Native Agriculture and Food Systems Investments

This grant will support the National Tribal Geographic Information Support Center (NTGISC) with their 16th Annual National Tribal GIS® Conference in Albuquerque, NM.

This grant will sponsor Kiowa Gourd Clans Annual Food Gathering

Waipiʻo Farm Restoration & Food Production Project restores historic loʻi kalo for long-term food production and community learning while honoring the land’s cultural legacy as a Wahi Pana.

This project restores traditional camas prairie on Sxemenech, strengthening Coast Salish food sovereignty through youth-led stewardship, intergenerational learning that reconnects community members with traditional foods and ancestral homelands.

This project will ask for people to consider the Buffalo first. There needs to be integrity and respect for the Buffalo, how they live all the way through to how they die, in order to provide quality meat for the people and allow for the people to have a cultural relationship with the Buffalo.

This project will control feral ungulates at the Food Resiliency Hub, protecting native crops and traditional farming. By training in sustainable management of this invasive species, we'll increase food security by safeguarding cultivated resources while creating an additional protein source.

Healthy Start empowers Indigenous families in urban Detroit by revitalizing first foods, supporting maternal wellness, and strengthening cultural ties—ensuring that Native parents can nourish, raise, and care for their children in ways that honor ancestral knowledge and uphold food sovereignty.

create space that centers the reclaiming, utilizing, controlling and transferring of culturally, spiritually relevant applicable skills knowledge and experiences to coming generations for reclaiming and maintaining, as well as leveraging, Womb Sovereignty and self determination and body autonomy.

The Mahiʻai Night Market strengthens Native Hawaiian food sovereignty by supporting local farmers, revitalizing cultural practices, & fostering ʻāina-based learning. It is a recurring asset that nurtures health, identity, & resilience through food distribution, cultural & ecological restoration.

This project will leverage Sacred Storm Meats & Treats and Sacred Storm Buffalo Plant to support development of a community-rooted, ceremony-driven food hub and distribution system strengthening Native food sovereignty through traditional meal giveaways and partnerships with Indigenous producers.

This project will increase food access by establishing a subsistence program that fosters cultural education & sustainable harvesting practices. It will support school meals, teach students traditional practices, & empower the community to sustain itself through intergenerational knowledge-sharing.

This project will address the immediate food needs of the Monacan community by increasing access to healthy, culturally relevant food. It will support the operational capacity of the MIN Food Bank as we work to promote Monacan food security and become an active contributor to our local food system.

FOAFS wish to sponsor Iakwathehtahserón:ni (we are reviving our garden) to implement a healthy foods program in our school. We strive to feed our students and staff a daily morning snack and healthy home cooked lunch that includes garden fresh vegetables as well as wild game.

Buffalo Youth Nation Project restores Indigenous food sovereignty by nourishing Native Youth, revitalizing bison lifeways, and leveraging cultural, ecological, and community assets to heal, empower and sustain Native Nations.

The Medicine Meal Program will build food security as a direct asset and a means to leverage others in supporting Native food sovereignty through distributing culturally relevant monthly kits, managing partnerships with Native producers, and maintaining access to nutrition, equipment, and education.

The Hō’a’ā i Kanalani Gather Food Sovereignty Project will increase cultivation and production of traditional Hawaiian food plants to achieve food sovereignty; and increase native forest with traditional food plants to create a biodiverse food forest.

Our program strengthens the survival of Ojibwe cultural skills. Our Seasonal Harvest Feasts revitalize Indigenous knowledge by gathering community members to practice traditional harvesting. As food must be gathered, so must the community to learn how these foods were used in meals and celebrations.

The Kupeke Fishpond project boosts food security by restoring Hawaiian aquaculture. It will remove invasives, raise native fish, and revive a coconut grove. Community and youth involvement throughout will reconnect people with ancestral food systems, promoting sustainability and resilience.

This project will increase access to fresh, culturally relevant foods by bringing intertribal pop-up pantries directly to Indigenous communities, leveraging cultural knowledge and community networks to address food insecurity, support health, and strengthen local food systems.

