First Nations Development Institute is pleased to announce the Native Youth and Culture Fund to support tribes and Native American-led organizations that work with Native youth through programs that provide learning, leadership building, and intergenerational mentoring.
Donor Name: First Nations Development Institute
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/05/2024
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
First Nations believes that Native youth represent the future of Native communities and that investing in youth and giving them a sense of place and tradition in the community ensures a future of bright and capable leaders. They seek programs that meet youth where they are, support them in accomplishing their goals and dreams as future leaders, and shape pathways that prepare them for an empowered adulthood guided by their cultures and families.
Native Youth and Culture Fund Priorities
All proposals must demonstrate their project or program will carry out one or more of the following:
- Provide structured day or overnight camp activities. Camps are defined as structured day or overnight programs that focus on recreational, cultural, educational, youth leadership, and intergenerational mentoring activities.
- Focus on preserving, strengthening, or renewing cultural and/or spiritual practices, beliefs, and values of Native youth.
- Engage youth and elders in activities that demonstrate methods for documenting traditional knowledge systems, practices, and/or beliefs.
- Increase youth leadership and their capacity to lead through intergenerational educational or mentoring programs.
- Increase youth access to and sharing of cultural customs and beliefs and traditional Native art forms using appropriate technologies (traditional and/or modern), as a means of reviving or preserving tribal language, arts, history, or other culturally relevant topics.
Funding Information
Grants ranging from $20,000 to $60,000.
Grant Period
The grant period for this funding opportunity will commence in July 2024, and end in July 2026.
Use of Grant Funds
Funds may be used for programmatic, administrative, and organizational capacity building activities that support Native youth programs. Matching funds are not required under this grant.
Eligibility Criteria
Tribes, Native-controlled nonprofits, and Native-controlled community organizations using a fiscal sponsor, located in the United States or U.S. territories are eligible to apply. First Nations considers “Native-controlled” to mean that the majority (51% or more) of the organization’s Board of Directors is tribally affiliated.
Types of eligible applicants include, but are not limited to:
- Federal- and State-Recognized Tribal Governments and Departments
- Native-controlled 501(c)(3) nonprofits
- Native-controlled community organizations with fiscal sponsorship
- Native §7871 Organizations
For more information, visit First Nations Development Institute.
