Awarded Grants

Project Purpose This project retains cultural knowledge and empowers youth with life skills and Yup'ik language classes that increase the sustainability of life in Igiugig Village. The ultimate goal of this project is to revitalize Lake Iliamna Yup’ik by growing new, young speakers, learning from elders, and creating language materials that capture unwritten history, cultural values, and traditional stories.

Project Purpose The project will create a year-round paddling program to increase the number of youth trained in traditional Hawaiian paddling practices and will utilize youth to provide peer mentorship.

This project will help inform a narrative of what the workforce development needs are with Navajo nonprofits and communities, and how these needs differ from US States.

This project will help increase NCIDC's capacity to participate in the First Nation Development Institute's research in workforce development and economic justice by helping to cover the organizational costs of participation. This will allow the First Nation Development Institute to utilize NCIDC's experience and knowledge of working with Indigenous communities.

Blackfeet Community College is currently working on becoming a net zero campus. We have 5 buildings run by solar energy. The other project is a Meat Processing Plant and certification. The meat will be processed, wrapped and distributed to food banks and elders in the community.

This project supports a local food system among the Oglala Lakota by developing skills, knowledge, and infrastructure necessary for a local, connective food system. It empowers members to take leading roles in decolonizing the food system by leveraging education, resource sharing, cultural connections, and economic opportunities rooted in Indigenous ecology.

This project will help enhance workforce development within tribal communities by equipping tribal members with essential job skills. It will utilize existing resources and programs, and empower communities to retain their tribal workforce. Leverage the workforce development project to attract funding and establish partnerships that increase educational and employment opportunities.

The purpose of the project is to implement a set of practical workforce development recommendations that retain the community's needs, values, and tribal priorities as well as strengthen families, workers, employers, and economic infrastructure.

Our purpose is to create an art exchange between our Elders who retain critical cultural information and the next generation of artists to increase and the sustainability of Indigenous ancestorial art, its designs, and historical significance and protect its integrity.