The project strengthens Native Hawaiian food security systems through restoring native agroecology, traditional taro cultivation & irrigation systems. It will preserve ecological and cultural assets of native food production, while building shared-use infrastructure to support community stewardship.

This project reinforces breastfeeding as a sacred first food and supports maternal-infant health by distributing breast pumps, supplies and culturally grounded lactation support to Native families, strengthening Native food security at the start of life.

This project will strengthen Pueblo food sovereignty by training youth in traditional agriculture and expanding access to native seeds. It leverages decades of seed stewardship and community trust to increase local food sovereignty, cultural knowledge, and climate resilience in Santa Clara Pueblo.

This project will prevent spoilage of frozen foods during power outages caused by extreme weather events, enable us to continue to care for livestock during power outages, increase energy efficiency, alleviate electricity costs, and replenish food processing supplies,

This project will provide increased traditional Cherokee foods to mothers and children, provide training on traditional gardening and cooking, and create and provide resources for program participants, as well as the larger Cherokee community regarding traditional Cherokee foodways.

This project will support WPHWs’ food sovereignty team to increase accessibility of traditional and nutritious food options, including protein, for Wabanaki communities. We will also supply meal kits called TraDishes (traditional dishes), that include ingredients and recipe cards to families.

The Bering Strait faces challenges to food security due to high costs, supply chain disruptions, and challenges to subsistence practices. Two Kawerak programs in food production, both farming and reindeer husbandry, will elevate local, Tribal agriculture in policymaking to help address these needs.

This project will support traditional food harvesters and procure supplies for the processing of traditional subsistence foods. This will leverage existing support and funding for creating a gathering space for ceremony, processing, cold storage, trade, knowledge sharing, and healing.

Kwiyagat Native Foods Program will expose 165 students at Kwiyagat Community Academy and Battle Rock Charter School to Native Foods by including samples in school lunches, hosting community events, Native Farm speakers and field trips, creating Native Food recipe book and enhancing school gardens.

The purpose of the Breastfeeding and First Food Program is to build community support for breastfeeding through educational initiatives to increase the duration rates of breastfeeding in Tribal Communities in Wisconsin.

The project revitalizes Navajo bodyfeeding traditions to improve health, decrease maternal and infant mortality, and strengthen cultural identity. We leverage ancestral knowledge, language, and ceremony as living assets to promote wellness and balance across generations.

We will contribute to community health and give economic opportunities by cultivating native foods and beekeeping, supporting farmers with supplemental income to grow food. We will create pathways for elders to share knowledge of recipes, medicine, cooking & food preservation for maternal health.

The project centers around Haudenosaunee food security, cultural revitalization, and intergenerational learning.

Provide free direct services to Native birthing families; grow a cohort of trained Indigenous birthworkers to serve Native birthing families; and support systemic change for improved maternal health outcomes and positive birthing experiences for Native birthing families.

This program strengthens Native food sovereignty by expanding land-based education, entrepreneurship, and access to capital. Through workshops and intergenerational learning, the project supports Native producers in growing, selling, sustaining culturally rooted agricultural practices.

This project will purchase and install biodigesters in Oglala Lakota Territory and in the Duwamish Longhouse and Cultural Center to produce organic fertilizers and methane for heating and cooking, which will enable Native Food Sovereignty programs to operate without relying on LNG.

This project will provide board training to help the board of directors govern and guide the organization. This project will help the Executive Director expand her expertise in best practices and standards in decision-making, management, and strategic visioning with both board and staff.

This project strengthens workforce capacity in Native communities by equipping food entrepreneurs with training, tools, and mentorship. It leverages the Entrepreneur Complex as a cultural and economic asset to grow sustainable businesses and expand employment in the Indigenous food sector.

This program restores ancestral abundance by developing a culturally grounded, technically skilled workforce of community members to steward Hawaiʻi’s natural resources. It protects Indigenous knowledge systems while building career pathways in restoration, food sovereignty, and climate resilience.

To create a Geospatial Data Sovereignty/ Governance resource kit to help inform tribal leadership and legal counsel of best practices for establishing data governance policies. The project also aids in coordinating activities to develop a national database for Missing and Murdered Indigenous People.

