Deadline: 31-Oct-24
NDN Collective is accepting applications for the Community Action Fund which provides urgent funding to frontline organizations, groups and individuals most impacted by local challenges, ensuring that resources and decision-making lies with those who are best equipped to solve pressing issues and address imminent threats.
The Community Action Fund (CAF) furthers Indigenous Peoples’ mobilization strategies as it relates to the defense, development, and decolonization of peoples and the planet.
The CAF is meant for those most impacted by issues such as climate change, resource extraction, and systemic racism, to ensure resources and decision-making lies with those most equipped to address immediate challenges. CAF supports community organizing and movement building work designed to shift the political and financial systems that negatively impact Indigenous communities. CAF prioritizes frontline, grassroots and community-based efforts that defend Indigenous people’s rights, communities and nations, including responses to climate disasters.
Funding Information
- Grant Amount: The average grant award is $15,000 but can range up to $40,000.
- Grant Term: Grant terms are a maximum of six months.
- What Does Support Look Like:
- CAF supports community organizing and movement building work designed to shift the political and financial systems that negatively impact the communities.
- This may include direct action and climate disaster response efforts, comprehensive organizing work; frontline and camp infrastructure, and community-based response to climate disasters such as flooding, fires, earthquakes.
- Direct expenses may include funding for travel, climate response items, supplies, equipment, consultants, contractual services and staff that support various forms of NVDA (non-violent direct action), i.e., marches, camps, boycotts, prayer vigils and walks that are part of an action, organizing or protest to affect change. Action may also include community-based response to climate events such as flooding, fires and earthquakes.
Ineligible Funding
- The community action fund does not support:
- Ongoing planned projects/activities/service delivery programs
- Annual operating costs
- Bridge/gap funding
- Scholarships
- Capital projects or land purchase
- Events
- Sponsorships
- Beyond the direct grants, Community Action grantees may receive support and amplification from the NDN Collective platform to get the word out about campaigns. Grantees are encouraged (but not required) to leverage the grant as a match to secure additional supporters and funding for their causes.
Geographic Focus
- North America: the United States and the U.S. territories of American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Boriken/Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, as well as Canada and Mexico.
Eligibility Criteria
- NDN Foundation provides grants to Indigenous-led organizations, Tribes, groups, projects and individuals whose work, goals and intentions align with the NDN mission, values, core principles and strategies. NDN grantmaking is intended to honor and advance the self-determination of Indigenous Peoples.
- Organizations/Individuals:
- Grantmaking may be provided to the following recipients:
- Indigenous-led non-profit organizations. Indigenous-led is defined as 100% board of directors/decision-makers, and 70% staff.
- U.S.-based Tribal Nations, tribal non-profit entities, Alaska Native Villages, or their non-profit entities, Indigenous-led Native Hawaiian organizations.
- First Nations or Aboriginal communities, groups, and organizations based in Canada.
- Indigenous communities, groups, and organizations based in Mexico.
- Indigenous owned businesses in the US and related Island Nations, Canada or Mexico
- Individual Indigenous people who are connected to the direct action and are willing to assume the tax liability for the grant.
For more information, visit NDN Collective.