Na’ah Illahee Fund provides resources for Native Communities across the Greater Northwest who are located in AK, ID, OR, MT, WA, WY and British Columbia. NIF seeks to fund projects that aim to revitalize Indigenous lifeways through community programming, capacity building, workshops and skills sharing.
Donor Name: Na’ah Illahee Fund
Country: United States and Canada
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/16/2023
Size of the Grant: up to $25,000
Details:
Food Sovereignty is something that they as Native people must protect and support because of the history of an oppressive culture forcibly removing the inherent rights of Natives to pray, grow, gather, harvest, hunt, fish, feed, share, and care for themselves in their usual and accustomed lands. NIF is looking to provide grants to Native people who are leading community based food sovereignty and sustainability efforts in their communities.
This Food Sovereignty Grant seeks to support their hunter, gather, grower way of life by funding Native organizations and individuals who are working to achieve food sovereignty in their communities as a fundamental right. NIF places a high value on sharing old teachings of growing and harvesting their own foods and medicines, how to gather legally, knowing their food gathering rights and most importantly how to create a unified voice to speak up for these food sovereignty rights and boundaries.
NIF seeks to support
- NIF seek to fund projects led by Indigenous people that aim to increase or create access to traditional foods and medicines through community programming, workshops, and skill sharing. Their goal is to fund those uplifting food sovereign nations that revitalize Indigenous lifeways that prioritize people and the environment over profit.
- Examples of funding requests & projects that qualify:
- Networks that provide opportunities to tend the land and interact with their traditional gathering sites, share gathering techniques, stories and protocols of foods and medicines
- Teaching hunting skills, lifeways of animals, hunting safety, and shared wisdom of respect for game brought to tables, protocols and preparation
- Installation of community kitchens to can and process food from gardening, hunting or fishing to feed community
- Community gardens, family gardens and food forests to provide fresh food, increase community education on gardening practices and harvesting skills
- Community skill-sharing, hands on workshops and program development, designed around Native food system sand medicine gathering, processing, preparation and preservation of food
- Projects that are revitalizing traditional farming and traditional food system practices and lifeways
- Seed harvesting, seed saving, seed sharing and plant harvesting of traditional Native foods
- Creating local sustainable food systems that is based on Traditional Ecological Knowledge
- Resurgence in traditional trade/commerce culture and food cooperatives between communities
- Food sovereignty assessments and community project planning & design
- Creating educational materials geared towards traditional food sovereignty and traditional food gathering rights, tribal sovereignty and field trips to gather
- Traditional breastfeeding trainings to support their first food and nutritional care for birthing families
Funding Information
Grant awards up to $25,000.
Who should apply?
- Applicants must be located in the Greater Northwest region: Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming and British Columbia, and are eligible for funding under this program.
- Indigenous or First Nation-led nonprofit organizations: 501(c)3 or Canadian Registered Charities; or community groups with Fiscal Sponsor (Sponsorship Agreement must be included in the application)
- Indigenous Individuals, Alaska Natives or First Nation Individuals with Tribal Affiliation
- Native American Tribes, Alaska Native Villages, First Nation Bands or Departments of Tribal Governments/First Nation Bands
*For NIF, Indigenous includes anyone who holds tribal affiliation/identifies with Indigenous nations in North, Central, or South America or identifies as Native Hawaiian.
For more information, visit Na’ah Illahee Fund.
