Awarded Grants

This project will create needed opportunities to build our community's capacity to mitigate climate related disasters such as erosion and drought, while also increasing the food producing potential of key subsistence resources that are currently in decline due to the climate crisis.

This project will complete the creation of our Climate Change and Sea Level Rise Adaptation and Resiliency Plan and our Molokai Community Energy Resiliency Adaptation Plan—which will lead to implementation, particularly with resources from the Justice 40 initiative.

This project will utilize BNGA advisors’ expertise to co-create a regional pilot project proposal focused on building climate resiliency and implementing BNGA’s goals, while increasing overall understanding of needs and opportunities available to Tribes through the Justice40 Initiative.

Our purpose of this project is to create an avenue for postpartum mothers and newborns to retain ancestral food sources and also leverage postpartum nutrition to better control the health outcomes and increase breastfeeding rates by utilizing traditional foods to help nourish our postpartum mothers and babies.

Our ultimate purpose is to create new ways to utilize and retain knowledge of Oceti Sakowin birthing practices by increasing the number of Lakota and Dakota women who will educate others on the sacred nature of birth and children and the importance of nutritious food and breastfeeding.

Create a nature-based coastal armoring resiliency implementation plan in the face of climate variability which is causing more flooding events at the project location than mapped or predicted. The project will protect the State of Alaska's only mariculture technical center and tribally-owned shellfish hatchery and provide resiliency.

This project will create a movement that will increase civic action to engage our community to plant the rain to retain water in our watersheds and utilize our communities’ talents to mitigate impacts of drought and climate change. Including leveraging our tribes’ Climate Adaptation Plan to reconnect to the land.

This project will increase our community garden's sizes and food source diversity thus promoting community independence in production of organic/ no-till grown food through a partnership of native knowledge, heirloom seed and appropriate modern tools, we are determined to produce nutritionally dense foods on Tribal land.

The ultimate purpose of the is to 1) create access to traditional foods and educational opportunities related to nutrition and use of traditional foods as part of the holistic Diné education of our participating families and 2) increase knowledge/use of Diné traditional foods/plants to improve their health and wellness.

This project will support the create of a mitigation plan for Hopi by increasing the knowledge of ten Hopi youth who will become stewards of addressing climate change by increasing their knowledge and begin to respond to minimize climate change. This plan will incorporate our Hopi values, philosophies and language.