Awarded Grants

The ultimate purpose is to (1) utilize the Two Rivers art gallery to its full potential, providing a venue for local American Indian artists to exhibit their work and gain exposure; (2) to create opportunities for synergistic efforts by two or more agencies or organizations to work together through art; and (3) to leverage other assets and revenues to sustain the efforts of Two Rivers Gallery.

The ultimate purpose of the project is to create a strong foundation for our tribal artists to become self-sustaining in their business pursuits. They will become educated by attending entrepreneurship training opportunities and gaining financial literacy and strategic marketing abilities to promote their products. We will utilize those educated skills to assist them in developing business plans to ensure economic self-sufficiency.

The ultimate purpose of this project is to 1. Create and design the Empowerment Center of the Regenerative Community. 2. Increase innovation and entrepreneurship among local artists through creative placemaking. 3. Utilize local artists to design essential elements of the community while increasing their professional development and capacity to run their own businesses.

Gizhiigin's ultimate purpose is create a viable arts economy on the White Earth Reservations by utilizing our network of artists, consultants, other professionals and local service organizations to build the community's capacity, increasing access to arts and media for our youth, leveraging Gizhiigin's resources to establish a foothold in the arts market (market access for artists), and retaining control and advancing of our cultural interest.

The ultimate purpose of this NACBI project is to build organizational capacity to better manage the Woodland Indian Art Show and Market, as well as outreach activities, of the WIA Board and volunteers by adding a part-time director to the working team. This project will result in a more solid base of volunteers, stronger fiscal policies, more collaborations and partnerships, a sound communication plan, and additional funding resources.

Native Giving match

The ultimate purpose of RLLFI is to 1) create a local foods economy by leveraging existing land, human and traditional knowledge resources to encourage entrepreneurial producers to engage in commercial food production, 2) through mentor/mentor relationships better utilize existing agriculture assets and 3) create a long-range vision and strategic business plan to control food production and availability, thus further extending Tribal sovereignty and its inherent responsibilities to the people of Red Lake.

The purpose of our proposal is to increase the number of community members that pursue agriculture as an economic viable career. Our proposal will do this by creating a network of mentors that can demonstrate successful farms and sound business planning. This proposal will also leverage the existing FDLTCC Agricultural Extension programming to increase our outreach to youth to encourage interest in agriculture.

Native Giving match