Deadline: 28-Mar-25
Indigenous People Resilience Fund is seeking applications for the Food Sovereignty Bundles Program to support projects centered on food sovereignty, food security, and nutritional health and wellness, while embedding Indigenous knowledge and practices to achieve community resilience.
Objectives
- IPRF will honour that the community knows what the community needs. IPRF welcomes applications from community partners that are rooted in Indigenous ways of knowing and being.
- Be bold and creative in proposing projects that foster and support long-term, holistic approaches to community wellness and resilience. This can be achieved through some of the following ways:
- Transferring traditional knowledge through land-based learning;
- Strengthening community connectivity;
- Supporting mental health and spiritual wellness through ceremony;
- Fostering cultural programming;
- Reclaiming food sovereignty, and;
- Stewarding the land and water for future generations.
Funding Information
- Eligible organizations and groups can apply for $5,000 to $100,000.
Eligible Projects
- Eligible projects must:
- Be Indigenous-led, and;
- Serve Indigenous Peoples (First Nations, Métis, Inuit).
- Ineligible Projects
- Projects that are designed for fundraising purposes;
- Projects that are fully completed before application;
- Profit-generating projects or activities, and;
- Any activity taking place outside of Canada.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants are required to share how their project assists the Indigenous populations they serve and the impact of the project on their community. Eligible organizations/groups must:
- Be Indigenous-led and serving. Indigenous Peoples Resilience Fund defines “Indigenous-led” as organizations, groups or collectives that are created, informed, and governed by and for Indigenous people. Their operations and initiatives prioritize Indigenous leadership and knowledge at all levels of decision-making to ensure that Indigenous community perspectives, needs, and cultural values guide their program and project initiatives. Initiatives supported by IPRF must primarily serve and benefit Indigenous people and further Indigenous community wellness and resilience. A minimum of 51% of formal Board, Council and/or Committee members must be Indigenous people;
- Be one of the following:
- A community group
- A registered not-for-profit organization
- A registered charity (qualified donee)
- A community accepted and elected First Nations (bands), Métis, and Inuit Councils
- Have a bank account in the name of the organization/group.
Ineligible Organizations
- The following are ineligible and cannot apply to the Indigenous Peoples Resilience Fund:
- Individuals;
- For-profit companies;
- Non-Indigenous-led organizations;
- The Government of Canada (federal government);
- Provincial and territorial governments;
- Organizations/groups based outside of Canada;
- The Crown, and;
- The United Nations.
For more information, visit IPRF.