FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: DECEMBER 5, 2024
Rapid City, SD – Today, NDN Collective announced the recipients of the 2024 Community Self-Determination Grant. This grant opportunity supports and invests in the long-term visions, priorities, and power-building of Indigenous Nations, communities, and Peoples.
This year, the Community Self-Determination grant resourced $8 million to 36 Indigenous-led organizations from across Turtle Island and related Island Nations. Each organization will receive grants of up to $125,000 annually for up to two years for their work to Defend, Develop, and Decolonize Indigenous Peoples and Mother Earth.
Through the Community Self-Determination grant, NDN Collective has rematriated more than $47.8 million since 2019.
“Since time immemorial Indigenous communities have relied on their ancestral knowledge and ingenuity to address the challenges they face,” said Thomas Kenote, Program Officer at NDN Collective. “The Community Self-Determination grant program rematriates wealth and resources back to these very communities, utilizing their community-led solutions to create a more just and equitable future for all people and Mother Earth.”
“By supporting these visionary Indigenous-led initiatives, we are investing in the resilience and sovereignty of Indigenous communities,” said Serene Lawrence, Program Officer at NDN Collective. “NDN Collective’s grant programs are not just about funding—it is also about honoring the collective power of the Indigenous people who have long been stewards of the land and their culture. Together, we are advancing a future where Indigenous self-determination and environmental stewardship are central to the well-being of all people and Mother Earth.”
2024 Community Self-Determination Grantee Partners:
7 Pine Medicine Lodge (Ranch)
8th Fire Solar
Abiinooji Aki Inc.
Aboriginal Legal Services as fiscal sponsor for No More Silence
Asociación de Indígenas en Producción Agrícola del Estado de Chiapas, AIPAECH, A.C..
Blue Ocean Law
Center Pole
Chugach Regional Resources Commission
Duk Duk Goose, Inc.
Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians
Fundación de Santa María Para la Promoción Indígena y Agroforestal A. C. as fiscal sponsor for Indigenas 3D
High Prairie Regional Environmental Action Committee as fiscal sponsor for Keepers of the Water
Ho-Chunk Community Development Corporation
Hopi Tutskwa Permaculture Institute
Hopi Utilities Corporation
International Indian Treaty Council as fiscal sponsor for Itepo Ito Te Aniasakane Rio Yaqui Health Project
Kumano I Ke Ala
Lower Sioux Indian Community in the State of Minnesota
Mahchiwminahnahtik Chippewa and Cree Language Revitalization
Mother Kuskokwim Coaliltion
Nááts’íilid Initiative
Native American Community Board
Neegoni Wabun Gi Gay Win Lodge Inc as fiscal sponsor for TEK Elders of Robinson Huron Treaty
Nueva Organización San Salvador Huehuetla SC
Our Hawaii
Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe
Pueblo of Tesuque Utility Authority
SAGE Foundation Inc
SERVICIOS ECOTURISTICOS CAREY SC
Seventh Generation Fund as fiscal sponsor for Tiny House Warriors
Shinnecock Kelp Farmers
Tea Creek
Tribal EcoRestoration Alliance
Waking Women Healing Institute
Wapna’kikewi’skwaq~Women of First Light
Xijuika
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NDN Collective is an Indigenous-led organization dedicated to building Indigenous power. Through organizing, activism, philanthropy, grantmaking, capacity-building, and narrative change, we are creating sustainable solutions on Indigenous terms.