This project will help increase the teaching space and time for our food sovereignty program's food preparation and preservation workshops and growing workshops. This leverages our existing infrastructure in our campus cafeteria and greenhouse.

This project will support the Red Lake Nation in planning and developing an agrovoltaics initiative that uses solar arrays to grow fresh, culturally significant vegetables while advancing food sovereignty.

This project trains Apsáalooke youth and families to produce traditional crops while increasing fresh food options, using economic opportunity as a path to food security and cultural restoration. It incorporates partnerships to teach traditional and contemporary knowledge of indigenous food systems.

The Pit River Greenhouse aims to address food security issues with a sustainable food system based on community agriculture and food harvesting for its nearly 4,000 Tribal membership.

This project will create workforce pathways for Native students by training them in cultural preservation and digital archiving. It leverages the historical assets of the Petroglyph National Monument to build economic opportunities rooted in cultural heritage, land stewardship, and stewardship.

This project will improve the breastfeeding support and education among the American Indian/Indigenous communities of Minnesota.

First Nations will be hosting a series of four (4) virtual technical assistance sessions covering the Native Farm to School Program Planner. During the session the Consulting Program Partners will have support in developing their program plan. A completed Native Farm to School Program plan will be submitted to First Nations by the end of the project period

This project will increase the understanding of the impact of workforce and economic development efforts on the Crow Reservation and in other Native Communities. The information can be used to create or modify existing projects and to leverage for future funding.

Red Cloud Renewable is empowering native tribal members by providing instruction and training, at no cost, in the newest renewable energy solutions to encourage self-determination and tribal sovereignty. Through three focus areas: solar energy, weatherization and building energy sustainable dome homes, we foster safety and security within the family home.

With this program we can start to collect our harvested deer and elk hides at a larger scale from our processor. This will provide our organization the space and infrastructure needed to process hides for other organizations on the reservation. We will also offer hide tanning classes for our members.

This project will help inform a narrative of what the workforce development needs are with Navajo nonprofits and communities, and how these needs differ from US States.

This project will help increase NCIDC's capacity to participate in the First Nation Development Institute's research in workforce development and economic justice by helping to cover the organizational costs of participation. This will allow the First Nation Development Institute to utilize NCIDC's experience and knowledge of working with Indigenous communities.

This project supports a local food system among the Oglala Lakota by developing skills, knowledge, and infrastructure necessary for a local, connective food system. It empowers members to take leading roles in decolonizing the food system by leveraging education, resource sharing, cultural connections, and economic opportunities rooted in Indigenous ecology.

Blackfeet Community College is currently working on becoming a net zero campus. We have 5 buildings run by solar energy. The other project is a Meat Processing Plant and certification. The meat will be processed, wrapped and distributed to food banks and elders in the community.

This project will help enhance workforce development within tribal communities by equipping tribal members with essential job skills. It will utilize existing resources and programs, and empower communities to retain their tribal workforce. Leverage the workforce development project to attract funding and establish partnerships that increase educational and employment opportunities.

The purpose of the project is to implement a set of practical workforce development recommendations that retain the community's needs, values, and tribal priorities as well as strengthen families, workers, employers, and economic infrastructure.

The project will create 'āina-centered, community-led workforce development opportunities in East Maui that reclaim Native Hawaiian economies, perpetuate cultural practices, and safeguard place-based natural, cultural, and spiritual resources for future generations.

We would like to convert our main garden area into raised beds. These changes will make this space more accessible to our community members, especially, those in wheelchairs, walkers, and strollers. We also are installing a handicapped accessible bathroom near the events area.

This grant will provide funding for the annual sundance gathering.

This support will allow our organization to create a teaching curriculum and provide technical support to tribal members to address the issues of food deserts, food insecurity, lack of access to fresh produce, and the resulting rise in preventable disease disproportionately affecting the health and well-being of Native American communities.

General Operating Support

General Operating Support

General Operating Support

This project will enable Texas Tribal Buffalo Project to increase their capacity to support a Meat Manager to increase the accessibility of a traditional food source, the Buffalo, for Indigenous Lineal Descendants across Texas.

