Deadline: 2-Dec-24
The Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples is seeking applications for the Thriving Women Program that recognize Indigenous women and girls’ inherent strength and capacity for healing, leadership, and regenerating positive futures.
Thriving Women centers and uplifts Indigenous women’s leadership and strategies to reclaim traditional matrilineal lifeways that have sustained and built nations since time immemorial. It recognizes the targeting of Indigenous women and girls as a manifestation of ongoing colonization and the link between extractive industries and violence against Mother Earth. The program supports grassroots, Indigenous women-led and serving initiatives to prevent and remedy gender oppression including strategies addressing Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two Spirit Relatives; uplifts matrilineal centered traditional health and wellness practices (birth-keeping, healing, arts, etc.), bolsters coming-of-age ceremonies; advances multi-generational leadership development, and revives women’s healing and well-being through food systems and land-based practices.
Thriving Women is implemented through the following pathways for gender and social justice:
- Birth-keeping, Motherhood, and Kinship
- Honoring the Rights of Mother Earth
- Reclaiming a World Without Violence Against Women, Girls, and Two-Spirits
- Women and Girls’ Cultural Vitality and Leadership
Funding Information
- Grant Award Range: Up to $50,000 (average grant award: $20,000 – $30,000).
Eligibility Criteria
- All applications must be submitted by Indigenous Peoples. Eligible applicants:
- Emerge from, are led by, and grounded in, the Indigenous Peoples served and who are most impacted by the issues, methods, and outcomes.
- Nurture and center the culture, language, traditional knowledge systems, and healthy lifeways of the Indigenous Peoples involved in the project.
- Have 80% or more Indigenous women-identified Board of Directors, and an Indigenous woman Executive Director or Project leaders.
- Are a non-profit with 501(c)3 tax exempt status, a federally-recognized tribal nation project, have a fiscal sponsor or are a SGF Affiliate Project. If fiscally sponsored, the Seventh Generation Fund prioritizes applicants with Native or People of Color fiscal sponsoring organizations.
- Prioritizing community-based projects with budgets of <$500,000.
- Are in good standing with the Seventh Generation Fund without reports due or outstanding issues.
- Seventh Generation Fund annually raises funds to grant out and has limited funds to distribute throughout different regions of the Indigenous World across the four program pathways. Native Peoples’ organizations and projects are eligible to apply for one grant per calendar year.
- If you are currently receiving grant support from the Seventh Generation Fund, please complete all previous grant reporting requirements before reapplying.
- They do not support: non-Native organizations, scholarships, or religious missionizing efforts.
For more information, visit Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples.