Awarded Grants

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

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

This project will increase the organizational capacity of the Food Sovereignty Initiative to create job opportunities through the creation of our composting program which will initially focus on training, certifications and composting site construction.

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

This project will increase the organizational capacity within our natural resources department and create job opportunities through the launch of our pilot environmental health program. Staff will create a recycling/solid waste program, implement education, training, and public awareness outreach events, and enhance regulatory compliance and disaster preparedness.