Awarded Grants

Our project will utilize land to create a community garden to increase access to fresh vegetables to Indigenous families at no cost. The fresh produce harvested from the garden will leverage inventory for a community food pantry. Other produce can also be distributed or sold at the Sicangu Harvest Market.

The purpose of this project is to deliver 22 boxes of farm products and plant starts to Native Hawaiian families monthly. It will retain, utilize and leverage Project MAHIʻAI, which highlights Native farmers to purchase and collaborate with local farmers to create access & provide nutritient-dense food to Native Hawaiians.

The American Indian Center of Chicago will create the Food is Medicine program, which will increase access to Indigenous foods and cultivate improve knowledge of food sovereignty and Indigenous food practices for elders, families and youth in Chicago’s intertribal urban Native community.

SFIC’s free, bi-monthly, drive-thru Food Distributions continue to address food insecurity among Native Americans within Santa Fe County. We intend to utilize our food distributions to collect more data, and identify any other needs that SFIC can either assist with, or navigate clients through our network for more support services.

This grant increases our capacity to improve community health by building on traditional tribal food systems and offering gathering, preparing and preserving opportunities to tribal families who may not have those experiences. The funds leverage existing investments and budgets, engage extended families, moving us to sustainability and mutual self-help.

This project will utilize a hydroponic growing container to support food box program(s), increasing access to healthy foods by Tribal members. After having a proper site location and utilities, the container will help to increase the availability of vegetables through hydroponics in a region with a short growing season.

This program has been created to ensure the protection, conservation, and access of traditional cultural resources of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (CSKT). By utilizing traditional ecological knowledge and providing regular distributions, we are revamping the traditional food systems, tribal values, and cultures of the Flathead Reservation.

This project will increase the Tribe's ability to process and distribute meat within the community while creating opportunities for Tribal Members to receive training and education in a skilled trade.

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