The Northland Foundation is seeking applications for its Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Relatives Grants.
Donor Name: Northland Foundation
State: Minnesota
County: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/15/2023
Size of the Grant: Up to $2,500
Details:
Indigenous women and girls face an outsized risk of sexual assault, violence, and murder in Minnesota and nationally. Indigenous females represent 1% of the State’s population, but 15% of missing person cases and 9% of female homicides. The Northland Foundation will offer a special grant opportunity, through its Maada’ookiing grant program, supporting grassroots activities to raise awareness, urge change, and promote healing around Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relations. Four $2500 grants are available to support locally driven change, while highlighting the important, ongoing work in the community that centers protecting indigenous women, girls and relatives.
Focus Areas
Grants will support grassroots activities that align with and advance the recommendations set forth by the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Task Force report to the Minnesota Legislature:
- Systemic change – Addressing systemic causes of violence against Indigenous women, children, and relatives.
- Data collection and reporting – collection and reporting of data about violence and crime against Indigenous women, children, and relatives.
- Institutional change – Addressing institutional policies and practices that impact violence against Indigenous women, children, and relatives.
- Prevention of violence – Reduce and eliminate violence against Indigenous women, children, and relatives.
- Healing – Help victims, survivors, families, and communities heal from and prevent violence against Indigenous women, children, and relatives.
Funding Information
- Grant amount: Up to $2,500 per grant.
- Examples of what the grant will help pay for:
Eligibility Criteria
- Individuals or small groups who are citizens, descendants, or have kinship ties or affiliations to Indigenous communities for activities with the geographic service area. In recognition of Indigenous identity and community identity, eligibility is defined to be inclusive of the broad relationships of belonging.
- Areas where the project is happening must be within:
- Bois Forte Band of Chippewa;
- Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa;
- Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa;
- Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe (District 1);
- Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe (District II);
- Minnesota Counties of Aitkin, Carlton, Cook, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake and/or St. Louis.
For more information, visit Northland Foundation.
