Deadline: 7-Jul-23
Applications are now open for the NDN Collective Abundance Fund to support Indigenous individuals and families residing within the tri-state region of Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota in the rebuilding of Indigenous and generational wealth.
The program supports the re-building of generational wealth, while beginning to address the wealth gap among Indigenous individuals and families. They see this grant as an opportunity to advance the dismantling of colonial thinking that created exploitative and extractive economic systems that have proven un-useful for the People and communities.
Mission
- NDN Collective’s mission is to build the collective power of Indigenous Peoples, communities, and Nations to exercise the inherent right to self-determination while fostering a world that is built on a foundation of justice and equity for all Indigenous People and mother earth. NDN works to transform systems, shift power, and generate sustainable solutions through three core strategies:
- Defend – Indigenous Peoples, communities, and Nations. Defend and protect the land, air, water, and natural resources from negative resource extraction and exploitation.
- Develop – Indigenous Peoples, communities and Nations are developed in a regenerative and sustainable manner based on the values and connection to land, culture, and identity.
- Decolonize – Indigenous ceremonies, cultures, languages, and ways of life are revitalized, recognized, and celebrated.
Funding Information
- Awarded Grantees will receive flexible cash awards of $25,000 or $50,000 to invest in and support their self-determined wealth-building activities. In the spirit of self-determination, individuals and families will decide for themselves what activities to include in their plan that creates long-term, transformative change.
- Grant term start dates for selected grantees are scheduled to begin October 1, 2023.
Activities
This grant will support a one year (12 month) plan for achieving wealth-building goal(s). For example, grants may support the following goals and grant activities:
- Homeownership or Household Stability: Down payment, home repair, home rehabilitation, home addition, multi-generational housing development.
- Education or Skill Building: Tuition, fees, books, supplies.
- Financial Planning: Financial courses, training, financial management/advice.
- Business Development: Capital investments, equipment, supplies.
- Food Security: Sustainable family food systems, such as gardens and greenhouses, land purchase, infrastructure investments, livestock, food processing/production equipment and supplies, hunting/fishing.
- Cultural Traditions: Language, Cultural Knowledge, Healing Practices, Art, cultural mentors, apprenticeships, supplies, equipment.
- Health and Wellness: Activities supporting mental, physical and spiritual well-being.
- Other areas that may be considered that support a reliable livelihood, providing for you and your family in dependable ways to secure the necessities of life, like food, water, shelter, education, healthcare, ceremony, and community. Reliable childcare, technology, debt relief, reliable transportation.
Eligibility Criteria
- They invite Indigenous individuals and families who reside within the tri-state area of Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota to imagine opportunity and envision a collective regenerative economy where all people live well, balanced, and healthy. They believe that by directly supporting Indigenous individuals and families, they are also investing in their communities, societies, economies, and the collective movement.
- You Are Not Eligible to Apply for any NDN grant program that is directed to an individual, such as the Collective Abundance Fund, Radical Imagination, or Changemaker Fellowship if you are currently an NDN Collective:
- Employee
- Member of Board of Directors
- Contractor/Consultant
- Advisory Board/Committee Member
- Immediate blood, adopted family or spouses/domestic partner of an NDN Collective employee or Board of Directors. This includes parents, children, and siblings.
For more information, visit NDN Collective.