First Nations Development Institute is pleased to announce the 2022 Request for Proposals (RFP) from Native-led nonprofits and organizations that are focused on providing youth opportunities that support the perpetuation of traditional knowledge, spirituality and the intergenerational transfer of knowledge systems.
Donor Name: First Nations Development Institute
State: All States
County: All Counties
U.S. Territories: American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/10/2022
Grant Size: $5,000 and $20,000
Grant Duration: 1 year
Details:
First Nations began investing in Native youth by launching the Native Youth and Culture Fund (NYCF) in 2002 to partner with tribes, Native nonprofit organizations and Native community groups working in rural and reservation-based communities and seeking ways to preserve, strengthen and/or renew Native cultures and traditions among youth.
First Nations believes that Native youth represent the future of Native communities, and that their health and well-being determine the future health and well-being of a community overall. By investing in youth and giving them a sense of place and tradition in the community, a community ensures that it will have bright and capable future leaders.
Specifically, they are seeking programs that focus on one or more of these four priority areas:
- Preserving, strengthening or renewing cultural and/or spiritual practices, beliefs and values.
- Engaging both youth and elders in activities that demonstrate methods for documenting traditional knowledge systems, practices and/or beliefs.
- Increasing youth leadership and their capacity to lead through integrated educational or mentoring programs.
- Increasing access to and sharing of cultural customs and beliefs through the use of appropriate technologies (traditional and/or modern), as a means of reviving or preserving tribal language, arts, history or other culturally relevant topics.
Funding Information
- First Nations expects to award approximately 15-18 grants of between $5,000 and $20,000 for one-year general operating funding.
- The grant period for this funding opportunity will commence December 15, 2022, and end December 31, 2023. Notifications of awards will be made on or before December 15, 2022.
Eligibility Criteria
All entities that apply must be located in the United States or U.S. Territories and must be Native-controlled nonprofit organizations or Native-controlled community organizations. First Nations considers “Native-controlled” to mean that the majority (more than 50%) of the organization’s Board of Directors is tribally affiliated.
Native community organizations may submit applications through a sponsoring organization if the sponsor has 501(c)(3) status, and can provide written authorization confirming its willingness to act as the fiscal sponsor.
Examples of eligible applicants include, but are not limited to:
- Federal- and State-Recognized Tribal Governments.
- Native-Controlled 501(c)(3) Nonprofits.
- Native-Controlled Community Organizations with fiscal sponsorship.
- Native § 7871 Organizations.
Grants under this project will not be made to public schools.
For more information, visit First Nations Development Institute.
