Grants to Celebrate Native American Heritage Month-2024

Native American Heritage Month is reserved for November. According to Ala.org, The month was officially designated by President George H.W. Bush in 1990 as National American Indian Heritage Month. The title has since been changed to Native American Heritage Month. It’s fitting, with the Thanksgiving holiday, that we celebrate our indigenous people in November. Native American Heritage Month celebrates and honors the culture and history of Native American peoples. This includes Alaska, Hawaii and Island populations.

According to The Indigenous World 2024, the Indigenous population in the US is estimated at between 3.1 and 8.7 million. Approximately 20% live in American Indian areas or Alaska Native villages. Sadly, the Native American population suffers from a higher than average poverty rate (including childhood poverty). However, there is good news. There is funding out there to help support Native American peoples and their communities. For example, there is funding available for research, safety, environmental causes, and education, just to name a few.

GrantWatch is celebrating Native American Heritage with a carefully assembled list of grant funding. This is a grant search database where you can search for grants by location, category, keywords and organizational structure. There are different categories that have funding for Native American oriented programs. For example, BIPOC, Community Services, Education, and Quality of Life. Within the Native American communities there are a variety of needs to serve. GrantWatch has grants that can match these needs.

Grants to Celebrate Native American Heritage

1. Cooperative agreements to tribes, tribal organizations, and tribal universities for projects to prevent the spread of animal diseases
2. Opportunities to Tribes, Tribal organizations, and Tribal energy development organizations to plan and develop clean energy projects
3. In addition, there are grants to states, territories, nonprofit organizations, government agencies, tribes, and IHEs to employ volunteer staff to carry out a broad range of community services.
4. Funding is available to Tribes to improve road safety in Native American communities.
5. Grants to territories nonprofit organizations, IHEs, government agencies, and Tribal governments for the preservation of humanities materials. 
6. There are also grants for nonprofit organizations, government agencies, businesses, IHEs and Tribes to strengthen the capabilities of maternal and child health programs.
7. Grants of up to $25,000 and in-kind support to USA Native Indigenous youth filmmakers for the production of short films.
8. Grants to territories government agencies, nonprofit and faith-based organizations, for-profits, and tribes for research addressing cancer and climate change.
9. Finally, there are grants to native entities, including Native Hawaiian organizations, Tribes, and Alaska entities for programs and projects to foster digital equity among Native populations.
10. Grants to tribes to improve library services in Native communities. Funding supports digital services, educational programs, and the preservation and revitalization of Native American cultures and languages.

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