Native Nonprofit Leadership Survey Winners
2026 Native Nonprofit Leadership Survey Winners
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This organization participated in the National Native Nonprofit Leadership Survey and was awarded as one of the raffle winners.
This organization participated in the National Native Nonprofit Leadership Survey and was awarded as one of the raffle winners.
The 7 Generation Survey will be conducted in 15 communities to expand the circle of people supporting tribe/community groups initiatives and participating in civic engagement. The survey is an organizing tool to strengthen the impact of tribes/groups’ ongoing organizing of community care and safety.
This project will restore healthy watershed function, reduce human–wildlife conflict, and strengthen ecological resilience across the Blackfeet Reservation. The project uses beavers as a natural tool for habitat restoration while balancing the need for landowners and elders.
This project will focus on growing program staff capacity, increasing community education, and developing construction plans on a buffalo program office. This project will advance tribal food sovereignty and grassland stewardship within the boundaries of the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation.
The “Awahsin: Restoring the Great Plains Indian Diet on a Piikani-Owned Community Site” engages Piikani youth in the learning and practice of cultivating, harvesting, and enjoying or selling traditional Piikani foods upon the recently acquired Piikani Lodge site on the Blackfeet Nation.
This Beaver Pond Levelers project will restore and conserve wetland and riparian habitats, strengthen biodiversity, and support sustainable beaver populations. The project promotes long-term coexistence between humans and beavers through non-lethal management practices.
This project supports a traditional meat harvesting and processing camp where Nez Perce families hunt on ancestral lands and learn hide tanning, meat cutting, and preservation. The camp strengthens food sovereignty by sharing traditional food knowledge across generations.
Our Project will strengthen tribal justice systems, advance tribal law and policy, support tribal courts and justice leaders, and develop solutions to emerging legal challenges. The project will build capacity, improve access to justice, and promote self-determination in Native communities.
MASE is a grassroots network of uranium impacted communities working to restore and protect the natural and cultural environment through engagement among communities and institutions by advocating for clean up of abandoned uranium mine sites, and halting new uranium development in our region.
This project advances Indigenous First Foods sovereignty by expanding culturally grounded Milk Medicine education, supporting Indigenous parents and caregivers, and strengthening intergenerational knowledge that sustains maternal, infant, and community health and protective factors.