Awarded Grants

Initiate conversation and community engagement to explore issues, challenges, and solutions to addressing preservation of Bering Sea marine resources.

This pilot project will extend our Entrepreneurship Programming to Choctaw Youth for the first time and allow us to evaluate the effectiveness of our approach while giving Choctaw youth training and hands-on experience in entrepreneurship and digital fabrication skills.

River cane is a cultural keystone species for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, but is threatened by development, agriculture, and a lack of cultural awareness. This project will foster intergenerational knowledge growth for EBCI youth from EBCI Elders with an overarching objective of acquiring land for river cane conservation.

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

The purpose of the grant is to further the goals of helping the Saskinax̂ for their past, present, and future generations.

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

This project will enable Nakota Dakota Oyate Youth Council to increase their capacity to continue their Native youth entrepreneurship programming.

Lactation Teepee at Black Hills Powwow

This project will increase Native Hawaiian capacity to restore eroded lands and create real-time training opportunities to transform degraded environments into places of bounty that can support traditional food production and ancestral food technologies while mitigating the effects of the climate crisis.

This project will help create first foods availability by removing derelict fencing posing risk to struggling interstate mule deer and state-focus pronghorn herds. It will also increase sacred botanical resources by controlling trespass cattle grazing and leveraging the value of regenerative grazing with goats now and buffalo in the future.