Deadline: 2-Dec-24
The Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples is providing support to Crisis Impacted Indigenous Communities and Nations.
Embodying the fast flight and power of a flicker – a good medicine bird, Flicker Fund Program responds to already vulnerable and stressed Indigenous communities on the frontlines of climate caused crisis and emergencies. It responds to critical needs ranging from the diverse and varying impacts of the COVID-19 global pandemic and its rippling effects, to climate fires and drought, as well as other disasters that devastate Indigenous Peoples, communities and Nations and that impact their ability to live healthy, safe, and vibrant lives.
The Flicker Fund implements its work through the following pathways to assure Indigenous families, clans, communities, and Nations not only survive, but can thrive:
- Basic And Urgent Health focusing on essential needs for wellness, sanitation and hygiene of the most vulnerable with a focus on elders, multi-generational households and families with children under the age of five years old.
- Traditional Healing Practices and Remedies supporting growing and cultivation of medicinal food systems, and culturally-relevant strategies for immune support.
- Historic and Cultural Teachings including – as appropriate – the sharing of prophecies, stories, and lifeways that advance traditional knowledge systems informing community members on health, healing, survival and thriving strategies, and moving forward with vitality.
Funding Information
- Grant Award Range: Up to $50,000 (average grant award: $20,000 – $30,000).
Eligibility Criteria
- All applications must be submitted by Indigenous Peoples. Eligible applicants:
- Emerge from, are led by, and grounded in, the Indigenous Peoples served and who are most impacted by the issues, methods, and outcomes.
- Nurture and center the culture, language, traditional knowledge systems, and healthy lifeways of the Indigenous Peoples involved in the project.
- Have 80% or more Indigenous Peoples leadership at the Board of Directors or other decision-making entity, and have an Indigenous Executive Director or Project leaders, and Indigenous Peoples engaged throughout all aspects of the organization.
- Are a non-profit with 501(c)3 tax exempt status, a federally-recognized tribal nation project, have a fiscal sponsor or are a SGF Affiliate Project. If fiscally sponsored, the Seventh Generation Fund prioritizes applicants with Native or People of Color fiscal sponsoring organizations.
- Prioritizing community-based projects with budgets of <$500,000.
- Are in good standing with the Seventh Generation Fund without reports due or outstanding issues.
- Seventh Generation Fund annually raises funds to grant out and has limited funds to distribute throughout different regions of the Indigenous World across the four program pathways. Native Peoples’ organizations and projects are eligible to apply for one grant per calendar year.
- If you are currently receiving grant support from the Seventh Generation Fund, please complete all previous grant reporting requirements before reapplying.
- They do not support: non-Native organizations, scholarships, or religious missionizing efforts.
For more information, visit Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples.