Grantee Profile

Native American Advancement Foundation

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4 Grants
$120,500 Total Awarded
2020 - 2024 Years

Awarded Grants

2024

The Little Children Speak O’odham Early Childhood Education and Summer Adventure Program

2024 The Little Children Speak O’odham Early Childhood Education and Summer Adventure Program

$60,000
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Community Partners

Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona

Funding Area

Program Native Arts, Language, and Knowledge
Focus Area Language
Project Native Language Immersion Initiative

Description

Tohono O'odham is a 6b threatened language on the international "Expanded Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale", meaning it is losing users. The purpose of NAAF’s efforts are to increase the number of Native speakers under the age of 20 in the District in order to preserve the O’odham language.

2021

O’odham Nenok: O’odham Children Speak

2021 O’odham Nenok: O’odham Children Speak

$33,000
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Community Partners

Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona

Funding Area

Program Native Agriculture and Food Systems Investments

Description

This project creates healthy food access for GuVo District families with infants and preschool aged children, a group that is unable to access daily meals through the After School food programs for K-12th grade youth. The O’odham Nenok project connects healthy food with Tohono O'odham himdag (lifeways) education.

2020

I:mig, Language and Sacred Sites in The GuVo District of the Tohono O'odham Nation

2020 I:mig, Language and Sacred Sites in The GuVo District of the Tohono O'odham Nation

$17,500
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Community Partners

Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona

Funding Area

Program Native Youth and Culture Fund