Awarded Grants

Our food security and nutritional support program is designed to create sustainable solutions for vulnerable communities. By developing and originating initiatives, we aim to increase access to nutritious food, retain food resources, utilize local capacity, control decision-making processes, and leverage partnerships to ensure long-term well-being and resilience.

This project will leverage the existing assets of the Tyonek Grown program to increase food production, healthy food access, and knowledge of gardening and traditional food harvesting by creating a Tyonek Garden Club. Community members will be provided with garden space, seeds and tools, educational support and knowledge-sharing.

This project will provide funding for the Wakanyeja Tokeyahci Lakota immersion school to source local and traditional ingredients to be used in daily meals at the school. It will develop healthy eating habits among the elementary age children and their families.

This project will increase the efficiency of our produce production through the purchase of advanced gardening equipment, while also creating a new poultry harvesting program to supplement our garden.

This project will help support the ongoing food distribution with fresh vegetables and fruit along with tribal food boxes every first Friday at our school serving the surrounding community, mainly the Navajo Nation. It will also help distribute tribal food boxes to our students through the school bus system.

The purpose of the project is to increase access to local food where many people struggle with food security. SNAI will acquire locally sourced and harvested food, and process, package, and distribute the food to households in need in the Salamatof service area.

This project will increase the availability of locally grown, nutritiously dense foods that can be accessed through community partnerships that cook and distribute the healthy foods to tribal members.

The Three Sisters Native Farmers Collaborative is intended to increase the access that Native American and Indigenous birthing families have to traditional foods, without the barriers. Leveraging our funding in this way supports the wellness of their growing babies, reinforces their relationship with the land, and addresses food insecurity.

Scotts Valley aims to create a food pantry to cultivate a valuable community asset, providing essential food resources to those in need while also building capacity to better address and alleviate food insecurity by providing a pantry inspired by healthy foods traditional to a Native diet.

This project will create 20,000 square feet of new gardening space that will be used to grow traditional and non-traditional foods organically which will greatly increase the availability of fresh vegetables in eastern agency on the Navajo Nation.