Let’s Help End

GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE

mmiwp

Grant

Status: Closed Overview Details How to Apply Participants

Let’s Help End Gender Based Violence & MMIWP Grant

Support for innovative, collaborative movements that will raise awareness and develop partnerships working to end gender-based violence in Native Communities and end the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous People.

Overview

We work to combat all forms of gender-based violence against our Native people and to end the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & People (MMIWP).

Let’s Help End Gender-Based Violence & MMIWP Grant

Na’ah Illahee Fund values and respects the dignity of all people. We work to combat all forms of gender-based violence against our Native people and to end the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & People (MMIWP).

Na’ah Illahee acknowledges that many of our relatives are highly vulnerable and are being targeted. For this reason, we advocate for women, girls, and two-spirit people’s access to quality, multi-sectoral services essential for their safety, protection, and recovery from acts of violence. This NIF grant opportunity will provide financial support to those community members who bring innovative, collaborative activities to raise awareness and strengthen the work to help bring an end to this crisis.

Details

Status: Closed

Criteria:

We seek to fund Indigenous organizations, groups, individuals, and Tribes/First Nations who dedicate time and resources to work on the epidemic of Gender Based Violence and Murdered & Missing Indigenous Women/People (MMIWP) in their communities. This grant is aimed at subject matter experts and trusted messengers to victims and their families–those people who are doing the day-to-day work of addressing and working to help end gender-based violence and MMIWP.

We Seek to Support

Examples of type of work we’re looking to fund:

Creation of MMIWP Networks to find MMIWP (social media or other)
Local Skills Training in Communities geared toward intervention and prevention E.g., “How to do a proper search.”
MMIWP Indigenous-led research & data collection work.
MMIWP or Gender Based Violence Awareness campaigns.
Cultural Trainings and teachings to end violence towards indigenous women & children.
MMIWP media advocacy campaigns
Trainings on trafficking interventions, trafficking prevention strategies & implementation
Those working on independent advocacy in their communities through campaigns such as “Bad Date Lists”, (i.e., known offenders to be on the lookout for)
MMIWP advocacy for victims and their families; especially for children who are left behind.
MMIWP Policy advocacy grounded in recognition of tribal sovereignty work for reauthorization of Violence Against Women’s Act, strengthening implementation of Savannah’s Act and the Not Invisible Act
MMIWP Peer Support Groups and/or connecting MMIWP families to create healing opportunities.
MMIWP Survivor Resiliency work by providing space for healing (e.g. ribbon skirt classes for survivors and other creative ways)
Projects that serve and reach at-risk youth who are aging out of foster care, the highest demographic group, are targeted.
Grief Counseling Therapy and Ambiguous Loss therapy (intergenerational trauma)
Groups or programs that provide aftercare services for loved ones who come home

Who Should Apply?

Indigenous or First Nation-led nonprofit organizations: 501(c)3 or Canadian Registered Charities
Community groups with Fiscal Sponsor (Sponsorship Agreement must be attached in the application)
Indigenous Individuals, Alaska Natives or First Nation Individuals with Tribal Affiliation
Native American Tribes, Alaska Native Corporations, First Nation Bands or Departments of Tribal Governments/First Nation Bands

For NIF, Indigenous includes anyone who holds tribal affiliation/identifies with Indigenous nations in North, Central, or South America or identifies as Native Hawaiian.

Applicants must be located in the Pacific Northwest region: Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming and British Columbia and are eligible for funding under this grant program.

Grantees are only eligible to receive one Na’ah Illahee Fund grant award per calendar year, as funding is limited and we wish to empower as many Native communities as possible.

What Types of Groups Are We Unable to Support?

We are passionate about our beliefs and we want to be sure that the organizations that we support match our ethics. As a result, our Let’s Help To End Gender-Based Violence & MMIWP grant does not provide grants to groups or individuals who:

Practice or promote racism, sexism, homophobia, or any form of oppression or exploitation of other humans or the natural world
Promote or support violence, aggression, or oppression or any infringement on other people
Force, coerce or exclude others based on religious or spiritual beliefs
Are not making an effort to be environmentally responsible
Are connected to political parties, political rallies or otherwise partisan in their work

How to Apply

Status: Closed

How do you apply?

Applications are submitted via our online granting system or platform called Submittable. Submittable is an online platform that you can pull up on your phone or computer and it is a free service to applicants. Please go to www.Submittable.com to create an account, then fill out the step-by-step application.

Through Submittable we ask for your basic contact information, organization name, project name, name of Tribal community served, governance structure and 501(c)3 EIN # or Registered Charity number; groups who are Fiscally Sponsored (a signed agreement must be attached). The budgetary information we will ask for will be total project budget (asking for general breakdown) and total organization budget.