This project will enable our organization to retain our outdoor classroom which will continue to provide our children and community with methods to expand opportunities for intergenerational exchange of Keres in agricultural, historical, traditional, contemporary, and formal contexts to strengthen people’s use of Keres and stimulate community-level, cross-generational Keres fluency.

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 help to increase cultural connection, nutrition education, availability of indigenous foods, and experience preparing recipes using indigenous ingredients through monthly Indigenous Meal Kits delivered to participants receiving primary care, behavioral health care, nutrition education, or cultural services at Butte Native Wellness Center.

Our Indigenous food pantry program seeks to create a sustainable source of nourishment, retain traditional food practices, and increase community involvement to better utilize and control our resources, ensuring increased access to culturally significant foods while leveraging support for our community's well-being.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The project will utilize continued access to local foods through local procurement, increasing food soverignty of the tribe, and agricultural education efforts.It also leverages existing tribal assets to increase healthier food options for indigenous students, who live in a community with high rates of diabetes and other diet-related illnesses.

This project will increase UAII’s capacity to provide food to the urban Native population in Los Angeles and allow us to create a food-distribution program harkening back to our roots in 1974 Skid Row, where UAII started as a haven for the most vulnerable members of our community.

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.

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.

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.

This project will create additional opportunities for capacity building among the Agriculture Program staff to better serve the food needs of our community as well as increase the health, wellbeing, and quality of the Program’s two flocks of laying hens for the egg program.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This project will enable Waimea Hawaiian Homesteaders' Association Inc. to increase their capacity to continue providing cultural programming around fiber and food projects.

This project supports Crushing Colonialism’s Indigenous-led programs by sending two representatives to SOCAP Global, San Francisco, October 23-25, 2023 (https://socapglobal.com/events/socap23/). We will be developing partnerships with potential funders to increase organizational sustainability for our programs: #HireIndigenous, Decolonized Beatz, Frontline Journalism & Publishing, Talking Circles, and Multimedia Advocacy.

Lactation Teepee at Black Hills Powwow

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 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.

General Operating Support for Maui Wildfire Relief

General Operating Support for Maui Wildfire Relief

General Operating Support for Maui Wildfire Relief

Northern Plains Food Summit Support

This grant will help our food pantry stay in operation and serve our clients.

This project will enable Generations - Indigenous Ways to increase their capacity to hold their Yound Women's Camp.

This project will help create partnerships that will leverage assets and resources, while creating sustainable community connections. It will increase access to healthy foods and traditional foods. It will increase efficiency in market operations, management, and services. It will build staff capacity, and marketing and outreach efforts.

The Purpose of this Project is to create a market for traditional foods and teas in our local, on-Reservation community, to provide education surrounding ethical harvesting of our local native plants that are used as traditional foods and teas by creating a ritual of reciprocity.

General Operating Support

This project will help increase the availability and accessibility of organic fruits and vegetables for community members struggling with food insecurity through direct distribution while leveraging support from local restaurants to subsidize our Community Giving.

The purpose is to create a Native Hawaiian program integrating cultural food, family gardens, and activities in a sustainable future for well-being. To empower people to reclaim their heritage, leading to physical, spiritual healing, self-care, and intergenerational connections. Maintaining their access to traditional foods, storytelling, music, arts, and outdoor activities.

Our purpose is to create space that centers the reclaiming, utilizing, controlling and transferring of culturally, spiritually relevant applicable skills knowledge and experiences to coming generations for reclaiming and maintaining, as well as leveraging, Womb Sovereignty for our people , which we believe seeds liberation for coming generations.

The North Coast Native Protectors Tribal Marine Collaborative was founded with the purpose of developing collaborative relationships between Indigenous Nations through effective communication to implement environmental programs to protect the ocean resources. Collaboration would greatly increase participation in designing pollution prevention programs that starts inland, and reaches to the ocean.

This land Acquistion project will create an opportunity for the tribal community to develop, create and sustain, environmentally safe and sound practices in protection, preserving and being good stewards of the land. The Tribe will use proven scientific and tribal information to provide added value to this project.

