Awarded Grants

The purpose is to build Mattaponi Tribe capacity in grant writing, management, and strategic planning to develop forestry management plans based in traditional land stewardship processes and TEK, to enhance environmental health and climate adaptation for future tribe land endowment.

Establish a sustainable, tribally owned firewood program on under-managed fee and trust lands to improve local forest health, support Tribal members, and create new self-sustaining economic opportunities. Develop partnerships with the Forest Service, National Forest Foundation, and Wood for Life.

Our goal is to increase the capacity of our staff to be pursue partnerships, funding, and strategically plan for the benefit of our forested ancestral lands and for the Tribal nation through training on grant seeking, writing, and management.

This program supports nearly 4,000 Tribal members while building the Tribe’s organizational capacity to engage with federal partners, manage natural resources, and sustain long-term programming in environmental stewardship through a sustainable food systems.

Our program strengthens forest management and assesses participation in climate markets. This grant will increase capacity, support forest management and carbon project development which integrates our cultural values, while creating marketability through stewardship of our natural resources.

Our project will support the reintegration of tribal traditional uses to Santa Fe National Forest. The area of focus will be the 45,000 acre section of the national forest that was illegally taken from the Pueblo of Nambé in 1905.

Our purpose is to 1) expand the Tribe's capacity to implement prescribed fire, habitat restoration and other natural resource management on Tribal lands, 2) enhance participation in regional restoration efforts, 3) participate in habitat restoration decision-making with local partners