We ask for: a brief history of your project or organization, tell us how your project works, how it will address concerns in your community, who is involved, what benefits it will have, and other resources you have access to. To save you time during the application process, we suggest you prepare answers to those questions in a document in advance to think your answers through, then when you apply in Submittable it easily allows you to copy and paste into your application. Most questions about your project leave you the space to discuss your projects in your words, such as: “Please explain your MMIWP & Gender-Based work in great detail.” “What do you plan to do and how will you do it?” Please take the time to thoroughly explain your dreams and vision – we truly want to hear.

We understand that access to online platforms can be its own form of exclusivity. If you need to fill out an application in writing, by email, or by phone please contact the Grants Program Officer.

How do we make decisions?

NIF funding priorities & how proposals are evaluated:

Applications must be submitted by the Indigenous applicant.
Incomplete applications will not be considered.
We make grants in support of innovative, solutions-oriented projects that are rooted in cultural traditions.
We support community projects that help connect people to the things that grow (plant relatives), Na’ah Illahee (Mother Earth), four leggeds (animal relatives), fish, birds (those that fly & swim) and cultural teachings.
Preference will be given to intergenerational activities that pass critical knowledge from Elders to next generations.
We will award grants that reach those most vulnerable, often in hard-to-reach places.
We aim to support those populations with little or no access to financial resources.

Please understand that applications often exceed available funding. Our goal is to fully fund all applications, but the amount provided will be based on the availability of funds and the number of requests under review.

What is our grant making process?

Apply Indigenous-only applicants will completely fill out the application via Submittable before the deadline.
Review Once the grant period has ended, the Grants Committee (made up of community members, NIF staff & a board member) will convene to review all applications, select recipients, and award funds. 3. Notify Recipients will then be notified via U.S. mail, so please ensure your current address is on file. If approved, an award letter will be sent along with a check for the approved amount.
Reflect We expect follow up from you about the impact and benefits your project provided to your community.

What are the next steps if your application is approved or denied?

The Grantmaking Committee will perform review of submitted applications from October 21 – November 4, 2022, award letters (and denials) will be sent late November 2022. Na’ah Illahee Fund will send checks with award letters via U.S. mail.

Na’ah Illahee Fund appreciates your efforts and the contributions your work adds to your community. Our reporting requirements are not burdensome and we will follow up to find out what impact your efforts have had in your Native community. That is all we ask of you!

Need assistance?

If you have questions, seek clarification, or would like some assistance with your application, please contact: Joni Crines, Grants Program Officer via email: joni@naahillahee.org or phone: (206) 565-8041.

Participants

Let’s Help End Gender Based Violence & MMIWP Grant Participants

Brief Report

American Indian women face murder rates alarmingly higher than the national average.

This violence that is disproportionately perpetrated against highly vulnerable Native women reflects the intersection of domestic assault, sexual assault, trafficking, and many other crimes.

Na’ah Illahee Fund’s Let’s Help to End Gender-Based Violence and MMIWP Grant has provided funding to Indigenous organizations, groups, individuals, and Tribes/First Nations who dedicate time and resources to work on the epidemic of Gender Based Violence and Murdered & Missing Indigenous Women/People (MMIWP) in our Indigenous communities.

This grant opportunity provided financial support to those who bring innovative, collaborative activities to raise awareness and strengthen gender-based violence and MMIWP work.

Amongst our recipients are subject matter experts and trusted messengers to victims and their families–those people who are doing the day-to-day work, located in the Pacific Northwest regions of Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming, and British Columbia.

We lift up our 2022 grant recipients, our Relatives, with deep gratitude for all they are doing to advocate for women, girls, and two-spirit people’s access to quality, multi-sectoral services essential for their safety, protection, and recovery from acts of violence.

November 2022 – Grant Total $200,000

Congratulations to the 2022 recipients of Na’ah Illahee Fund’s Let’s Help to End Gender-Based Violence and MMIWP Grant.

Fort Nelson First Nation MMIWP Healing Campaign, BC

Community served: Fort Nelson First Nation Location: BC
Program: Gender Based Violence Year: 2022

FNFN Healing campaign plan has three components: 1.) GBV healing opportunities in the form of workshops – two for men and two for women (14+ yrs of age). Traditional activities will be included whether it is crafting of healing on the land – such as hunting, setting up snare traps, hand games, dry meat making, etc) paired with healing circles and snacks 2.) Spreading awareness of MMIWP through a red ribbon campaign and 3.) Bi-monthly local skills training geared towards intervention and prevention focusing on healthy coping mechanisms, self-help and help seeking, safety planning, respectful relationships, and self-care workshops.

MMIP Program Duck Valley, ID

Community served: Shoshone-Paiute Tribe Location: ID
Program: Gender Based Violence Year: 2022

Create a MMIWP program on the Duck Water Reservation on ID/NV border which is very remote. Goal is to build a healthy, just, equitable and sustainable Indigenous community through direct communication and outreach via the in-field community organizer method that we use to facilitate our MMIP Program. Goal is to provide education and advocacy for two-spirit people, address housing needs by providing temporary housing and adding safe long-term housing especially for women, girls and two-spirit people, and hosting ribbon skirt, beading and other creative classes for survivors and their families are some of the planned programming.

