NDN Collective Awards $4.5 Million in Grants to 105 Indigenous-led Projects for Transition & Resilience

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 16, 2020

Rapid City, SD – Today, The NDN Collective, Inc. (NDN) is honored to announce 105 outstanding Indigenous projects selected in Phase 2 of our COVID-19 Response Project under our theme of Transition and Resilience. This phase of the project represents over $4.5 million in grant awards made to Indigenous-led projects across North America. 

NDN’s COVID-19 Response Project was created earlier this year to quickly provide grants to Tribal Nations, frontline Indigenous-led organizations, and individuals who are providing essential services to Indigenous communities in North America during the current global health pandemic.  The overall design of the project was to provide rapid response resources to Indigenous communities bracing from economic impacts, stresses to public services and combating the spread of misinformation due to COVID-19. 

“Now, in Phase 2 of the COVID-19 Response Project, NDN’s team was able to identify focus areas that responded to the dynamic needs of Tribes and Indigenous led organizations who are working to protect their communities from the coronavirus,” said Gaby Strong, NDN Foundation’s Managing Director. “There’s been a mobilized  response to the COVID-19 Pandemic, which included efforts to renew, reclaim and re-adapt to regenerative, sustainable methods of community health, development and wellbeing.   NDN supports those efforts which show deep commitments to developing innovative, sustainable solutions not only for the short-term crisis management, but for the long-term prosperity of Indigenous people.”

NDN’s Phase 2 approach was enhanced by community, applicant and grantee feedback in Phase 1 of the NDN COVID-19 Response Project.  The recommendations from NDN’s network, combined with NDN’s mission to empower Indigenous communities towards a more just and equitable future, helped shape the forward thinking approach to the offered opportunities.  Grants awarded in Phase 2 respond to one or more of the following focus areas: Food Security and Clean Water, Education, Technology and Broadband, Shelter and Basic Needs, Indigenous Health and Safety, Regenerative Economic Development, Sustainable, Regenerative Community Resilience Planning, Partner Collaborators & Indigenous Movement Builders.

For more information on NDN’s COVID-19 Response Project please visit the NDN Collective website at https://ndncollective.org/covid-19/. Also, stay tuned for forthcoming information on NDN’s Self-Determination Grants starting in 2021. Sign up here for updates. 

Congratulations to all 105 Grantees:

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ABOUT THE NDN COLLECTIVE 

Founded in 2018, the NDN Collective’s mission is to build the collective power of Indigenous Peoples, communities, and Nations to exercise our inherent rights to self-determination, while fostering a world that is built on a foundation of justice and equity for all people and the planet. We do this through building Indigenous power in partnership with the philanthropic and investment sectors.