The Colorado Plateau Foundation is accepting grant proposals from Native-led organizations working in the Colorado Plateau region to protect water, preserve Native languages, protect sacred places and threatened landscapes, and food security through sustainable community-based agriculture.
Donor Name: Colorado Plateau Foundation
States: Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Arizona
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 09/02/2022
Grant Size: $1,000-$25,000
Details:
Priority Areas
- Protection of Water
- Recognizing the cultural importance of water for tribes across the Colorado Plateau, they support groups stewarding this life-giving resource.
- Protection of Sacred Places & Endangered Landscapes
- Their lands are part of us, inseparable from our cultures and communities. They support groups integrating tribal voices into landscape management and safeguarding sacred places.
- Preservation of Language
- They support language preservation because tribal languages – the vessels through which ancestral knowledge is passed to future generations – are threatened with extinction.
- Sustainable, Community-based Agriculture
- Native foods and traditional farming are essential to the Colorado Plateau’s tribes. They support organizations that are reclaiming sustainable, community-based agriculture.
Funding Information
CPF supports proposals in the range of $1,000-$25,000 to build local capacity and long-term sustainability of your organization addressing one of the above-mentioned priority areas.
Eligibility Criteria
CPF supports native majority-led Non-profit 501(c)(3) organizations, Tribal governments with IRS 7871 status, and organizations with a 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor within the tribal nations on the Colorado Plateau.
What they Do Not Fund
- Hosted fundraising events
- Individuals (organizations only)
- Non-Native majority led organizations
- Businesses
For more information, visit Colorado Plateau Foundation.
