Awarded Grants

This project advances Urban Indian Food Sovereignty in two parts: first, demonstration growing, foodways workshops and community feasts share knowledge to inform the collective build out of long-term foodways access in a Native orchard/foodways walking trail on our TNAS-managed conservation acreage.

The Yurok Tribe Food Sovereignty Program will implement a culturally rooted initiative to support Yurok mothers, infants, and young children by increasing access to traditional first foods through the distribution of seasonal Traditional Food and Healthy Food boxes.

This project revives imu culture in the Waimānalo Hawaiian Homestead community, strengthening cultural identity, food self-sufficiency, and shared learning. Through traditional earth oven practice, we nurture connection, mālama ʻāina, and the passing of knowledge between generations.

Through our Tribal partnership with the Yankton Sioux Tribe and with community and Elder-led governance, we provide nutrient-dense traditional foods and intergenerational knowledge to ensure the health and self-determination of Native mothers and infants.

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 and lactation professionals.

The purpose of the Breastfeeding and First Foods project is to increase breastfeeding duration in Tribal Communities in Wisconsin through a variety of educational and support initiatives.

This grant sponsorship supports the University of Colorado and city of Boulder's 2nd annual CU Native American Golf Fundraiser.

This project will elevate tribal renewable energy projects through community education and in-person gatherings. This project will also support the People of the Sun gathering, an immersive experience centering Indigenous-led clean energy innovation, cultural expression, and economic opportunity.

The Pāpala Lele Biocultural Internship will cultivate Native Hawaiian youth, high school youth, and college students as the next generation of environmental stewards through place-based learning across the Hāʻena ahupuaʻa, integrating traditional knowledge with accredited academic pathways.

General support for cultural and youth activities in the Hoopa Valley Tribe’s ancestral lands.