Deadline: 22-Oct-21
Applications are now open for the Let’s Help to End Gender-Based Violence & Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & People (MMIWP) Grant Program to provide resources for Native communities across the Pacific Northwest who are located in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia.
Na’ah Illahee Fund values and respects the dignity of all people. They work to combat all forms of gender-based violence against their Native people and work to help end the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & People (MMIWP).
This NIF grant opportunity will provide financial support for innovative, collaborative activities that will raise awareness and develop partnerships working to end the crisis and fund those that help heal those left behind. Na’ah Illahee acknowledges that their at-risk Native relatives are being targeted.
For this reason, they advocate for women, girls, and two-spirit people’s access to quality, multi-sectoral services essential for their safety, protection and recovery from acts of violence.
Funding Information
- Indigenous Individuals: $1,000 up to $5,000
- Indigenous Community Groups: $1,000 up to $10,000
- Non-profit organizations or Tribes/First Nation Bands: $1,000 up to $25,000
What they Seek To Support?
- They seek to fund Indigenous organizations, groups, individuals and Tribes/First Nations who dedicate time and resources to work on the epidemic of Gender-Based Violence and Murdered & Missing Indigenous Women/People (MMIWP) in their communities.
- This grant is aimed at subject matter experts and trusted messengers to victims and their families–those people who are doing the day-to-day work of addressing and working to help end gender-based violence and MMIWP.
Examples of type of work they’re looking to fund:
- Those creating networks to find MMIWP (social media or other)
- Training communities to increase local skills toward intervention and prevention E.g. “How to do a proper search”
- MMIWP Indigenous-led research & data collection work
- MMIWP or Gender-Based Violence Awareness campaigns
- Cultural Trainings and teachings to end violence towards indigenous women & children
- MMIWP media advocacy campaigns
- Trainings on trafficking interventions and prevention strategies & implementation
- Those working on independent advocacy in their communities through campaigns such as “Bad Date Lists”, i.e. known offenders to be on the lookout for
- Providing advocacy for MMIWP victims and their families; especially for children who are left behind
- MMIWP Policy advocacy grounded in recognition of tribal sovereignty work for reauthorization of Violence Against Women’s Act, strengthening implementation of Savannah’s Act and the Not Invisible Act
- Those providing MMIWP Peer Support and/or connecting MMIWP families to create healing opportunities
- Those working on MMIWP Survivor Resiliency by providing space for healing E.g. ribbon skirt classes for survivors and other creative ways
- Projects that serve and reach At-Risk Youth who are aging out of foster care, the highest demographic group who are targeted
- Those providing grief counseling therapy and Ambiguous Loss therapy (intergenerational trauma)
- Groups or programs that provide Aftercare Services for loved ones who come home
Eligibility Criteria
- Indigenous or First Nation-led nonprofit organizations or community groups with Fiscal Sponsor (80%+ Indigenous people in a leadership role With Tribal Affiliation)
- 2 Indigenous Individuals or First Nation Individuals (With Tribal Affiliation)
- Native American Tribes, 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 https://www.naahillahee.org/lets-help-end-gender-based-violence-mmiwp-grant
