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 ultimate purpose is to 1) create a program in which the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe's Community members can participate to learn and use the concepts and methods in sustainable food production and seed saving using the First Nations' heirlooms, 2) significantly increase the number of Community members familiar with them. Further, this project will help us utilize and even leverage/expand an existing outreach efforts in learning about and retaining the wealth and diversity of Southwest Tribe's heirloom seeds, because the new project will provide training and a venue where Community Members can learn to buy/prepare healthy food, supported by our partners' technical assistance, while bolstering our ongoing fundraising capability.

The ultimate purpose is to 1) increase Board of Directors participation to leverage external funding sources; improve visibility and mission of the organization, understand roles/responsibility of board of directors, utilize board of directors skills in creating future projects relating to mission of organization, understand and retain fiduciary responsibility of BOD 2) provide Staff technical training in the following areas: financial/book keeping literacy, office management procedures, reporting guidelines, utilize staff managerial skills in planning for future and current projects, increase participation with current and future projects and 3) increase marketing potentials for Fiber Artisans working with value added products. Utilize and retain Fiber Artisans skills in creating value added products. Understanding the business of selling products to include: labeling products, customer service, inventory count of merchandise before and after a show sale, tax rates, creating business cards and learning about e-commerce sales.

The ultimate purpose is to 1) retain the production of produce, 2) utilize an existing three-acre garden area to expand its distribution of produce, and 3) increase our existing volunteer program, which will provide basic skills in collecting and distributing produce.