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2023 Bezos Professional Development
Funding Area
Description
NAFWS Annual Conference Travel Scholarship
NAFWS Annual Conference Travel Scholarship
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Organized Village of Kake
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Inter-Tribal
This project increases indigenous youth engagement in US Forest Service management practices while providing critical firewood and traditional building material to Hopi, UMU, and Dine communities. The project will leverage partner resources, reduce fuel loads of potential wildfires, create economic opportunity, and provide career pathways with historically tribally managed forests.
Inter-Tribal
AICL’s 2023 programming including the Breath of Life Online Symposium, the Language is Life Gathering, and the Master-Apprentice Language project
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians
This project will initiate and build upon ongoing conservation activities relative to watershed restoration and air quality monitoring for tribal lands. The tribe is leading an effort to remove a dam on our river. Additionally, we are expanding our air quality monitoring network to include cultural considerations.
Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico
These projects are to help insure the management and creation on Natural Resources development to have sustainable resources for generations to come. This will increase the knowledge and overview of the youth and community to be more involved with our Natural Resources.
Inter-Tribal
AVI’s programmatic activities seek to create subsistence agriculture through hands-on workshops while utilizing our new television studio and podcasts to deliver business and financial curricula. AVI focuses on increasing subsistence farming while addressing food security and economic opportunities while changing the paradigm of the high cost of transportation of food.
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