Awarded Grants

The Yurok First Foods Planning Project will utilize existing program partnerships to create the framework needed to implement a program that will increase traditional food access as first foods and allow for leveraging of funding for full program implementation.

This project will create a foundation for growth by allowing us the ability to increase our reach through the expansion of our internal resources focusing on the purchase of a vehicle. This will allow us to leverage key partnerships and help us control the current need due to the pandemic.

The project purpose will be to increase the scope of the existing Thunder Valley Montessori program to include a new cohort of students and caregivers, leverage existing resources in curriculum development and expand community awareness of the immersion program across the reservation.

This project will retain opportunities for Native Hawaiians to access fresh local foods and fresh local traditional foods through our island's 22 food pantries. It will leverage our Food Hub, Mobile Market, and Eggs to Market programs to provide access to food on an island with high food insecurity.

We will more effectively teach a greater number of students and alleviate personnel shortages by restructuring our existing team of teachers to empower them to focus on specific subjects while being united under a common curriculum under which they will develop lesson plans that unify the school’s learning.