Awarded Grants

Program Opportunity Statement (Recommended 300 words or less) Since its founding, our organization has operated out of rented storage facilities across the community. The organization has spent several years investigating its options for building a new Food Resource Center. This investigation led us to purchase six acres of land and complete initial designs for the future facility. With a recent electrical fire temporarily closing its current rented space, the need for a permanent home to sustainably support our expanding work and serve the community is greater than ever. We are undertaking a capital campaign to raise $8.5 million to build the facilities we need to deepen and sustain our work of improving food security, providing nutrition education, and reclaiming and building food sovereignty within the Blackfeet Nation.

This project will retain Native organizational capacity in our OceanBack, Retaining Land and Water Ties, and Cultural Values Mapping programs while concomitantly leveraging the existing staff capacity to implement programing in Southeast Alaska.

Covid-19 Response

General Operating Support

This program creates educational initiatives to teach the skills, knowledge, and practices of our kūpuna through interpretation, restoration, care, conservation, and protection of natural and cultural resources in Hāʻena, Kauaʻi. We are actively shaping current and future generations of conservationists, ʻāina stewards, cultural practitioners, and community advocates.

This project will help create a family friendly a safe atmosphere at Ghost Hawk Park where the outdoors and recreational activities can be enjoyed. Providing programming for youth to participate in recreational activities such as camping, swimming, playground, frisbee golf, and a hiking trail will benefit cultural and community health.

Our ultimate purpose is to have access to a boat to increase our community engagement through Hawaiian culture, fisheries management, marine education, and increased food access. We aim to utilize the boat as a platform to foster sustainable practices, preserve culture, and empower our community through knowledge and marine resources.

We will create cultural education for the next seven generations and provide multigenerational and all age groups of our community a chance to see the untouched environment of the ancestors. The land mass will be utilized and leveraged to show our life ways to the community members.