About: The Village of Walpi believes in traditional and contemporary values that promotes the welfare, growth, and sustenance of its people, while protecting and preserving the cultural and natural environment.” The mission will be carried out with the spirit of Sumi’nangwa, Nami’nangwa, and Kyapsti. To inspire, motivate and transform desires into action. [...]
Healing Mountain Coalition
Lara G2025-07-23T21:32:53+00:00About: The Healing Mountain Coalition is a group of White Mountain Apache community members that bring experience and insight from a variety of backgrounds including but not limited to; land restoration, regenerative farming, regenerative medicine, traditional hunting, watershed management, ethnobotany, Apache language, culture and history. Years Supported: 2025 Grant Type: [...]
C4 Ever Green
Lara G2025-07-23T21:33:05+00:00About: In 2022, C 4Ever Green was created as a 501(c)3 at the encouragement of community members. The organization addresses waste-burning and illegal dumping, protecting endangered Indigenous plants harvested for food, ceremony, and livestock, transitioning to renewable energy, and protecting natural resources. In 2019, local community members, Norman Lameman and Meridith Benally [...]
Albuquerque Public Schools
Lara G2025-07-23T21:36:49+00:00About: Albuquerque Public Schools develops enhanced and supportive Indigenous educational opportunities for American Indian/Alaska Native students by increasing knowledge of Native values through teaching language and cultural differences. We believe American Indian/Alaska Native students will succeed with appropriate support systems and effective teaching using culturally relevant methods and strategies. Years [...]
Nihikeya
Lara G2025-07-23T21:36:41+00:00About: Nihikeya is a grassroot Diné organization with the mission to restore regenerative systems (ecological, social, economic, cultural) guided by Dine teachings and innovative solutions that build long-term, locally based economic systems that place value not only on profits but also on protecting and preserving lands, waters, air, culture, and future generations. [...]
Apache Language Consortium
Lara G2025-07-23T21:33:21+00:00About: The Apache Language Consortium (ALC) was founded in 2010 by a group of dedicated linguists, educators, and community leaders, all deeply concerned about the rapid decline in fluency among speakers of various Apache languages. Understanding that language is integral to cultural identity and preservation, we united with a singular, common goal: [...]
Kwiyagat Community Academy
Lara G2025-07-23T21:39:58+00:00About: Kwiyagat Community Academy opened in August 2021 after two years of significant Ute Mountain Ute community input with 27 students in grades K-1 in a small one-room modular in Towaoc, Colorado on the Ute Mountain Ute reservation as the first public charter school on Indian reservation in Colorado. KCA has four [...]
Four Corners Rising
Lara G2025-07-23T21:39:52+00:00About: Four Corners Rising began as a project of University of Colorado at Boulder, in recognition of the need of an NGO organization to support Navajo community leadership in Northwestern New Mexico. The founding members of the Board were convened as advisors to that project. It quickly became clear that (1) the [...]
Navajo Way Inc (501c3)
admin2025-07-23T21:34:07+00:00About: Navajo Way, Inc. is the only Native American Charter member of the United Way Worldwide. Established in 1982 to empower and support human care organizations that deliver services to improve the lives of the Navajo Nation and neighboring communities. The concept behind the Navajo Way derived from the traditional concept of [...]
Ke’yah Advanced Manufacturing Alliance (501c3)
admin2025-07-23T21:39:47+00:00About: Ke’yah Advanced Rural Manufacturing Alliance (KARMA) is a non-profit corporation and is organized exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes working to create economic opportunity in Native communities through workforce development and entrepreneurship in Advanced Manufacturing and Technology. Ke’yah’s origin began with Kellogg Foundation funding to collaborate with industry, academia, and [...]