Awarded Grants

Through our new "Investing in Artist Success" workshop series, the IPCC seeks to strengthen our longtime relationships with Native artists by providing additional support beyond our Daily Artist Program. Participants will be empowered to professionally promote themselves and reach larger audiences by entering their work in exhibits and art markets.

The project will increase AICHO's knowledge of developing Social Enterprise Initiatives and will utilize training to build capacity within the staff to develop a business and marketing plan that will increase AICHO's and Native Artists assets.

This project will help ONAP staff utilize digital technology and social media more effectively in order to support artists, the arts, and raise awareness and participation in the arts. This project will also help us increase public awareness of Native American artists and programs.

The project will help WIA leverage knowledge and experience of other Native American galleries to attain a successful Woodland Indian art gallery that builds awareness and appreciation of Woodland Indian Art, and therefore sells the art of Native American adult and youth artists creating Woodland Indian art.

The project will increase the financial accounting and inventory knowledge and capacity of the Lakota Cultural Center's Supply Store and Gift Shop.

Conference sponsorship

To promote and design a food security project through farming, gardening, traditional gathering, and preservation activities utilizing the knowledge of community elders in three tribal communities within the Cherokee Nation.

The project will utilize existing staff and partnerships to organize families to create community gardens and increase access to traditional foods to expand the knowledge and practice of healthy eating and physical activity to reduce healthy disparities and food insecurities while retaining culture and traditions.

The overarching purpose of this project is to understand and implement the proposed food enterprise. NLFF is aiming to offer a regional operation to purchase from NLFF's farmers and others local/regional growers, provide necessary processing/storage and then market and distribute the produce throughout the community.

The kitchen project will help increase the knowledge of the different types of food preservation available, by utilizing NSF equipment to process locally grown produce. Also, to create an environment that supports residents in the Lodge Pole and other communities on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation.