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"Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children."
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| Hopa Mountain invests in rural and tribal citizen leaders who are working to improve education, ecological health, and economic development in their hometowns. |
Economic Development First Nations Development Institute Through a three-pronged strategy of Educating Grassroots Practitioners, Advocating Systemic Change, and Capitalizing Indian Communities, First Nations Development Institute is working to restore Native control and culturally-compatible stewardship of the assets they own - be they land, human potential, cultural heritage, or natural resources - and to establish new assets for ensuring the long-term vitality of Native communities. www.firstnations.org Native American Community Development Corporation NACDC’s mission is to effectively address issues that inhibit the flow of financial capital to tribal and Native American projects and businesses www.nacdc.org Oweesta Oweesta helps build strong Native institutions and programs through professional services designed to build local capacity and provide powerful tools for Native community development. Our primary programs and services are:
Rural Community Innovations Provides technical assistance to rural and tribal communities to develop private sector economies that help alleviate persistent poverty. www.rci-usa.org/index.htm Funding Ben & Jerry’s Foundation Although the Ben & Jerry's Foundation doesn't prioritize any particular issue area for funding, we do focus on the types of activities and strategies an organization uses for creating social change in any number of areas. The Foundation will only consider proposals from grassroots, constituent-led organizations that are organizing for systemic social change. We support programs and projects that are examples of creative problem-solving. www.benjerry.com/foundation/guidelines.html Charlotte Martin Foundation The Charlotte Martin Foundation is dedicated to enriching the lives of youth in the areas of athletics, culture, and education and also to preserving and protecting wildlife and habitat. The Foundation supports nonprofit organizations in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington. www.charlottemartin.org Coca-Cola/ National Recycling Coalition Recycling Bin Grant Program The Program supports local community recycling programs by providing bins to selected grant recipients for the collection of beverage container recyclables at community events or functions, public facilities, and programs or events conducted by applicants. Grants are provided to a limited number of applicants who can demonstrate how their proposals will lead to sustainable recycling opportunities. http://bingrant.org/home.htm Common Counsel Foundation There are several separate family foundations within Common Counsel – Each one provides different types of grants for different amounts. Visit their website for details. www.commoncounsel.org Dakota Indian Foundation The Dakota Indian Foundation provides grants to groups and organizations throughout the Sioux Nation to support a wide variety of activities directly related to the social enhancement and cultural preservation of the Dakota Sioux Indian People. Specific areas of interest include: Cultural Preservation- The Foundation provides program grants to assist events that strive to preserve, and educate the public about, Native American customs. Social Services- The Foundation provides program grants to provide counseling services to Native American people. Education-The Foundation provides scholarships to eligible Native American students to apply toward a post secondary education. The Foundation also provides various grants that support spiritual and educational youth programs and programs that help Native American people meet the goals of the Foundation. www.dakotaindianfoundation.org/index.php Dennis and Phyllis Washington Foundation The Dennis and Phyllis Washington Foundation is a philanthropic organization for the Washington Companies as well as the Washington family. The Foundation's mission is to better the human condition by supporting programs and services that give people the tools to enhance the quality of their lives and, ultimately, to benefit society as a whole. Geographically, the Foundation primarily serves the state of Montana as well as communities in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington where the Washington Companies are located. The Foundation places particular emphasis on organizations and programs that provide a direct service to economically and socially disadvantaged youth and their families, at-risk or troubled youth, and individuals with special needs. www.dpwfoundation.org Educational Foundation of America The Educational Foundation of America (EFA) makes grants to qualifying non-profit organizations that have tax-exempt status and those that are not private foundations as defined in the Internal Revenue Code. EFA provides grants for specific projects. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the environment, reproductive freedom, theatre, education, medicine, drug policy reform, democracy, peace & national security issues and human services. Important characteristics considered by EFA are an organization's record of achievement, intended broad impact, sound financial practices, increasing independence, and correspondence with EFA objectives. Please see website for submission guidelines. www.efaw.org Endangered Language Fund The Endangered Language Fund was founded with the goal of supporting endangered language preservation and documentation projects throughout the world. The Fund provides grants for language maintenance and linguistic field work. The work most likely to be funded is that which serves both the native community and the field of linguistics. Work which has immediate applicability to one group and more distant application to the other will also be considered. The language involved must be in danger of disappearing within a generation or two. Special consideration will be given to projects that involve children. Proposals can originate in any country. www.endangeredlanguagefund.org First Interstate Bancsystem Foundation The First Interstate BancSystem Foundation supports nonprofit organizations in Montana and Wyoming located in communities served by First Interstate. www.firstinterstatebank.com/foundation First People’s Fund The mission of First People's Fund is to honor and support the creative community-centered First People's artists and nurture the collective spirit that allows them to sustain their peoples. www.firstpeoplesfund.org First Nations Development Institute This foundation manages several ‘funds’ including: Eagle Staff Fund, Native Youth & Culture Fund, Little Eagle Staff Fund, Native American Hunger Program, Sustainable Forestry Fund and the Kookyangw Fund. Each fund has its own guidelines and some do not accept unsolicited applications. See their website for details. www.firstnations.org Honor the Earth Honor the Earth, in partnership with the Tides Foundation, awards grants solely to organizations that are led and managed by Native peoples. Priority is given to grassroots, community-based organizations and groups with a lack of access to federal and/or tribal funding resources. Honor the Earth does not grant to individuals. www.honorearth.com Kalliopeia Foundation The Foundation supports projects that contribute to a growing awareness of what unifies, rather than divides, all people. Through its grantmaking programs, the Foundation supports the work of people committed to holistic personal, community and planetary transformation, and healing based on the recognition that we are at the core one humanity, expressing itself through myriad ways and forms. The Foundation supports projects initiated or substantially managed from within Native communities that protect, strengthen, and encourage the flourishing of indigenous peoples, their culture, and worldview. This includes the revitalization and preservation of indigenous languages, as well as the protection of sacred traditions, ways of living, and sacred sites. Programming also includes work that bridges the teachings and wisdom of indigenous cultures with the challenges we are facing in our current planetary crisis. www.kalliopeia.org Lannan Foundation The Foundation supports special projects requiring multi-year commitments of funding and technical assistance in the areas of contemporary visual art, literature, indigenous communities, and issues of cultural freedom. The Foundation is particularly interested in projects that encourage freedom of inquiry, imagination, and expression. Funding for projects in indigenous communities supports the resolve of Native people to renew their communities through their own institutions and traditions. Funding priority is given to rural community projects that are consistent with traditional values in the areas of environmental protection and advocacy, legal rights, language revitalization, traditional culture, and education. Grant awards are made to organizations that are Native-led and benefit a significant portion of the community. www.lannan.org Lower Flathead Valley Community Foundation The Lower Flathead Valley Community Foundation is a charitable organization whose purpose is to bring tribal and non-tribal members together to work on projects preserving the cultural, natural, and human resources of the Lower Flathead Valley region in Montana, with special emphasis on serving the needs of children. www.lfvcf.info Montana Community Foundation The mission of the Montana Community Foundation is to cultivate philanthropy to build Montana’s future. The Foundation promotes the expansion of endowed philanthropy and works to build stronger communities. As Montana's only statewide community foundation, its activities with donors, charitable organizations, cities and towns play a vital role in both philanthropic and community development. The Foundation's discretionary granting is conducted regionally on an ongoing basis. Application requirements and grant cycles vary according to guidelines developed by the Foundation and its regional grantmaking committees. The focus of Foundation grant support is on projects that have a tangible impact on a community and will strengthen community capacity to address its future vitality. www.mtcf.org Northern Environmental Support Trust The mission of NEST is to raise operation money and endowment capital and to award grants to exception environmental and educational organizations in Minnesota, Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. Please see website for details. www.nestfdn.org Northwest Area Foundation
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