Awarded Grants

The ultimate purpose is to increase traditional knowledge, improve the health of parents and their babies (i.e. mental, spiritual, physical, emotional), leverage current resources for birthing nursing parents and lactation professionals.

The Alaska Native Birthworkers Community is a community-based group of full spectrum Indigenous birth helpers and reproductive justice advocates organizing to reclaim Indigenous birth practices and to support Native families from preconception through postpartum with culturally-matched care.

The purpose of the Breastfeeding and First Foods project is to increase breastfeeding duration in Tribal Communities in Wisconsin through a variety of educational and support initiatives.

This project strengthens Native food sovereignty by restoring breastfeeding as a sacred First Food, expanding access to culturally grounded lactation support, supplies, and early nutrition education, empowering families to nourish infants through traditional, self-determined food systems from birth.

This project builds Kusilvak Rising's capacity to engage federal partners and pursue U.S. Forest Service funding that supports Native leadership; climate adaptation; and sustainable stewardship of land, water, and subsistence resources in the Kusilvak region.

This project will convert a hoop house into a year-round greenhouse for the Pueblo of Zia, incorporating a horizontal hydroponic system alongside soil production to grow culturally important crops like chile, corn, squash, and herbs, supporting local food production and community food sovereignty.

GPVSC will launch a Native Veteran traditional hunting and food-sharing program that reconnects Veterans to cultural foodways, organizes safe hunting on tribal lands, and distributes harvested game to low-income and elderly Veteran households across Rocky Boy, Blackfeet, and Fort Belknap.

Doulas with Dinners provides postpartum meals for Indigenous families in their first month after birth to support healing. These meals incorporate cultural ingredients and reconnection to ancestral foods. We aim to ease postpartum transition, ensuring they feel supported during this sacred time.

To support the inaugural Northwest Coast Textile Symposium, which will bring together weavers to share knowledge and preserve Northwest Coast textile traditions."

Ukwakhwa will pilot expanded production of Haudenosaunee heirloom corn and beans to strengthen seed sovereignty, teach scalable growing methods, and increase culturally relevant food access for tribal elders through the Tribal Elder Food Box program.