Deadline: 31-Oct-2024
The Indigenous Youth Roots is pleased to announce the Land and Food Sovereignty Stream Funding Program, provided to projects/groups that seek to create impactful community change and increase the wellness, resiliency and engagement of Indigenous youth.
The Land and Food Sovereignty Funding Stream aims to increase opportunities to participate in land-based programming, learn about food and medicines and engage with knowledge keepers. Projects in this stream need to be Indigenous-led and youth-focused, although community focused and intergenerational activities can be run.
Priorities
- There is a priority in this stream to support:
- Indigenous grassroots groups and collectives
- Groups that have experience running programming and projects, but are looking to scale to a new level or try something new
- Projects that have an appropriate scale and scope for the funding provided (i.e., engagement numbers and frequency make sense for the funding requested)
- Projects that are multi-dimensional (i.e., are doing more than just one thing, and are looking to improve wellness overall)
Focus Areas
- Successful projects will fall within the following areas:
- Community Gardens and Food Knowledge Programming
- Projects that focus on increasing access to foods, knowledge about traditional and healthy foods and building skills around planting, growing and harvesting. Projects in this focus area can include: community gardens, initiatives to start family gardens, workshops about cooking, harvesting and preserving etc.
- Digital Land Connections
- Land-based Camps and Programming
- Projects will engage youth in participating in programming on the land. These can include overnight camps or workshop series. Projects will work to increase youth’s connection to the land and knowledge of food and land teachings. Projects in this focus area can include: medicine walks, ceremony, foraging activities, water-based projects (such as water walks), recreational land-based recreation activities (e.g., canoeing), language camps, traditional hunting and fishing and other activities.
- Sustainable Food Systems
- Projects will focus on revitalizing traditional food systems, including increasing the knowledge of community around preservation and re-emergence. Project can include activities such as improving soil health, mapping territory to identify risk factors (such as chemical run off, invasive species), learning the stories of food, planting projects, and protecting water ecosystems (wild rice revitalization, etc.).
- Community Gardens and Food Knowledge Programming
Funding Information
- Funding of up to $20,000 will be provided.
Eligibility Criteria
- Creation will prioritize funding grassroots youth groups consisting of a minimum of 2 Indigenous youth.
- Eligible groups and projects include:
- Unincorporated/grassroots youth groups and collectives
- Small, incorporated youth groups (note: IYR defines a small organization as groups that have 1-8 full time employees and an operating budget of less than $500,000)
- Youth Councils
Ineligibility Criteria
- Ineligible groups and projects:
- Individuals
- Projects that are not youth-led (or where the majority of leadership is 30+)
- Non-Indigenous organizations
- Projects taking place outside of Canada
- For profit corporations and businesses
- Groups that have an organizational budget of over $500,000
For more information, visit Indigenous Youth Roots.