The Good Relatives Collaborative is seeking applications for its Bush Prize: Native Nations Program.
Donor Name: Good Relatives Collaborative
State: Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Awards and Prizes
Deadline: 04/30/2025
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Bush Prize: Native Nations is an annual honoring that celebrates Native-led organizations across the region who have a track record of successful community problem-solving. Bush Prize: Native Nations honorees support a culture of innovation, are highly-valued in community, and have a history of building creative, community-powered solutions for challenges in Native communities.
In 2025, three organizations from Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and the Native Nations that share that geography will be selected as Bush Prize: Native Nations honorees.
Funding Information
Honorees will receive an award of $250,000.
Criteria
- Transformational Impact – Bush Prize: Native Nations honors organizations which have created meaningful, long-lasting change to address the challenges and issues affecting their community. Transformational impact can happen through ideas of all sizes, within communities of all sizes, and through organizations of all sizes. Bush Prize: Native Nations finalists will have approaches and outcomes that:
- Challenge the status quo and address the root causes of significant community issues and systemic challenges.
- Create sustainable and equitable solutions for community, particularly for communities which have been historically underserved.
- Inspire others in the region and serve as a model for future success.
- History of Creative Solutions – Bush Prize: Native Nations honors organizations which have a history of using innovative approaches that offer real solutions for the challenges and issues affecting their community. Bush Prize: Native Nations finalists will be able to identify specific examples of processes, programs or projects that use creative approaches, technologies, collaborations, and methods to drive sustainable change and solve problems more effectively.
- Community-led Solutions – Bush Prize: Native Nations honors organizations which understand that communities are best positioned to articulate and effectively respond to today’s challenges. Bush Prize: Native Nations finalists will show a consistent commitment to listen, engage and involve the community to ensure the people they serve benefit from the organization’s impact.
- Culture of Creative Problem Solving – Bush Prize: Native Nations honors organizations that exemplify a culture of innovation and creative community problem solving. Bush Prize: Native Nations finalists will articulate how their organization’s values, policies, practices, people and partnerships allow them to innovate and utilize community assets and resources in creative ways to develop sustainable solutions to community issues
For more information, visit GRC.
