Awarded Grants

This project will help create first foods availability by removing derelict fencing posing risk to struggling interstate mule deer and state-focus pronghorn herds. It will also increase sacred botanical resources by controlling trespass cattle grazing and leveraging the value of regenerative grazing with goats now and buffalo in the future.

This project will retain our existing food distribution programs via weekly meals and food pantry access to four locations on campus. Utilization of these funds will allow our pantry to grow in offerings, supporting our existing needs and increasing future demands.

This project will increase Native Hawaiian capacity to restore eroded lands and create real-time training opportunities to transform degraded environments into places of bounty that can support traditional food production and ancestral food technologies while mitigating the effects of the climate crisis.

This project will leverage existing opportunities to create meaningful conversations between Tribes and government, nonprofit, and industry stakeholders to increase the participation of tribal leaders in discussions around climate resilience and preparedness.

General Operating Support for Maui Wildfire Relief

Tribal Conservation Toolbox Support

This project will help to create food sovereignty through developing relationships with local farmers and ranchers. Leveraging the quality of fresh food available locally and to increasing the nutritional diversity to native families in the 6 counties we serve through the USDA LFPA grant program.

The project will increase the collective capacity of East Maui's Native Hawaiian communities to restore traditional ecological knowledge, centered on the pono (natural order) of our wahi kapu (sacred places) as defined in kumu kānāwai (natural laws revealed in traditional chants and stories)

Our projects will create new grasslands where croplands currently exist and retain existing habitat that could be destroyed. It will create connectivity between existing native grasslands and retain connectivity of unique habitat. This project will leverage funding from other partners and increase the key habitats that exists on the reservation.

This project will enable the Pomo Weavers Society to increase their capacity to continue to support the weavers from the Lake, Sonoma, and Mendocino counties that are learning, teaching, revitalizing and sharing basket culture.