Awarded Grants

This project will enable our organization to retain our outdoor classroom which will continue to provide our children and community with methods to expand opportunities for intergenerational exchange of Keres in agricultural, historical, traditional, contemporary, and formal contexts to strengthen people’s use of Keres and stimulate community-level, cross-generational Keres fluency.

This project will support the transportation of cockles provided by the Alutiiq Pride Marine Institute and transplantation in the Kake shellfish garden.

General Operating Support

This project will help create a strategic funding plan for Cold Springs Rancheria through a planning workshop for Tribal leaders, staff, and consultants.

Grant funds will be used to hire a grant writer to complete and submit an application to the LSRP.

Our Indigenous food pantry program seeks to create a sustainable source of nourishment, retain traditional food practices, and increase community involvement to better utilize and control our resources, ensuring increased access to culturally significant foods while leveraging support for our community's well-being.

Our food security and nutritional support program is designed to create sustainable solutions for vulnerable communities. By developing and originating initiatives, we aim to increase access to nutritious food, retain food resources, utilize local capacity, control decision-making processes, and leverage partnerships to ensure long-term well-being and resilience.

This project will leverage the existing assets of the Tyonek Grown program to increase food production, healthy food access, and knowledge of gardening and traditional food harvesting by creating a Tyonek Garden Club. Community members will be provided with garden space, seeds and tools, educational support and knowledge-sharing.

This project will provide funding for the Wakanyeja Tokeyahci Lakota immersion school to source local and traditional ingredients to be used in daily meals at the school. It will develop healthy eating habits among the elementary age children and their families.