Awarded Grants

Our program purpose is to leverage organizational strengths in program management, child care and development, and environmental programing to increase awareness, capacity, and support for breastfeeding and nutrition based on first foods in our community.

The project will increase secondary school students’ Tlingit language fluency through bolstering emergent language teacher’s knowledge through a master-apprentice model, utilizing innovative technology to create three seasonal curriculum units. Leveraging the skills and knowledge of Tlingit Elders, this program will help revitalize Tlingit language in Southeast Alaska.

The purpose of this program is to increase breastfeeding initiation and duration rates in tribal communities in Wisconsin. The well-documented benefits of breastfeeding, for both mother and baby, will improve health in tribal communities for future generations. This program strives to strengthen community support and education through training and outreach.

This project leverages food security data from a 2019 community health assessment to increase access to nutritionally dense food options for children, by retaining the Radicle Food Distribution. It also increases control over local food economies by investing in local food producers and soil.

This project will train 13 new adult speakers of n̓səl̓xčin̓ (Colville Salish) who have strong existing relationships with the children and families served by Salish School of Spokane. These new speakers will be mentors, advocates and role-models for inter-generational use and transmission of our critically endangered language, n̓səl̓xčin̓.

This project will continue the creation, retainment and enhancement of the natural resources for the benefit of the environment and people of Jemez Pueblo. The project will also allow tribal producers to become familiar with USDA programs that will enable them to grow and manage efficiently and effectively.

The ultimate purpose of the American Indian Family Center (AIFC) First food and Breastfeeding initiative is to increase awareness and access to 1) breastfeeding support 2) traditional and healthy food and 3) traditional teachings and the cultural significance of the breastfeeding journey, for American Indian families.