NDN Collective Announces 2023 Community Self-Determination Grantee Partners

For Immediate Release: November 29, 2023

Rapid City, SD – Today, NDN Collective announced recipients of the 2023 Community Self-Determination Grant, to support and invest in the long-term visions, priorities, and power-building of Indigenous Nations, communities, and Peoples.

Seventy-two Indigenous-led organizations from across Turtle Island and related Island Nations working to Defend, Develop, and Decolonize Indigenous Peoples and Mother Earth will receive grants of up to $100,000 annually for up to two years.

“We have seen the impact that investing in the self-determination of Indigenous Peoples is having as they continue to address some of the most critical challenges that humanity is facing,” said Nicole Yanes, Director of Grantmaking at NDN Collective.

“Our communities are ready for the kind of resources we have been liberating and rematriating back to our people. As we work toward rematriating even more wealth, we hope that one day the need no longer exists.”

“I am honored to assist with the rematriation of resources to Indigenous communities through the Community Self-Determination grant program,” said Janet Maylen, program officer at NDN Collective. “Flexible, multi-year support enables power-building for grantee partners by supporting Indigenous-led solutions to catalyze positive change in their communities.”

Introducing the 2023 Community Self-Determination Grantee Partners:

Cayuga Nation Sour Springs Longhouse

Community Nimkii Azhibikong

Gitga’at First Nation

Gwa’sala-‘Nakwaxda’xw Nation

Moccasin Footprint Society

Tiny House Warrior Project

Tl’azt’en Nation

Micronesia Climate Change Alliance

Colectivo Mixe COLMIX

Comité del Agua de la Nación Comcaac

Comunidad Indígena de Maguey Blanco, Ixmiquilpan, Hidalgo

Comunidad Indigena Santiago Teotlaxco

Consultoria Especializada en Proyectos Municipales Y Empresariales S.C

Coordinadora de Pueblos Unidos por el Cuidado y Defensa del Agua (COPUDA)

Jittoa Bat Nataka Weri

Tribu Lipan Apache en Nogales Sonora

Unidad de la Fuerza Indígena y Campesina

Aha Punana Leo

Aina Aloha Economic Futures

Alaska Native Women’s Resource Center

Bad River Tribe

Bidii Baby Foods LLC

California Indian Museum and Cultural Center

Chief Seattle Club

Cultural Fire Management Council

Dakota Wicohan

Dream of Wild Health

El Colectivo en Defensa del Agua, Selva y Vida del Territorio Maya (Colectivo ViDAS)

Euchee Yuchi Language Project, Inc.

Fåha’ Digital Media

Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa

Friends of the Akwesasne Freedom School, Inc.

Greater Cincinnati Native American Coalition

Hopi Tutskwa Permaculture Institute

Hui o Kupa

INDIGENOUS LED

Indigenous Protector Movement

International Indian Treaty Council

Ka Pā Kākau Uhi Hawaiʻi

Keres Children’s Learning Center

Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma

Koʻihonua

Makoce Agriculture Development

Mauna Kea Education and Awareness

Mixteco/Indigena Community Organizing Project (MICOP)

Movement Rights

Native American Advancement Foundation

Native Renewables

Native Roots Network

Niibi Center/White Earth Nation

North Leupp Family Farms, Inc./Navajo

Oaye Luta Okolakiciye

Organized Village of Kake

Pawnee Seed Preservation

Purpose Focused Alternative Learning Corporation

Red Cloud Renewable

Rocky Boy Veterans Center

Rosebud Economic Development Corp

Sicangu CDC

Sitting Bull College Lakota Language

Skokomish Indian Tribe

Tusweca Tiospaye

United Confederation of Taino People

UTOPIA PDX

Waadokodaading Immersion School

Waawaate Programs

Wambli Ska Society

Warm Springs Community Action Team

We Are Healers

YAKANAL Indigenous Youth Cultural Exchange Program

Yaquis of Southern California

Yellow Bird Life Ways Center

Congratulations to all the amazing Community Self-Determination Grantee Partners!

Learn more about the Community Self-Determination Grant here

Visit our Grants & Fellowship page to learn more about all of our grant and fellowship opportunities.

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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.