Urban Indian Health Institute is now accepting applications for its Decolonizing Data grant—an opportunity for your project or program to receive up to $50,000 in funding.
Donor Name: Urban Indian Health Institute
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/01/2022
Size of the Grant: up to $50,000
Details:
Decolonizing Data grant opportunity offers funding for cultural restoration, resurgence of data stewardship, and collaborative partnership building.
They’ll award grants to groups that are using culturally based methodologies to create opportunities for cultural restoration, data stewardship, and collaborative partnerships that put their core principles of Decolonizing Data into practice.
Through this initiative, they’re setting the groundwork for broad adoption of practices that embody the mission of data for Indigenous people, by Indigenous people—with tangible applications for non-Indigenous communities and government agencies as well.
Core Principles of Decolonizing Data
Funding will support the following core tenets of Decolonizing Data—as defined by UIHI—as they pertain to American Indians and Alaska Natives and other Indigenous peoples. These principles are not meant to be applied broadly across populations. Additionally, they recognize this list is not complete and welcome other Indigenous thought, practice, and knowledge as it grows:
- They have a legal right to data governance through treaty and trust responsibility.
- They restore cultural and spiritual practices that include the belief systems that are contrary to western religious practices and common belief systems.
- They are accountable to the next generations.
- They have a responsibility and accountability to sustain and build tribal strength and vitality through data.
- They create a collection of tribal affiliation and/or tribal enrollment as defined by each individual tribal nation.
Priority Areas
They encourage you to apply if your work involves one or more of the following priority areas:
- Legal right to data governance through treaty and trust responsibility.
- Restoration of cultural and spiritual practices, including belief systems that are contrary to western religious practices and common belief systems. This includes but is not limited to spiritual connections to land and animals that inform data practices, beliefs in ancestors guiding data, and other cultural practices that vary by tribe and region.
- Accountability to the next generations—including but not limited to the passing down of ancestral knowledge—support of individuals building knowledge and stories of service to their communities, and the advancement of Indigenous scientific knowledge.
- Responsibility and accountability to sustain and build forward tribal strength and vitality through data.
- Collection of tribal affiliation and/or tribal enrollment as defined by each individual tribal nation.
- Acknowledgement of harmful data practices coupled with healing, restoration, and reparations.
- Strengths-based data collection, analysis, and dissemination.
- Protective community and cultural factors measured and weighted against disparities and gaps.
- Community governance every step of the way (collection, analysis, dissemination).
- Appropriate collection of race and ethnicity.
- Embedded accountability of entities for collection of race and ethnicity.
- Disaggregation of data by race, ethnicity, and multiracial identities.
- Undoing education disparities and narratives that are embedded in institutions that inhibit POC in data science fields.
- Small populations methodologies.
- Acknowledging community knowledge and investing in data capacity as informed by the community.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for funding under this application, the organization must be one of the following:
- A not-for-profit urban or rural Native organization whose mission, leadership and board are representative of Native communities
- Tribal nation
- Tribal organization
- Local governments, if there is a demonstrated equitable partnership with local tribal communities, urban or rural.
For more information, visit UIHI.
