Awarded Grants

This project will increase the Tribe’s capacity to protect, enhance communication, and provide public awareness for the cultural program’s staff, tribal participants, and cultural center patrons as we continue to recover from COVID19. It will create outlets that will advocate for behavioral change utilizing culture and community post Covid19.

Our organization will create culturally based, COVID-19 education materials, utilize indigenous knowledge to teach about organic medicines, provide personal protective equipment (PPE) and train our vulnerable tribal elders how to use technology to increase their ability to share knowledge and teachings with the community, in a COVID-19 safe manner.

This project will continue to uplift tribal traditions, food sovereignty and gathering practices. It will also retain and increase access to culturally inclusive COVID-19 messaging developed to increase awareness and the safety of our community members and reservation residents.

The Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians will utilize this program to enhance safety COVID-19 barriers during traditional ceremonies and practices. These activities will be used as an opportunity to do outreach, education, and have a conversation about COVID-19 health and safety with the tribal community.

To strengthen our indigenous community by cultivating indigenous stewardship, cultural knowledge through traditional crafts and communicating to our tribal members on how to protect themselves from COVID-19 infections through developing culturally appropriate material to retain behavioral changes that reduce the spread of COVID-19 in tribal households.

This 4 Res Project will increase our organization's 4-Res Child Care Program's families through the provision of personal protective equipment (PPE). It will increase the effectiveness of health & safety protocols of the 4 Reservations.

The purpose of the project is to protect the tribal members and tribal first responders through the provision of personal protective equipment (PPE). Additional PPE and disinfecting supplies will increase protection from the spread of COVID.

The ultimate purpose of our project is to create continued awareness of appropriate Covid-19 precautions to lessen the spread of the virus to the tribal community at Morongo and the public now that the museum will be open once again.

This project will enable our organization to utilize funding to support COVID-19 recovery through creation of culturally relevant, tribal-community based public awareness, and safety programs.

The proposed project will enable the Tribe to set up a COVID-19 vaccine appointment help center for tribal members with limited computer knowledge, or no access to the internet. It will leverage an existing tribal library, resulting in an increase in vaccine access.