luta Lakol Waunspe Wicakiyapi - Teaching Lakota to Red Cloud students
• Rocky Boy Health Board - Mi-Mo-Pi-Mas-Si-Win  (Cree for 'Living in a Good Way)
• Rosebud Sioux Tribe - Ki Lakota Pi (They Return to the Lakota Way)
• Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians - Bringing Back Our Traditional Ways
• Sequoyah Fund, Inc. - A-de-la: A Cherokee Timeline (Proposed Title)
• Standing Rock College - Strengthening a Lakota/Dakota Culture through Spiritual and Cultural Education
• Stronghold Society - Kimimila Gathering 'Age of the Daughters'
• The Notah Begay III Foundation Inc - Storytelling for Enhanced Pueblo Futures
• The Salish Institute - Youth Culture Camps
• The Zuni Youth Enrichment Project - Developing Youth, Mentorship, Empowerment, Self-Expression, Achievement (DY MESA)
• Tohatchi Area of Opportunity & Services, Inc. - lina ba Ha'zho - Growing Young Leaders: Tohatchi Area Youth Leadership Project
• Wiconi Wakan (Sacred Life) Project of Minneapolis - Wiconi Wakan (Sacred Life) Project of Minneapolis
• XKKF (Xaadas Kil_Kuyaas Foundation) - Re-Awaking Our Cultural Spirit Project

If your organization is not listed above, you were not selected.  Please do not call our offices to find out why.  Instead you may email mwhiting@firstnations.org and we will send a brief explanation (no reviewer comments) as to why you were not funded.  Please provide the legal name of your organization if you want a reply.  Please note that there is no appeal process as this is a privately funded program. 

If your organization is listed as one invited to submit a phase two proposal you will receive submission guidelines and information via email.  Phase two proposals will be due by Friday, April 26, 2013 and award notifications will be made by May 24, 2013.