Deadline: 14-Apr-25
The Esther Martinez Immersion: Native American Language Preservation and Maintenance Program helps Native Americans ensure the survival and vitality of Native American languages through immersion language instruction.
Funding Information
- Expected total program funding: $3,000,000.
- Minimum award amount for the first budget period (award floor): 100,000
- Maximum award amount for the first budget period (award ceiling): 900,000
- Project periods can be 36 months, 48 months, or 60 months.
- For projects that are 36 months, the project period and budget period are the same. ANA will award all federal funds at the start of the award.
- For project periods of 48 or 60 months, ANA will award the first 36-month budget period at the start of the award. The remaining periods of performance will be awarded as follows:
- 48-month projects have a $300,000 ceiling for the remaining period of performance.
- 60-month projects have a $600,000 ceiling for the remaining period of performance.
- The maximum amount of federal funding you can spend each year is $300,000 but you are not required to spend the same amount each year.
Requirements
- EMI projects must meet the requirements for either a Native American language nest or a Native American language survival school, as defined by the Esther Martinez Native American Languages Preservation Act. These requirements are as follows:
- Language nests are site-based educational programs that must do all of the following:
- Provide instruction and child care in a Native American language for at least five children under the age of seven, for an average of at least 500 hours per year per child.
- Provide classes in such languages for parents or legal guardians of children enrolled in the language nest.
- Ensure that a Native American language is the dominant medium of instruction in the Native American language nest.
- Native American language survival schools are site-based educational programs for school-age students that must do all of the following:
- Provide an average of at least 500 hours of instruction using one or more Native American languages for at least 10 students for whom a Native American language survival school is their principal place of instruction.
- Develop instructional courses and materials.
- Provide teacher training.
- Work toward a goal of all students achieving fluency in a Native American language.
- Promote academic proficiency in mathematics, reading, and sciences.
- Be located in an area that has a high number or percentage of Native American students.
Eligibility Criteria
- These types of organizations may apply:
- Federally recognized Indian tribes, as recognized by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)
- Incorporated non-federally recognized tribes.
- Incorporated state-recognized Indian tribes.
- Incorporated, nonprofit multipurpose, community-based Indian organizations.
- Native Community Development Financial Institutions.
- Consortia of Indian tribes.
- Alaska Native villages as defined in the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) and/or nonprofit village consortia.
- Nonprofit Native organizations in Alaska with village-specific projects.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.