Grantee Profile

Northwest Indian College

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11 Grants
$330,865 Total Awarded
2009 - 2024 Years

Awarded Grants

2024

Art Knowledge of Our Historical, Cultural, and Traditional Ways

2024 Art Knowledge of Our Historical, Cultural, and Traditional Ways

$50,000
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Community Partners

Lummi Tribe of the Lummi Reservation

Funding Area

Description

Our purpose is to create an art exchange between our Elders who retain critical cultural information and the next generation of artists to increase and the sustainability of Indigenous ancestorial art, its designs, and historical significance and protect its integrity.

2021

COVID-19 Response

2021 COVID-19 Response

$10,000
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Funding Area

Description

COVID-19 Response

2016

NWIC Financial Wellness for Families

2016 NWIC Financial Wellness for Families

$45,000
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Community Partners

Other

Funding Area

Description

The Ultimate purpose is to 1) Create a program that serves as a central location where students can access or be referred to resources/services available to them to help them take control of providing for their family, and 2) Increase number of students accessing resources/services and 3) help student gain skills/knowledge/attitude/values that encourage them to attain self-sufficiency and education and attainment.

2015

Growing our Own: Developing Youth and Elder Garden Curriculum for the 13 Moons Community Garden Program

2015 Growing our Own: Developing Youth and Elder Garden Curriculum for the 13 Moons Community Garden Program

$20,162
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Community Partners

Swinomish Indian Tribal Community

Description

The ultimate purpose is to i) increase community member engagement in garden activities, ii) create a venue for K-12 students and Elders to interact, learn and work together, iii) increase overall wellness, food awareness and traditional plant knowledge and iv) further utilize the existing garden space.

2014

NWIC Financial Wellness for Families

2014 NWIC Financial Wellness for Families

$45,000
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Community Partners

Other

Funding Area

Description

Our purpose is to streamline services that are available to students with children by 1) creating a program that serves as a central location where students can access or be referred to learn about resources and services available to help them take control of providing for their families, and 2) increase the number of students accessing resources and using them wisely to support their families while they're in school, and 3) ultimately through financial education & coaching, IDA's, VITA services parents will gain skills that encourage them to attain self-sufficiency and educational attainment.

2013

Northwest Indian College TCC-CDFI Collaboration Project

2013 Northwest Indian College TCC-CDFI Collaboration Project

$40,000
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Community Partners

Inter-Tribal

Funding Area

Program Asset Building

Description

The goal is to create opportunities for tribal college students, and tribal community members, to access training from the local tribal college, as well as customized follow up technical assistance, and a loan, if necessary from the Lummi CDFI to start up or expand a business. This will promote growth of the private sector businesses within the Lummi Nation and surrounding tribal communities.

2013

Muckleshoot Food Sovereignty Project

2013 Muckleshoot Food Sovereignty Project

$37,500
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Community Partners

Muckleshoot Indian Tribe

Description

Funds requested will support the Muckleshoot Food Sovereignty Project, which began in 2010 as a two-year USDA-funded project that is building a culturally appropriate system of health by revitalizing and increasing access to the traditional foods of the Muckleshoot people. The project's purposes are: 1) to increase the tribe's food security by developing gardens, providing food-related community and classroom educational opportunities, and creating a five-year food sovereignty plan; and 2) to utilize community kitchen policies to create healthier, traditionally-based meals for community residents, while increasing the kitchens' leverage with food suppliers through collaborative ordering.

2011

Northwest Indian College for the Kellogg Innovative Youth Financial and Entrepreneurial Education Models project.

2011 Northwest Indian College for the Kellogg Innovative Youth Financial and Entrepreneurial Education Models project.

$1,000
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2010

Preserving Cultural Knowledge through Multi-Generational Interviews

2010 Preserving Cultural Knowledge through Multi-Generational Interviews

$19,000
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2009

Northwest Indian College Cooperative Extension Youth Programs

2009 Northwest Indian College Cooperative Extension Youth Programs

$19,500
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