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Introduction
Introduction
This page includes organizations, programs, and funding opportunities for indigenous people. Each topic is divided by location including International, regional or by country.
Some of these organizations are indigenous lead for indigenous issues, while others are broader groups that focus on issues that overlap with indigenous people, and they include indigenous people among those they serve.
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Since the topics on this page are quite broad, we started using icons to help you glance over to see what may be applicable to you, your situation, and your goals.
Community & People
Community & People
🎓 Education & Training
🌽 🍅 Farming & Food Security - may include indigenous seed saving/sharing, or education opportunities
💰 Financial - economic improvements for indigenous communities, grants, reparations, etc.
⚖️ Justice
🛋️ Therapists & Therapy
🌈 Queer - LGBTQIA+ - Trans topics, actions, and rights.
💧 Water Security & Access
Ecosystems & Wildlife
Ecosystems & Wildlife
🌳 Forests & Rainforests - Protection, restoration, and planting
🐠 Coral Reefs / Fish
🐃 Bison/Buffalo reintroduction (we couldn't get the American Bison icon to work, sorry!)
🏞️ Rewilding - Conservation - Restoration
Energy Security & Accessibility
Energy Security & Accessibility
☀️ Solar Energy
🌬️ Wind Energy
Groups By Location
Groups By Location
International
International
Private Inequity 💰"is a global network of academics, investors, grassroots organizers, NGOs, climate activists and frontline communities working together to get private equity firms to stop investing in projects that drive climate change, perpetuate environmental racism, violate Indigenous rights, and cause harm to workers, neighborhoods, and local economies."
Europe
Europe
Sweden
Sweden
Rewilding Europe: Swedish Lapland 🏞️"Sápmi – is a unique blend of untamed nature and cultural heritage. Here old-growth forests, mountains, glaciers, free-flowing rivers and extensive wetlands co-exist with the indigenous Sami community since millennia. There is no other place in continental Europe with such vast, uninhabited, road-less and original landscapes as Swedish Lapland."
North America
North America
🐃 Intertribal Buffalo Council (ITBC) 🐃 "is a collection of 69 federally recognized Tribes from 19 different states whose mission is to restore buffalo to Indian Country in order to preserve our historical, cultural, traditional, and spiritual relationship for future generations. To reestablish healthy buffalo populations on Tribal lands is to reestablish hope for Indian people. By returning the buffalo to Tribal lands will help heal the land, the animal, and the spirit of the Indian people." Click here to learn about the technical services they offer to member tribes.
At present the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in South Dakota has the largest Native American-managed herd of Bison.
USA
USA
First Nations Development Institute 💰 🎓 ⚖️ "improves economic conditions for Native Americans through direct financial grants, technical assistance & training, and advocacy & policy."
Interlocking Roots 🌽 🍅 🌈 "is a network of QT*BIPoC farmers, foodies, and earth stewards. We center food and earthwork as decolonization tools to combat isolation, trauma, and accountability within our movement, community, and work spaces. We connect with one another, share lessons, affirm queer and trans* identities through our plant ancestor and life stories, talk about queer ecology, strategize and eat together! We honor our multifaceted strategies for liberation as sacred rituals that will transcend volatile political times and nourish our collective spirit."
National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network (NQTTCN) 🌈 🛋️ "is a healing justice organization committed to transforming mental health for queer and trans people of color (QTPoC). We work at the intersection of movements for social justice and the field of mental health to integrate healing justice into both of these spaces. Our overall goal is to increase access to healing justice resources for QTPoC."
Navajo Water Project 💧 "1 in 3 Navajo still don’t have a sink or a toilet. So we bring clean, hot and cold running water to families across New Mexico, Utah and Arizona."
RADIKO 🌈 "an organization that encourages marginalized communities to join the fight against climate change, putting on climate justice workshops for queer communities across the country."
TransLash Media 🌈 "is an independent news organization that tells trans stories to save trans lives."
Arizona
Navajo Water Project 💧 "1 in 3 Navajo still don’t have a sink or a toilet. So we bring clean, hot and cold running water to families across New Mexico, Utah and Arizona."
New Mexico
Navajo Water Project 💧 "1 in 3 Navajo still don’t have a sink or a toilet. So we bring clean, hot and cold running water to families across New Mexico, Utah and Arizona."
Sacred Defense Fund "is a new Native-led nonprofit dedicated to protecting the lands, waters, and communities of Turtle Island. Sacred Defense Fund uses media storytelling, legal advocacy, and community organizing to fight for Indigenous sovereignty and environmental justice. Our team is a collective of land defenders, water protectors, and knowledge keepers dedicated to the strengthening of our sovereign rights and defense of our sacred sites."
North Dakota
South Dakota
Siċaŋġu Co 🌽 🍅 🐃 💰 🎓 🏡"As the economic engine of the Siċaŋġu Lak̇ota nation, Siċaŋġu Co’s purpose is to improve the financial and social well-being of our tribal relatives. We are guided and inspired by the 7Gen Vision, which imagines the type of world we’d like to see our descendants living in 175 years from now. We ask, How do we live today to create a healthy, just, abundant world for our grandchildren?
