Deadline: 7-Jun-22
The Seventh Generation Fund is now inviting applications for its Flicker Fund Program that provides 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 support 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: $500 to $50,000 (average grant award: $10,000 – $25,000)
Eligibility Criteria
- All applications must be submitted by Indigenous Peoples. Eligible applicants:
- Emerge from and are led by the Indigenous Peoples served and who are impacted by the issues, methods, and outcomes.
- Nurture and center the culture, language, values, traditional knowledge systems, and healthy lifeways of the Indigenous Peoples involved in and served by the project.
- Have 80% or more Indigenous Peoples in decision-making leadership as the Board of Directors or other decision-making entity, and have an Indigenous Executive Director, all Indigenous co-Directors/Project leaders, and Indigenous Peoples engaged throughout all aspects of the organization.
- Are an SGF Affiliate Project, a non-profit with 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status, a federally-recognized tribal nation project, or have a fiscal sponsor. If fiscally sponsored, the Seventh Generation Fund prioritizes applicants with Indigenous or People of Color fiscal sponsoring organizations.
- Have a project budget of <$500,000. Community-based organizing projects are prioritized.
- Are in good standing with Seventh Generation Fund without reports due or outstanding issues.
For more information, visit https://7genfund.submittable.com/submit