Deadline: 2-Dec-24
The Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples is inviting applications for the Community Vitality Grant Program to strengthen Indigenous identity by revitalizing cultural lifeways, creativity, and connection with a focus on community organizing.
The Community Vitality supports projects that are rooted in relationship to land, healing, cultural revitalization and knowledge sharing. The weaving of intergenerational kinships, honoring elder and youth relationships, and nurturing cultural transmission strategies is supported through this work.
The following pathways amplify projects culturally grounded practices and social justice:
- Traditional Foodways bring vitality, food sovereignty, food security, and support for subsistence food strategies to the communities.
- Community-Based Healing rooted in traditional health and healing, community wellness and ceremonial practices.
- Language Revitalization and Creative Expression strengthens cultural identity and intergenerational learning and kinship; tribal language revitalization, communications, and fluency, creativity and arts development, and builds community cohesion.
- Traditional Wisdom and Cultural Knowledge Sharing practices which restore Indigenous identities, knowledge systems and practices, cultural mapping and curriculum development, and culturally rooted leadership development.
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.