Awarded Grants

This project strengthens workforce capacity in Native communities by equipping food entrepreneurs with training, tools, and mentorship. It leverages the Entrepreneur Complex as a cultural and economic asset to grow sustainable businesses and expand employment in the Indigenous food sector.

This project will help increase the teaching space and time for our food sovereignty program's food preparation and preservation workshops and growing workshops. This leverages our existing infrastructure in our campus cafeteria and greenhouse.

This program restores ancestral abundance by developing a culturally grounded, technically skilled workforce of community members to steward Hawaiʻi’s natural resources. It protects Indigenous knowledge systems while building career pathways in restoration, food sovereignty, and climate resilience.

This project will support the Red Lake Nation in planning and developing an agrovoltaics initiative that uses solar arrays to grow fresh, culturally significant vegetables while advancing food sovereignty.

This project will create workforce pathways for Native students by training them in cultural preservation and digital archiving. It leverages the historical assets of the Petroglyph National Monument to build economic opportunities rooted in cultural heritage, land stewardship, and stewardship.

To create a Geospatial Data Sovereignty/ Governance resource kit to help inform tribal leadership and legal counsel of best practices for establishing data governance policies. The project also aids in coordinating activities to develop a national database for Missing and Murdered Indigenous People.

This project trains Apsáalooke youth and families to produce traditional crops while increasing fresh food options, using economic opportunity as a path to food security and cultural restoration. It incorporates partnerships to teach traditional and contemporary knowledge of indigenous food systems.

This project will provide board training to help the board of directors govern and guide the organization. This project will help the Executive Director expand her expertise in best practices and standards in decision-making, management, and strategic visioning with both board and staff.