Awarded Grants

This project responds to the critical food shortages by further developing the capacity for elders and community members to grow food. It utilizes a combination of demonstration and on-site assistance to successfully develop new gardens. Impact data will include food grown and changes in participant attitudes toward fresh foods.

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

This project will help create educational food gardens that are sustainable and beneficial to the land through the utilization of local resources. Community members will have the opportunity to learn the process of site preparation, planting, nurturing, harvesting, and preserving of traditional and non-traditional foods that relies on harvested rainwater.

Program Opportunity Statement (Recommended 300 words or less) The PNW Canoe Journey takes place every year and some of our board members suggested we attend the festivities in July. By building a kayak, we will be able to not just attend, but participate. This grant will allow us to not only build a traditional watercraft, but bring our local Attuan’s together and learn a traditional skill.

This project will create access to nutrition and other disease prevention and health promotion services for our Elders and work to reduce hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition of our older adults. It will also promote socialization and the overall health and well-being of our Elders.

The project will increase the presence of language in the community, and number of Kalispel language speakers helping to revitalize and retain the Kalispel language, creating language connections in the community and within families where language may have been lost. The curriculum and learning path will be shared with tribes.

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

This project will enable Waimea Hawaiian Homesteaders' Association Inc. to increase their capacity to develop infrastructure in the Waimea Nui Region.