Awarded Grants

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.

This project will increase the existing food pantries ability to provide access to food for tribal members in need. The project will also allow us to collect data to clearly identify rates of food insecurity which will allow us to utilize the data as leverage for other funding opportunities.

The purpose is to support the tribal, urban, and peri-urban first nation communities in the Chicago region in reclaiming community control of food systems for their economic, social, and cultural benefit by increased capacity for harvesting, processing, storing and transporting finished wild rice to the Chicago American Indian Center.

This project will create a food pantry, re-purposing space within the Community Center. This will leverage existing Tribal assets to increase food availability, especially to the children and those impacted by flood and COVID-19.