Awarded Grants

This project will increase the capacity within our Environmental and Pilgrim Hot Springs Programs by creating a new Sustainability Coordinator position. This employee will work to expand green job development, clean energy initiatives, and plan energy education workshops to benefit the people of our region.

This program will prepare Tribal and Latinx youth for entry-level green and conservation jobs that are common to the Lower Colorado River and frequently filled by people from outside the community. To leverage this training all graduates of the program will have preferential hiring at CRIT’s natural resource departments.

The project proposes to understand the impact of the energy transition on the local economy and to build community capacity by training up our future leaders through the public sector leadership program who will then utilize knowledge to create an economy that is environmentally friendly and sustainable.

Land Management Plan for existing land projects and Legal Review for Tesoro Highlands land transfer project.

Blackfeet Community College Workforce Development will partner with renewable energy and tribal college professionals to develop a 2-week solar training program through the First Nations Renewable Energy grant. One partner, has provided a quote to provide two (2) hands-on trainings for 20 BCC students at the cost of $69,964.34.

The project will increase culturally-rooted revenue-generating opportunities and green job creation for native communities in Hawai'i by strengthening indigenous Hawaiian architecture, construction, and masonry as viable industries at the leading edge of green building and community resiliency.

NC is developing necessary infrastructure and capacity to empower Native people to enter the kelp mariculture space by expanding our Community Kelp Seed Nursery which has already created 20-25 jobs in Prince William Sound Alaska. As we scale, we will increase blue-green jobs twofold from this work.

Our new mobile solar training lab and upskilling workshops leverage our past successes and will expand and increase the marketable skills of our present and future students. The new lab will provide future training for many tribes while also serving as a central workstation at job sites.

This project will leverage existing funding in our Natural Resources department and increase the impact of our ongoing programs through expanding our clam garden pilot program to create jobs that support disaster preparedness, initially through education, training, monitoring, and strategic planning.

This program will create work opportunities for Native youth through teaching them how to grow, harvest, and distribute organic vegetables.