The Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples supports Native American led organizations through four grant programs: Community Vitality, the Flicker Fund, Thriving Women, and Land, Water, and Climate.
Applications for $500 – $50,000 are due by December 2, 2024 at 11:59 PM PT.
Eligibility
Seventh Generation grants are open to federally recognized Tribal Nations and 501(c)3 nonprofit organizations who:
- Have 80% or more Indigenous Peoples leadership at the Board of Directors or other decision-making entity, an Indigenous Executive Director or Project leaders, and Indigenous Peoples engaged throughout all aspects of the organization.
- Are grounded in and led by the Indigenous Peoples who are most impacted by the project.
- Nurture and center the culture, language, traditional knowledge systems, and healthy lifeways of the Indigenous Peoples involved in the project.
Community Vitality
Community Vitality projects involve cultural revitalization, knowledge sharing, cultural transmission, and intergenerational kinships. Pathways for culturally grounded practices and social justice include:
- Traditional wisdom and cultural knowledge
- Traditional foodways
- Community-based healing
- Language revitalization and creative expression
Flicker Fund
The Flicker Fund responds to the critical needs of Indigenous communities vulnerable to the impacts of crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change. Pathways for ensuring Native Peoples thrive include:
- Basic and urgent health
- Historic and cultural teachings
- Traditional healing practices and remedies
Thriving Women
Thriving Women supports projects to prevent and address gender oppression, promote matrilineal centered traditional health and coming-of-age ceremonies, and develop the next generation of leaders. Projects focused on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Spirit (MMIWG2S) are also encouraged.
Pathways for gender and social justice include:
- Birthkeeping, motherhood, and kinship
- Honoring the rights of Mother Earth
- Reclaiming a world without violence against women, girls, and two-spirits
- Women and girls’ cultural vitality and leadership
Land, Water, and Climate
Land, Water, and Climate grants support traditional land and water stewardship, advance the right of Free, Prior and Informed Consent, protect sacred spaces, and promote climate change adaptation. Pathways to ecological justice include:
- Climate action for future generations
- Land back – Water back
- Renewable energies
- Sacred places and sacred relationships
