Native Fundraisers Community of Practice 2019
2019 Native Fundraisers Community of Practice 2019
Community Partners
Native Village of Barrow Inupiat Traditional Government
Native Village of Barrow Inupiat Traditional Government
Other
Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation of Montana
Support for One Book, One Tribe project
The project will utilize the newly created immersion curriculum to pilot educational best practices in the classroom, create a immersion teacher training strategy, increase access to high quality professional development, and leveraging staff and resources while transitioning from a program of SBC to a community serving school through SRCDC.
Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe
This project will increase awareness of the effects climate change has on shellfish aquaculture and create policy around shellfish aquaculture that will help tribal departments maintain and expand upon shellfish populations for sustenance and commercial endeavors. They wish to educate the community on the benefits traditional diets
Inter-Tribal
The project leverages youth-lead research and educational resources to create policy options to facilitate increased tribal community access to and control of traditional food places. The tribal communities will retain the traditional food ways by utilizing them and members will have better health outcomes through gathering and consuming traditional foods.
Karuk Tribe
We leverage experience gained from USDA Food Security (Karuk Food Policy adoption, Food System Assessment publication) and USDA Farm-to-School projects (Native Health Curriculum) for this proposal, whose ultimate purpose is to increase the health of Native peoples and strengthen tribal food sovereignty.
Native Giving Distribution
Spirit Lake Tribe, North Dakota
The intent of the Spirit Lake Food Distribution Program (SLFDP) Community Food Systems Project is to create a community-wide, multifaceted approach to leverage and fortify local food systems and to increase market opportunities by creating a community farmers market on the Spirit Lake Indian Reservation.