This project will work to increase acreage of healthy soils in our operations. In our management of our livestock and white corn, this will increase bioavailable nutrients for our crops and animals, resulting in higher nutritional value in our hay, pasture, beef herd, and white corn.

Create opportunities for our community members to connect with traditional foods that can be found all around us. We will shift the thinking in our community from food desert to food oasis.

This project will utilize citizen science to protect berries within the Copper River Basin, add value to a culturally and nutritionally significant food source, and will increase the availability of this subsistence resource to community members.

This project will create an engagement opportunity for our community, particularly the youth, to learn about and engage in respectable local harvesting practices. This new stepping stone will leverage Hopi Relief's ability to grow our local sustainable food efforts for the Hopi people.

Increase food sovereignty and access to nutritious foods by opening a Tribal Food Pantry. Operating a Tribal Food Pantry pantry will decrease dependence on off-reservation pantries and provide consistent food access to at-risk members of the community.

This project will increase food security for Qutekcak Native Tribe by creating Asisqat neq'rkat (Healthy Food) Complex. Tribal members may utilize the complex to process subsistence foods and share the longevity of Asisqat neq'rkat by leveraging intergenerational learning. Maintaining existing hydroponic system will increase and retain access to fresh foods.

This project will leverage elders' knowledge of medicinal plants in concert with lunar cycles, engaging four Pueblos in cultivating traditional medicine. Firsthand observations of the culturally significant "lunar standstill" at Chimney Rock Ancestral Pueblo site in Colorado will help retain knowledge of the Moon, as observed by our Pueblo ancestors.

This year-long reporting initiative will allow Civil Eats to identify and fund multiple Native journalists to focus on in-depth reporting on issues of Indigenous food sovereignty, food security, and Native food and cultural traditions across North America. We will increase the stories we are able to share via Civil Eats.

Our program is designed to provide a safe space for the community to come learn about traditional Haudenosaunee agricultural methods of planting, growing, harvesting, seed keeping, food preparation, food storage, tool making, and crafting.

This project will create a pilot ʻāina momona plan to cultivate and increase indigenous food access for the Native Hawaiian Community within the North Shore of Oahu. MLEF will also leverages feedback and lessons-learned from the pilot year to inform cultivating 10-acres of native food systems in the next 5-years.

This project will help create educational food gardens that are sustainable and beneficial to the land through the utilization of local resources. Community members will have the opportunity to learn the process of site preparation, planting, nurturing, harvesting, and preserving of traditional and non-traditional foods that relies on harvested rainwater.

This project will create access to nutrition and other disease prevention and health promotion services for our Elders and work to reduce hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition of our older adults. It will also promote socialization and the overall health and well-being of our Elders.

TOPS will promote emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual health of our Oyate through the preservation and documentation of the knowledge, harvesting, location and traditional teachings of sacred foods. TOPS will gather, grow, and plant our sacred foods to create healthy lifestyles for generations to come.

This project will create multiple opportunities for tribal members to learn how to garden, engage in traditional food harvesting, and how to preserve foods. We will utilize traditional knowledge keepers and master gardeners to share information about food systems, restoring our relationships with foods, and increasing tribal members' food sovereignty.

This project will enable Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians to create 10 raised garden beds, setup their greenhouse, create an intergenerational Elder and youth Indigenous food sovereignty program and increase their capacity to share the produce grown by their Elders and youth with their community weekly at "Lunch with Elders".

The Texas Tribal Buffalo Project exists to establish Food Sovereignty and reconnect Texas Tribal people to the Buffalo. We are a community development organization using the Buffalo and Indigenous knowledge to create access to healthy food, resources, and cultural education opportunities.

Ultimately, we want to create a food processing facility to package foods grown by us, frozen or freeze dried and given/sold for our peoples to help with winter survival.

This Project will create economic connections between Tribal food producers (fishermen, farmers, ranchers) and Tribal institutions by generating information on product needs and Tribal production capacity. It will also leverage existing storage and transportation capacity of Ziibimijwang Inc to link producers to Tribal institutional consumers.

