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:
| American Indian Center |
| American Indian Community Development Corporation |
| American Indian Community Housing Organization |
| American Indian Cultural Center of San Francisco |
| Asamblea De Los Pueblos Indigenas Por La Soberanía Alimentaria |
| Asociación de Indígenas en Producción Agrícola del Estado de Chiapas, AIPAECH, A.C.. |
| Bay Mills Indian Community |
| Bdote Learning Center |
| BINNIGUENDA ÑAA NE LACHI AC |
| Bishop Paiute Tribe |
| Blackfeet ARMP |
| Blackfeet Nation Stock Growers Association |
| Brave Heart Society |
| California Indian Museum and Cultural Center |
| Center Pole |
| Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigación y Desarrollo Alternativo, U Yich Lu’um, AC |
| Cheyenne River Youth Project |
| Chief Seattle Club |
| Chippewa Cree Tribe |
| Chugach Regional Resources Commission |
| Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission |
| Community Organizing for Unified Power |
| Community Outreach and Patient Empowerment |
| Desarrollo Comunitario y Cultural Ma Nguhe, A. C. |
| Dream of Wild Health |
| Eastern Woodlands Rematriation |
| First Peoples Worldwide |
| Friends of the Akwesasne Freedom School, Inc. |
| Fundación de Santa María Para la Promoción Indígena y Agroforestal A. C. |
| Generations Indigenous Ways |
| Gwich’in Steering Committee |
| Alaska Native Birthworkers Community |
| HIR Wellness Institute |
| Hui Aloha Aina Momona |
| Iakionhnhehkwen |
| Indigenous Ways |
| International Indian Treaty Council |
| Intertribal Agriculture Council |
| Ka Kuxtal Much Meyaj A.C. /Pueblo Maya |
| KAEHU |
| Keepers of the Water |
| Kuaʻāina Ulu ʻAuamo |
| Kumano I Ke Ala |
| Lakota Nation Disaster Resiliency |
| Lower Sioux Indian Community in the State of Minnesota |
| Maggie’s House |
| Makoce Agriculture Development |
| Manidoo Ogitigaan |
| Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin |
| Metlakatla Indian Community |
| Minneapolis American Indian Center |
| Mni Luzahan Creek Patrol |
| Mni Wičhóni Nakíčižiŋ Wóuŋspe |
| Montessori American Indian Childcare Center |
| Mother Nation |
| Mushkegowuk Council |
| Na’ah Illahee Fund |
| Native American Advancement Foundation |
| Native American Community Board |
| Native American Community Development Institute |
| Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance |
| Native Governance Center |
| Native Wellness Institute |
| Nebraska Minority Resource Center |
| Nihi Ké’ Baa-Diné |
| One Rapid City |
| OPATA |
| Piikanii Lodge Health Institute |
| Pine Ridge Girls School |
| Portland Indigenous Marketplace |
| Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation |
| Puyallup Tribe |
| Red Lake Homeless Shelter |
| Roberto Borrero, United Federation of Taino People |
| Rosebud Economic Development Corp |
| Running Strong for American Indian Youth |
| Sacred Places Institute for Indegenous Peoples |
| Sicangu Lakota Treaty Council |
| Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate |
| Sogorea Te Land Trust |
| Southeast Alaska Indigenous Transboundary Commission |
| Spruce Root, Inc. |
| Standing Rock Community Development Corporation |
| Tanka Fund |
| The Cultural Conservancy |
| The Seneca Nation |
| TLALIJ, YOLOJTLI UAN NEMILILISTLIJ |
| Tribal Nations Research Group |
| Tribu Lipan Apache en Nogales Sonora |
| United Houma Nation |
| Uplift Climate |
| Utah Diné Bikéyah |
| Ute Mountain UteTribe |
| Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head, Aquinnah |
| West River Tenants United |
| White Earth Land Recovery Project (WELRP) |
| Wiconi Wawokiya, Inc. |
| Wiikwemkoong Unceded Indian Reserve |
| Wisteqn’eemit: Nez Perce Giving and Sharing |
| Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project |
| YAKANAL Indigenous Youth Cultural Exchange Program |
| Yakutat Tlingit Tribe |
| Yankton Sioux Tribe |
| Yellow Bird Life Ways Center |
| Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council |
| Yurok Tribe Environmental Program (YTEP) |
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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.
