Awarded Grants

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.

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.

This project will increase agricultural education, creating alternative food sources in five low-income Ho-Chunk villages. It will increase our year-round workshops and training on cultivating, harvesting and processing traditional foods. It leverages tribal resources to combat food insecurity and offers food sovereignty to promote self-sufficiency and cultural heritage pride.

This project will increase access to foods that fit a traditional Blackfeet diet. The project leverages FAST Blackfeet’s ability to educate community members on healthy and traditional eating through the Ō´yō´•ṗ´ (We Are Eating) Food Pantry and other programs. This contributes to long-term food insecurity prevention in the Blackfeet Nation.

This project will assist in increasing equitable access to healthy food while increasing food security to help leverage the reduction of health disparities through the use of innovative food distribution, family kits, food sovereignty education, and the creation of a community food pantry for famished youth and families of Zuni.

This project will utilize a mobile freezer unit to distribute buffalo meat, and essentially increase the availability of traditional food sources across Texas Indigenous communities.

Our Tribal Food Program will increase the number of Native Americans with access to healthy and traditional foods through our tribal food pantry. The project will also create new intergenerational learning opportunities for Native youth and families within our community kitchen, one of the few for Indigenous people in Texas.

This project will reduce Yankton Sioux food insecurity food sovereignty by leveraging existing services (food pantry, monthly drive-up food boxes, children’s backpack food, and food distribution). A newly-created element will increase food sovereignty through community classes teaching families how to establish/maintain a garden and how to preserve (can/dehydrate) foods.

Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe (PGST) will increase its food bank availability of fresh produce and low-sodium options for health deficiencies and dietary restrictions. This will be achieved by purchasing $9,590 worth of traditional fresh food, and 192 reusable freezer bags plus 3 storage totes totaling $410 to maximize produce shelf-life.