Awarded Grants

This project will increase our organizational capacity to provide cultural and traditional knowledge opportunities during the age of COVID-19 in terms of technology- especially website and online apps, which will allow our organization to implement dynamic and engaging engagement options related to food sovereignty, environmental stewardship, and traditional knowledge transmission.

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Save California Salmon Water Protection and Education Project will enable us to continue to provide and expand our online educational and organizing webinars, provide direct support to those engaging in the webinars, and create curriculum around water protection, advocacy, science, and traditional ecological knowledge.

This funding will enable the BDC to purchase and install a 20x24 high tunnel structure as part of a larger garden project to develop and sustain a tribally-controlled food supply that will provide tribal members safe access to healthy, affordable organic produce without leaving the reservation.

This project will provide much-needed support to the newly founded Yurok Tribe Food Sovereignty Division to create new programs and leverage additional funding by allocating staff time for grant research and application preparation, as well as increase community and tribal member participation in determining program priorities through outreach.

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This project will increase the organizational capacity to provide supportive services for tribal elders that will allow them the much-needed support during the COVID 19 pandemic. This will increase our capacity to connect to our tribal elders through a multitude of platforms.