Awarded Grants

This project will help increase the availability of traditional indigenous foods and vegetables through the re-establishment of historic trade routes to Chicago. We will leverage existing market channels to increase traditional foods and vegetable availability.

This project addresses food insecurity among Native families in need. Retaining our bi-monthly, free-food distributions in the upcoming months will provide extra support to them. It also utilizes our existing relationship with the Native community to increase our awareness and knowledge of needs that our community members are experiencing.

This project will address infrastructure needs for Oneida community members through the creation of a certified kitchen. Community members will have more access to indigenous foods and workshops to build their skills and confidence to process their own foods. Processed Oneida foods will then be shared with Chicago Region partners.

This project will increase opportunities for Navajo families in our communities to obtain healthy food including food grown locally by Native farmers. In addition it will create opportunities for youth in our community to be of service to elders by assisting in food bank deliveries.

Our goal is to create a business/design plan for a cannery processing facility. We will use these plans to be efficient and effective in operational plans and expectations with financials, demand, and community need, and adjust accordingly to ensure that we are supporting growth of our Nation’s food sovereignty efforts.

Project `AINA HEALS will create opportunities to increase the availability of traditional fruits and vegetables for 100 Hawaiian elders/seniors living on Hawaiian Homestead Lands in Kula, Maui. 90% of foods eaten in Hawaii is shipped in. Project `AINA HEALS will reverse that trend for the benefit of our elders.

This project will allow us to increase our ability to distribute fresh produce to the residents of the Yurok Indian Reservation (YIR) by allowing us to better utilize existing infrastructure and expand our capacity to accept fruit, vegetable, and potentially egg and diary donations from local producers.

The Peacekeeper Society (PKS) will increase food distribution services to economically disadvantaged and food insecure families and leverage the grant award with current funding to build our logistics capacity and distribution network on the Yakama reservation, Yakima County and for Pacific Northwest tribal communities.

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

This project will increase the Tribe's capacity to conduct value-added activities to food produced at the Bodwéwadmi Ktëgan by leveraging FCPC’s commercial kitchen equipment, thereby strengthening the Tribe's food system, as well as members' access to traditional, healthy, locally-produced food.