Community Funding

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Community Funding

Giftmaking

Indigenous-led Community Funding

Na’ah Illahee reinvests in and provides resources for Native communities throughout the Northwest corner of Turtle Island, from the Arctic to the Rockies, through funding Indigenous-led projects and providing community-responsive support, technical assistance, and leadership development.

Knowledge & Solutions Reside With Our Communities

Our community is the best at addressing our own needs, but we often lack the resources to implement solutions. Na’ah Illahee Fund’s programming seeks to elevate Indigenous women who are committed to strengthening balanced connections with the land and waters of Mother Earth, supporting all our relations. This enables us to strategically invest directly in Indigenous communities and uphold people who are already doing good work. The goal of this work is to build traditional ecological and modern knowledge, skills, and leadership while developing community-based solutions for environmental and climate justice.

Funding Priorities

We award grants that reach those most vulnerable in hard-to-reach places and who are at risk of severe climate change impacts. We aim to support those populations with little or no access to resources.

Meet a Program Participant:

Alaska Native
Birthworkers Community

We are our ancestors. When we can heal ourselves, we also heal our ancestors, our grandmothers, our grandfathers, and our children. When we heal ourselves, we heal Mother Earth.

-Grandma Rita Pitka Blumenstein (Yup’ik)

Grant Programs

Food Sovereignty Fund

Food Sovereignty Fund

Support for projects such as family and community gardens, sacred seed saving and sharing, traditional food and medicine workshops with skills sharing, re-establishing cooperatives and

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Meet a Program Participant

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Grantmaking Process

Grantmaking Process Infographic: 1. Apply, 2. Review, 3. Notify, 4. Fund, 5. Reflect

Na'ah Illahee Grant Application Process

  1. Apply – Applicants will completely fill out the application via Submittable before the deadline.
  2. Review – Once the grant period has ended, the Grantmaking Committee will convene to review all received applications. The Grantmaking Committee will approve or deny recipients and then award grant funds.
  3. Notify/Award – Recipients will then be notified via email. If approved, an award letter will be sent along with a check for the approved amount. Award letters (and denials) will be sent.
  4. Funding – Checks are sent with award letters via U.S. mail.
  5. Reflect – This is a follow-up report from you. Na’ah Illahee Fund will want to know what impact your efforts have had on your Native community and how the funds were spent. We want to know the outcomes, impacts, and benefits your project will provide, as well as how the grant funds were spent.

Do you need assistance?

If you have questions, seek clarification, or would like some assistance with your application, please contact:
Denise Rubreck, Grant Program Officer
email: denise@naahillahee.org
phone: (206) 565-8041.

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