STOP Violence Program, ID

Community served: Coeur d’Alene Tribal Community Location: WA
Program: Gender Based Violence Year: 2022

Hold annual MMIWP Conference to keep awareness of this pandemic. STOP Violence Program continuing the next phase in collaboration with organizations, tribes, law enforcement and promoting the advocacy, prosecution response and collection of data of MMIWP in ID and neighboring reservations. Creating MOU’s with various law enforcement agencies (Tribe, State and Federal). Holding regional meetings to promote development of policies and procedures. Goal to create a formal collaborative working response plan to Idaho MMIWP.

Puyallup Tribe: Community Domestic Violence Advocacy Program, WA

Community served: Puyallup Tribe Location: WA
Program: Gender Based Violence Year: 2022

Offer emergency support to families searching for their relatives as well as emotional and peer support to families of MMIWP. Host monthly talking/craft circle for MMIWP families and survivors of violence. Aftercare expenses for missing loved ones who are returned home. Program will publish missing person posters and provide preventative information in educational presentations on the intersections of domestic violence, human trafficking, sexual assault, and the connection to MMIWP.

Domestic Violence & MMIW Awareness & Support, BC

Community served: Prophet River First Nations Location: BC
Program: Gender Based Violence Year: 2022

Currently Prophet River First Nation provides support to those who are experiencing Gender Based Violence. We hope to increase awareness and provide education and tools for prevention of GBV & MMIWP. We would like to provide group workshops and counseling sessions by professionals to create awareness and tools to deal with situations, provide grief and trauma counselling and host a MMIW awareness event. By increasing awareness and reducing the stigma around GBV & MMIW we hope to facilitate healing.

Innovations Human Trafficking Collaborative, WA

Community served: Urban Natives South Puget Sound Location: WA
Program: Gender Based Violence Year: 2022

Innovations Human Trafficking Collaborative’s (IHTC) mission is to engage first responders, Tribes, and other stakeholders in eliminating human trafficking through solution-based knowledge and trauma-informed strategies, and to empower survivors to heal and build self-sufficient, affirming lives. IHTC incorporates culturally appropriate and traditional healing practices into our work, which are fundamental to survivors’ achieving behavioral health. IHTC provides a lifeline of support for survivors, training for frontline workers and first responders, outreach and mobilization of counselors, housing, and youth specialists.

The Yarrow Project, WA

Community served: Seattle Urban Indigenous Community Location: WA
Program: Gender Based Violence Year: 2022

The Sweetgrass Advocacy Program’s two primary focuses are 1.) individual and family advocacy for indigenous survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault for families of MMIWP and 2.) create a intra community and interagency protocol for responding to cases of MMIWP in Western Washington.

WA Chapter Tlingit & Haida MMIWP Awareness & Outreach, WA

Community served: WA Chapter Tlingit & Haida Location: WA
Program: Gender Based Violence Year: 2022

Chapter plans to develop curriculum to teach and educate our people on root causes and how to prevent these horrific acts and ending violence against women and girls. Plan to develop culturally specific training, advocacy, programming and policy development in the areas of domestic violence, sexual violence, MMIW and girls, stalking and sex trafficking.

Takla Nation MMIWP, BC

Community served: Takla First Nation Location: BC
Program: Gender Based Violence Year: 2022

Organize campaign to educate youth (Grades 10-12) who need to leave remote village to finish schooling outside of community of Takla. Connect youth with providing regular visits to create a sense of belonging to be safer against crimes associated with MMIWP. Plan two community events in Takla to foster healing from trauma of losing Carmelita Braham to MMIWP.

MMIP Women, People & Families, WA

Community served: Urban Coast Salish PNW Tribes Location: WA
Program: Gender Based Violence Year: 2022

Missing and Murdered Indigenous People and Families (MMIP/F) is a survivor-led organization dedicated to bringing healing and justice to Indigenous communities by working alongside MMIP families. this woman-led movement helps find and advocate for missing relatives.

Carrying The Message, ID

Community served: Fort Hall Shoshone Bannock Location: ID
Program: Gender Based Violence Year: 2022

Grassroots ideological/holistic healing and awareness work in and around domestic violence, at-risk youth, and education. Create a safe space for release, sharing, closure and support. Educate on DV, bullying, suicide, intergenerational trauma and missing and murdered. Provide intervention in homes with the families who need assistance in locating their missing relatives.

Standing Together To Heal As One, WA

Community served: Urban natives Thurston, Pierce, Mason & Lewis Counties Location: WA
Program: Gender Based Violence Year: 2022

Host a day long healing ceremony to help individuals and families heal from trauma caused by MMIWP epidemic. Sweat lodge, feeding the spirits, counselors, and advisors on reporting missing relatives, DV issues, and PTSD.

Illustration by Jill Neumesiter (Pawnee) Orca Design Group