Awarded Grants

Ultimately, we want to create a food processing facility to package foods grown by us, frozen or freeze dried and given/sold for our peoples to help with winter survival.

This projects purpose to increase the number of Wampanoag individuals who are KPC seed stewards; leverage tribal territory by introducing the KPC into the soils and communities of our sister Wampanoag Tribes; and to facilitate educational, agricultural and artist workshops to reinvigorate our ancestral relationship to Weeachumun (corn).

Conference sponsorship to support the North Coast Native Protectors, Tribal Marine Collaborative group's participation in the California Department of Water Resource's 2023 Californial Tribal Water Summit.

We will leverage existing infrastructure to increase our capacity to process food at family and wholesale scales. We will create a pool of community members with butchering skills, and allow community members to utilize the space and equipment for their own food processing needs at no cost.

Program Opportunity Statement (Recommended 300 words or less) We are seeking to fund the ‘Malki Museum Capacity Building Project’ that will take place during the grant period of April 2023 to April 2024. The term capacity is used to define the need for larger crowd accommodations, as well as the development of research and promotional information for our upcoming capital building project. With Covid-19 restrictions easing in our area we have been able to open our in-person events and have seen a spike in attendance to all of our events during the 2021 year. It was a welcomed development that we were not prepared for. Another upcoming development will be special invitations sent to tribal family engagement groups and elders groups in order to help boost our attendance and reach within the community. We are seeking funds to help support our in-person event seating accommodations by purchasing another set of bleachers to allow for more visitors to enjoy the programming taking place during the day. Malki Museum is also seeking funds to hire two consultants. Both will be assisting to create content and research that will be used in the creation for our new capital building project Malki Museum Library and Archive. One consultant will be tasked to do research into the specific building type and company we will use to purchase a pre-fabricated building that will house an office, research room, and hold all of Malki Museum’s collection of books, artifacts, and images. They will also be tasked with getting mock ups of the building and researching the additional costs associated with the building project so that we will have an overall budget number to use for fundraising purposes. The second consultant will be hired to create a promotional video that will show Malki’s supporters of our upcoming project and give information about how they can support the project.

Program Opportunity Statement (Recommended 300 words or less) Originally our program was located in a coffee shop (Painted Pony Coffee). They had art for sale from our local artists. Painted Pony is under the umbrella of Warm Springs Community Action Team (WSCAT). It is WSCAT who help establish us as a non-profit organization. In March, 2022, Tananawit opened in our own retail shop. That did not work out too well, the shop temporarily closed for business. The Board of Directors hired a new Executive Director, Debra Stacona in July, 2022. We reopened the shop in September with much success! We are located in a plaza of retail shops along highway 26 in Warm Springs, Oregon, next to the Indian Head Casino. Highway 26 is a direct connection between Western Oregon to Central and Eastern Oregon. Thousands of vehicles pass through daily. The opportunity that this grant will address is by giving us a chance to let the travelers know we are here, before they pass us up, by having visible signage for our art shop. We plan to install a sign above our shop windows in addition to signage close to the highway. We also want to promote our art shop in local arts magazines by buying ads.

The Texas Tribal Buffalo Project exists to establish Food Sovereignty and reconnect Texas Tribal people to the Buffalo. We are a community development organization using the Buffalo and Indigenous knowledge to create access to healthy food, resources, and cultural education opportunities.

This project is leveraging BFFSG's momentum and success with its community research analysis and pilot projects indicating the desire and need for BFFSG to become its own independent nonprofit. Funds will build capacity by contracting with founding board members to complete mission related development work.

This project creates opportunities for urban Native groups and communities in Portland to take part in growing and preserving first foods and plants. Wisdom of the Elders programs utilize Traditional Ecological Knowledge, donated lands and partnerships to train our interns in environmental and agricultural skills that work toward food sovereignty.

This project will enable Waimea Hawaiian Homesteaders' Association Inc. to increase their capacity to address and repair the weather damage to their greenhouse.