Awarded Grants

This project will increase tribal environmental asset control on or near Native lands.

This project will enable the Hoopa Valley Tribe to leverage efforts and resources to reclaim and restore 10,000 acres of Hoopa ancestral lands, which will lead to increased cultural, spiritual, and biological wellbeing.

The North Coast Native Protectors Tribal Marine Collaborative was founded with the purpose of developing collaborative relationships between Indigenous Nations through effective communication to implement environmental programs to protect the ocean resources. Collaboration would greatly increase participation in designing pollution prevention programs that starts inland, and reaches to the ocean.

This land Acquistion project will create an opportunity for the tribal community to develop, create and sustain, environmentally safe and sound practices in protection, preserving and being good stewards of the land. The Tribe will use proven scientific and tribal information to provide added value to this project.

General Operating Support

This project will work to increase acreage of healthy soils in our operations. In our management of our livestock and white corn, this will increase bioavailable nutrients for our crops and animals, resulting in higher nutritional value in our hay, pasture, beef herd, and white corn.

This project will enable Wukchumni Tribe to increase their capacity to support their Wukchumni Tribal Nursery.

This project will enable Tolowa Dee-ni' to increase their capacity to continue their Tolowa Dee-ni' Tribal Nursery work.

This year-long reporting initiative will allow Civil Eats to identify and fund multiple Native journalists to focus on in-depth reporting on issues of Indigenous food sovereignty, food security, and Native food and cultural traditions across North America. We will increase the stories we are able to share via Civil Eats.

Create opportunities for our community members to connect with traditional foods that can be found all around us. We will shift the thinking in our community from food desert to food oasis.