Deadline: 14-Apr-25
The Administration for Children and Families – ANA has launched its program to help Native Americans ensure the survival and vitality of Native American languages.
P&M projects work toward that goal by providing services such as:
- Native American language revitalization:
- Providing instruction to increase fluency and proficiency in at least one Native American language for the community served.
- Offering training or certification programs for teachers of Native American languages.
- Developing instructional materials for language revitalization programs.
- Intergenerational Native American language projects:
- Bringing Native American youth and Elders together to facilitate the transfer of Native American language skills across generations.
- Interpretation and translation:
- Training Native Americans to serve as interpreters or translators of a Native American language.
- Technology, transcription, and language materials:
- Developing, printing, and disseminating materials for teaching or enhancing a Native American language program.
- Training Native Americans to produce or participate in television, radio, or podcast programs to be broadcast in a Native American language.
- Compiling, transcribing, and analyzing oral testimony to preserve a Native American language
- Developing language learning apps or technological tools to preserve a Native American language.
Funding Information
- Expected total program funding: $12,000,000
- Minimum award amount (award floor): $100,000
- Maximum award amount is dependent on the project and budget period:
- 12-month project has a $300,000 ceiling.
- 24-month project has a $600,000 ceiling.
- 36-month project has a $900,000 ceiling.
Eligibility Criteria
- These types of organizations are eligible for an award:
- Federally recognized Indian tribes, as recognized by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA).
- Incorporated non-federally recognized tribes.
- Incorporated state-recognized Indian tribes.
- Consortia of Indian tribes.
- Incorporated nonprofit multipurpose, community-based Indian organizations.
- Nonprofit Native organizations in Alaska with village-specific projects.
- Native Community Development Financial Institutions (Native CDFIs).
- Nonprofit Alaska Native community entities or tribal governing bodies (Indian Reorganization Act or Traditional Councils) as recognized by the BIA.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.