Awarded Grants

This project will increase the efficiency of our produce production through the purchase of advanced gardening equipment, while also creating a new poultry harvesting program to supplement our garden.

The purpose of the project is to increase access to local food where many people struggle with food security. SNAI will acquire locally sourced and harvested food, and process, package, and distribute the food to households in need in the Salamatof service area.

This project will help support the ongoing food distribution with fresh vegetables and fruit along with tribal food boxes every first Friday at our school serving the surrounding community, mainly the Navajo Nation. It will also help distribute tribal food boxes to our students through the school bus system.

This project will increase the availability of locally grown, nutritiously dense foods that can be accessed through community partnerships that cook and distribute the healthy foods to tribal members.

The Three Sisters Native Farmers Collaborative is intended to increase the access that Native American and Indigenous birthing families have to traditional foods, without the barriers. Leveraging our funding in this way supports the wellness of their growing babies, reinforces their relationship with the land, and addresses food insecurity.

This project will create 20,000 square feet of new gardening space that will be used to grow traditional and non-traditional foods organically which will greatly increase the availability of fresh vegetables in eastern agency on the Navajo Nation.

Scotts Valley aims to create a food pantry to cultivate a valuable community asset, providing essential food resources to those in need while also building capacity to better address and alleviate food insecurity by providing a pantry inspired by healthy foods traditional to a Native diet.

This project will increase agricultural education, creating alternative food sources in five low-income Ho-Chunk villages. It will increase our year-round workshops and training on cultivating, harvesting and processing traditional foods. It leverages tribal resources to combat food insecurity and offers food sovereignty to promote self-sufficiency and cultural heritage pride.

This project will assist in increasing equitable access to healthy food while increasing food security to help leverage the reduction of health disparities through the use of innovative food distribution, family kits, food sovereignty education, and the creation of a community food pantry for famished youth and families of Zuni.

This project will increase access to foods that fit a traditional Blackfeet diet. The project leverages FAST Blackfeet’s ability to educate community members on healthy and traditional eating through the Ō´yō´•ṗ´ (We Are Eating) Food Pantry and other programs. This contributes to long-term food insecurity prevention in the Blackfeet Nation.