Grounded in our ancestral and cultural wisdom, with a deep understanding of the profound challenges faced by our people, Siċaŋġu Co is working towards Wicozani, or “the good way of life” for the Siċaŋġu Oyate – holistic health, economic self-sufficiency, cultural revitalization, sustainable housing, food sovereignty, climate resilience, and shared, lasting prosperity.
Siċaŋġu Co draws strength from the words uttered by many relatives who have gone before us: “Nake Nula Wauŋ” – I am always prepared, anytime, anywhere, for anything."
Texas
Texas Tribal Buffalo Project (TTBP) 🐃 "is a non-profit dedicated to the developing relationship of our relatives the Iyanee’/ Buffalo and reconnection and healing of generational trauma of the Lipan Apache and other indigenous communities and tribes in Texas. The American Bison that once ruled the southern plains and provided Native Americans living in Texas with food, homes, clothing, medicine, tools, and many other essentials of living, reached near extinction near the end of the 19th century. Recently, the Bison have experienced a comeback. TTBP provides a resurgence of native life that promotes the health and vitality of the land and the people who utilize the meat and other valuable products of the Bison."
"This project is an indigenous women-led movement, aiming to reclaim the ancestral remains, spirituality, culture, knowledge, and resources of Texas Indigenous communities. TTBP is re-establishing the traditional homeland of the Lipan Apache and other indigenous nations while preserving the home range of the Southern Plains Bison. Conserving the wildlife of Texas will also strengthen and reclaim the indigenous connection to the lands and traditional knowledge. There are ~4,500 Lipan Apache people in Texas (lipanapache.org)."
Utah
Navajo Water Project 💧 "1 in 3 Navajo still don’t have a sink or a toilet. So we bring clean, hot and cold running water to families across New Mexico, Utah and Arizona."
South America
South America
Amazon Watch 🌳 ⚖️ "is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 1996 to protect the rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with Indigenous and environmental organizations in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability, and the preservation of the Amazon's ecological systems."
Grants & Funding
Grants & Funding
International
International
Reef Check Scholarship Fund 🐠 🎓 "Reef Check is offering scholarships to qualified applicants from diverse backgrounds. The goal of our Scholarship Fund is to increase diversity in science and provide opportunities for participation in Reef Check programs without financial barriers. It aligns with our pursuit of Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) in all that we do. Scholarships will cover the cost of a Reef Check Training or participation in Reef Check’s Dive into Science program. We also offer volunteers opportunities to utilize the skills acquired from these courses and put them into action to contribute to Reef Check’s mission to save our reefs.
Reef Check Training Scholarships are for certified SCUBA divers to participate in a Reef Check training to become a certified Reef Check Citizen Scientist.
Reef Check’s Dive into Science Scholarships are for individuals who are not yet SCUBA certified and will provide SCUBA training and subsequent diving experience, culminating in a Reef Check Citizen Scientist certification."
North America
North America
Canada
Canada
Bullfrog Energy ☀️ "Activists and organizers across the country are working to transition their communities away from fossil fuels. We created our community-based green energy projects grant to provide critical funding for these local efforts.
All bullfrogpowered customers help fund these small-scale, community-led projects, including solar panels on schools and in Indigenous communities, education and training programs, and a cleantech accelerator."Clean Energy for Rural and Remote Communities Program ☀️ 🌬️"An additional $300 million is available until 2027 for your clean energy projects in Indigenous, rural and remote communities across Canada." - Government of Canada
Grants to Reimburse Treaty Negotiation Loans to Indigenous Groups Who Have Settled a Comprehensive Land Claim "The overall objective is to ensure that Indigenous groups, who have repaid their comprehensive land claim negotiation loan debt resulting from their comprehensive claims settlements, are treated fairly and compensated for this amount.
The nature of the repayment of loan debt repaid to Canada as a result of a settled comprehensive land claim does not lend itself to the development of direct targets/indicators as it is funding provided for a unique one-time transaction and gesture of reconciliation, ensuring fair treatment between groups for which loans were forgiven and those groups who have already settled their claims by reimbursing any monies already repaid to Canada and providing the means with which to further their achievements in gap-closing investment opportunities.
The expected result is that all groups who have repaid their comprehensive land claim negotiation loan debt are reimbursed according to the schedule of payments contained in the letter sent to each Indigenous group.
Performance results will be reported in Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada’s (CIRNAC) Departmental Plans and Departmental Results Report.
In the Departmental Results Framework, this authority falls under the core responsibility, Rights and Self-Determination."
USA
USA
First Nations Development Institute: Grantmaking "improves economic conditions for Native Americans through direct financial grants, technical assistance & training, and advocacy & policy."
Iowa
Des Moines
Native American Homeownership Initiative (NAHI) "eligible households may receive up to $15,000 for down payment and closing cost assistance."
Private Inequity "is a global network of academics, investors, grassroots organizers, NGOs, climate activists and frontline communities working together to get private equity firms to stop investing in projects that drive climate change, perpetuate environmental racism, violate Indigenous rights, and cause harm to workers, neighborhoods, and local economies."
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