This project responds to the critical food shortages by further developing the capacity for elders and community members to grow food. It utilizes a combination of demonstration and on-site assistance to successfully develop new gardens. Impact data will include food grown and changes in participant attitudes toward fresh foods.

This projects purpose to increase the number of Wampanoag individuals who are KPC seed stewards; leverage tribal territory by introducing the KPC into the soils and communities of our sister Wampanoag Tribes; and to facilitate educational, agricultural and artist workshops to reinvigorate our ancestral relationship to Weeachumun (corn).

Building off of previous First Nations awards, we plan to increase value of tribal caught salmon by utilizing technical, economic, and relevant social media leverage for tribal product branding to control shifting post-covid, retail-direct to-the-consumer markets.

This funding will assist in our foundational development. We have created two annual programs that we provided to the Flathead Reservation tribal community. This assistance would provide funding that would attribute to the increasing need to house our current programs.

We will leverage existing infrastructure to increase our capacity to process food at family and wholesale scales. We will create a pool of community members with butchering skills, and allow community members to utilize the space and equipment for their own food processing needs at no cost.

This project will create a bond between youth and elders by participating in traditional practices. Through this the youth will retain and utilize knowledge held by the elders to promote health and wellness. This project will also Increase the amount of viable, cost efficient and traditional food and traditional practices.

This project creates opportunities for urban Native groups and communities in Portland to take part in growing and preserving first foods and plants. Wisdom of the Elders programs utilize Traditional Ecological Knowledge, donated lands and partnerships to train our interns in environmental and agricultural skills that work toward food sovereignty.

This project is leveraging BFFSG's momentum and success with its community research analysis and pilot projects indicating the desire and need for BFFSG to become its own independent nonprofit. Funds will build capacity by contracting with founding board members to complete mission related development work.

This project will enable Waimea Hawaiian Homesteaders' Association Inc. to increase their capacity to address and repair the weather damage to their greenhouse.

This project will enable Waimea Hawaiian Homesteaders' Association Inc. to increase their capacity to develop infrastructure in the Waimea Nui Region.

The ultimate purpose is to increase traditional knowledge, improve the health of parents and their babies (i.e. mental, spiritual, physical, emotional), leverage current resources for birthing nursing parents.

This project will empower Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council Inc. to deliver 2 educational sessions on traditional first foods for breastfeeding, distribute 35 food boxes with recipes to lactating families, host 2 events for Indigenous Milk Medicine Week, and support Indigenous Lactation Counselors in organizing 3 educational events in their communities.

Our program purpose is to leverage organizational strengths in program management, youth mentorship, and natural resource management programming to increase food sovereignty, capacity, and avenues for gathering foods that are indigenous to our Tribal Community.

This project will revitalize cultural stewardship, traditional uses, and ancestral crafts associated with tule reeds growing along the tribe's shoreline. We will actively engage tribal members in increasing tule populations and re-familiarizing ourselves with how to speak about, utilize, and weave tule into regalia, baskets, toys, and many other crafts.

General Operating

First Nations hereby contracts with Consultant, Major Market, Inc. to increase jobs and producers' profits, to increase food budget dollars & the amount of locally-produced food within the community, and to shorten the food supply chain. The project will provide technical and financial assistance to MMI to help the store address supply chain issues, inflation, and long-term sustainability with the purchase of local, regional, and Indigenous food inventory; for contracting and installing a solar energy system; for technical assistance for MM! 's butchering staff; and for personnel and administrative costs associated with project management.

General operating support and to support your food sovereignty efforts

This year-long, part-time contracted position would create a reporting position for a Native journalist to focus on in-depth reporting on issues of Indigenous food sovereignty, food security, and Native food and cultural traditions across North America. We will increase the stories we are able to share via Civil Eats.

Strengthening Oneida Nation’s Protein Processing Capacity

This project will allow the Chippewa-Cree Tribe to provide global solutions by producing hemp single use products such as fork, spoons and knives. These sample products of will be made of Hemp pellets, making them environmentally friendly.