Awarded Grants

This project will increase local climate risk governance and capacity in Kake, Alaska, through creating a climate risk assessment and launching our hydroponics pilot initiative to climate proof access to healthy food.

This project will create and implement a climate/fire resiliency plan focused on identifying climate-related hazards, developing mitigation strategies, and implementing the plan through increased staff capacity. Our climate resiliency plan will leverage FEMA Resources for Climate Resilience as well as traditional Tribal practices to serve our Native community.

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

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

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

The ultimate purpose of our application is to increase access, participation, and utilization of Anishinaabe-led and centered supportive pregnancy care and birthing practices through the integration of Anishinaabe birth workers.

The main goal of the midwifery fund is to increase access to out-of-hospital birth services for Native families. We can do this by funding midwives and doulas serving Native families and covering associated costs for families (food, transportation, supplements, etc) and by referring families to existing community resources.

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

This project will create plans, demonstrations, and prototypes of community-centered climate resilient food systems on the Kul Wicasa Oyate Tribal Nation. It will leverage the knowledge and ambition of local youth to collaboratively lead the planning, design, and system development work, in partnership with local ecological knowledge bearers.

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