Community Building Grants

Our communities are stronger as we work together.

These grants promote community organizing, community building, and community celebration. They work to impart our values, our histories, and our knowledge to the next generation.

They recognize that problem prevention is key to long-term problem solving.

In past years grants have

• helped children learn their Native languages
• sent youth to summer heritage camps
• helped elders create a community garden of medicinal plants

and much more

2011 Grants

For the 2011 Community Building Grant cycle, 28 grantees, located in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana, received a total of $163,300 in support.

Funding for the following grantees was provided by:

• the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• Kalliopeia Foundation
• contributions from the 2010 Potlatch Fund Gala

7 Journeys Forward/ Communication 4 Communities
Union, WA: $1,500

Funding for the development of an interactive website that builds capacity and access for Native people and communities.

Alternative Solutions
Polson, MT: $3,000

Funds for operating program initiatives including creating Salish LAnguage Living Books, producing community wide theater production in Salish and delivering a youth symposium.

Burns Paiute Tribe
Burns, OR: $2,500

Funds for Culture Camp for children, elders, and other adults from the Burns Paiute Tribe.

Chief Seattle Club
Seattle, WA: $5,000

Funding for general operations.

Coeur D'Alene
Plummer, ID: $1,500

For the development of a minipark and playground.

Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation
Nespelem, WA: $5,000

Funding for an intensive intermediate Salish language training program for staff of the Inchellum Child Care Center and community members.

Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation
Pendleton, OR: $3,000

Funding to support Camp Miyahishma, a four day long youth culture camp.

Kalispel Tribe of Indians
Usk, WA: $4,000

Funding for a covered cargo trailer for the Kalispel Language Program outreach and educational activities.

Ke Kukui Foundation
Vancouver, WA: $3,500

Funding for the Ke Kukui Arts and Culture Center.

Makah Cultural and Research Center
Neah Bay, WA: $5,000

Funds to train a new grant writer.

Native American Rehabilitation Association of the Northwest
Portland, OR: $4,000

To support the Portland Indian Elders Support Group which continues to address the short term and emergent needs of urban American Indian and Alaskan Natibe Elders.

Natives of the One Wind Indigenous Alliance
Ashland, OR: $3,500

Funds to support the expansion of an alliance of indigenous peoples in Southern Oregon.

Nez Perce Tribal Youth Cultural Enrichment Academy
Lapwai, ID: $5,000

Funding for the five of the forty students of the Youth Cultural Enrichment Academy that employs forty youth during the summer that focuses on developing workforce skills, reinforcing Tribal traditions, and enhancing and protecting fisheries.

Nisqually Tribe
Olympia, WA : $3,000

Funding for afterschool youth programming for Native and community youth.

Northwest Indian College
Bellingham, WA: $2,500

Funds to support the Annual Native American Women and Girls, Men and Boys Conference.

Painted Sky
Portland, OR: $3,000

Funding for their new home, building space lease and operational costs.

Red Eagle Soaring
Seattle, WA: $5,000

Funding for the 2011 SIYAP performing arts camp for 30-40 urban Native youth ages 11-19.

Rocky Boy Native Arts & Crafts Co-op
Box Elder, MT: $4,000

Funds to support the 'Moccasin Trail' project, which teaches the lost art of processing deer hide.

Salish School of Spokane
Spokane, WA: $3,000

Funding for general support to continue to offer the highest quality of language immersion services to children and families in the city of Spokane.

Sho Ban News
Fort Hall, ID: $2,500

Funding to complete the video editing of the 140th Anniversary of the Fort Bridger Treaty Project.

Shoshone Bannock Tribe
Fort Hall, ID: $2,500

Funding for the Return of the Boise Valley People event.

The Confederated Tribes & Bands of the Yakama Nation
Toppenish, WA: $1,800

Funding for the marketing purposes and printing.

The Museum at Warm Springs
Warm Springs, OR: $5,000

Funds to enhance the museum's Annual Tribal Member Art exhibit by publishing an exhibit catalog.

The People's Center
Pablo, MT: $2,500

Funds to support the Native American Awareness Week allowing students to learn about and play Native games, make crafts, and taste fry bread and dry meat.

Tierra Madre Fund
Seattle, WA: $5,000

Funding for the Northwest Native Green Jobs Corps for Western Washington tribes in summer 2011.

Tlingit & Haida Washington Chapter
Seattle, WA: $2,000

Funding for the Southeast Alaska Native Culture Fair to be held September 10th and 11th 2011.

United Indians of All Tribes
Seattle, WA: $2,500

Funding for the continued tradition of the Annual SeaFair Powwow at Daybreak Star.

Wiconi International
Vancouver, WA: $2,500

Funding for the 7th Annual Mini Wiconi Wacipi "Living Waters Intertribal Traditional Powwow" July 30,2011.

Separately Funded Grants

Kalispel Tribe of Indians
Usk, WA: $20,000

Funding for the Tribal CASA Program.

The Confederated Tribes & Bands of the Yakama Nation
Toppenish, WA: $20,000

Funding for the Tribal CASA program.

Spokane Tribe of Indians
Wellpinit, WA: $20,000

Funding for the Tribal CASA program.

The Confederated Tribes & Bands of the Yakama Nation
Toppenish, WA: $5,000

Funding to support fire relief.

Lower Elwha S'Klallam Tribe
Port Angeles, WA: $5,000

Funding to support youth activities.