Awarded Grants

The Oneida Youth Food System Entrepreneur Program will address three key issues: 1) creating a system where youth educate other youth on healthy local food; 2) creating a sustainable youth business utilizing website development; 3) increasing the youths experience with technology and economics by providing them with incentives to participate in the program. Throughout this process, with adult supervision and a specialized curriculum, this project will teach business management and financial record keeping associated with the purchasing and processing, and profits from selling ag products.

Funds requested will support the Muckleshoot Food Sovereignty Project, which began in 2010 as a two-year USDA-funded project that is building a culturally appropriate system of health by revitalizing and increasing access to the traditional foods of the Muckleshoot people. The project's purposes are: 1) to increase the tribe's food security by developing gardens, providing food-related community and classroom educational opportunities, and creating a five-year food sovereignty plan; and 2) to utilize community kitchen policies to create healthier, traditionally-based meals for community residents, while increasing the kitchens' leverage with food suppliers through collaborative ordering.

we want to have our own tribal flock of poultry. we are trying to take one more step in our goal of food soverenty. the egg has been reffered to as the incredible edible egg. one single egg will provide 10% of the daily required protien. we all eat eggs but we have no idea where they come from or how old they are when we get them. we want to know that we are the producers. we control our own tribal flock, we know how old our eggs are because we raise them.

The renewed support for the "Farming for the Working Class" will further increase agriculture production in the homestead by training an additional 24 participants and creating another 12 new farms within the Waimea Hawaiian Homestead. Creating an additional 12 farms to build on the progress made with the 12 already trained, allowing the community to leverage their combined production to reach the economies of scale needed to access some of the larger local markets and begin to have a larger impact on food security in Hawaii.

The overall mission of the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa Community College Sustainable Agriculture Research Station is to create opportunities and challenges for students to learn and work with staff, community members and Elders in a sustainable agricultural setting to increase access to healthy, nutritious food; thus improving food security and overall health in a low-socioeconomic tribal community. Education and research activities in a multi-generational learning environment will encourage community members to take ownership over where their food comes from. Community members will have access to land and resources for research, experimentation, and implementation of sustainable agricultural practices and products.

The intent of the project is to increase the organizational capacity of the Hopi Education Endowment Fund (HEEF) by creating a process to engage all board members in a face-to-face dialog to develop a strategic plan and increase the capacity of all HEEF board members. Creating a new process will increase and retain the organizational knowledge and engage all board members in a way that is meaningful to the organization, the board member and the HEEF constituents. Ultimately the project will build the capacity to protect, manage and control the fund.

The ultimate purpose is to UTILIZE the fallow agricultural land within the pueblo and INCREASE the number of tribal members who participate in the agricultural sector and CREATE a Nambe Pueblo Community Farm brand. This phase of our project is focused on gaining access to more land on which we can grow food for the tribe and the bison herd. At the same time, we will also explore the possibilities of branding and promoting value-added products to the outside market to ensure this project can be a sustainable business enterprise for the tribe.