Awarded Grants

The primary goal of this professional development mini-grant is to enable The Keya Foundation to more efficiently and effectively calculate, track, and communicate nonprofit financial activity, thereby allowing Keya’s staff to spend more time on program work and less time on day-to-day financial management.

Attending the 2019 International Conference of Indigenous Archives, Libraries, and Museums will help foster strategies as to how our nonprofit organization can better serve and assist the Hibulb Cultural Center in meeting its mission through fundraising and other efforts.

Participation in the conference will increase the awareness of existing organizations in the industry, different funding opportunities, and innovative strategies, for overcoming specific obstacles. The information provided will be brought back to the board of directors, whom will then utilize the information provided to better build an internal strategic plan.

The purpose of this project is to create Indigenous Breastfeeding Counselors (IBC) in Indigenous communities across the state of North Dakota. The project will increase accessibility of breastfeeding education and support to Indigenous mothers and families, while maintaining best cultural practices best known by those respective community members/IBCs.

Participating in the conference will help increase our programs awarenesses of opportunities and best practices for arts and cultural revitalization and preservation. Our program will be able to utilize this knowledge to enhance our current programing and create new programing.

This conference will create opportunities for our two Community Programs Coordinators to network with other Native American organizations in the country. This will help us better utilize our artistic capital. It will give them an opportunity to learn how to increase our capacity of using art as commerce.

This project will utilize traditional Dakota arts to increase the participation of at least ten youth in the creation of their own dance regalia. We will leverage the skills of our adult staff members as teachers, promoting our intergenerational model of learning to retain Dakota arts knowledge in our community.

Sponorship for ONAC 2019 Conference

Sponsorship for hosting Northwest Area Donor Tour

This project will create opportunities for Lakota children to develop a relationship with creation and experience the healing gifts of the Sunkawakan Oyate (Horse Nation) through participation in four camps and activities. Teen Horse Handlers will learn to utilize and restore the role of the Sunkawakan Oyate within the school/community/Nation.