The Northland Foundation is offering a special grant opportunity, through its Maada’ookiing grant program, supporting grassroots activities to raise awareness, urge change, and promote healing around Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relations.
Donor Name: Northland Foundation
State: Minnesota
County: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/14/2022
Size of the Grant: up to $2,500
Grant Duration: 1 year
Details:
Indigenous women and girls face an outsized risk of sexual assault, violence, and murder in Minnesota and nationally. Indigenous females represent 1 percent of the State’s population, but 15 percent of missing person cases and 9 percent of female homicides.
These grants will support locally driven change, while highlighting the important, ongoing work in the community that centers protecting indigenous women, girls, and relatives.
Funding Information
- Grants of up to $2,500 each will support grassroots activities that align with and advance the recommendations set forth by the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Task Force report to the Minnesota Legislature.
- Project periods can be up to one year.
Eligibility Criteria
- To be able to apply, you must:
- Be an individual or small group of citizens, descendants, or have kinship ties or affiliations to Indigenous communities for activities with the geographic service area. In recognition of Indigenous identity and community identity, eligibility is defined to be inclusive of the broad relationships of belonging.
- Carry out the project within the following area(s):
- Bois Forte Band of Chippewa
- Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
- Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe (District 1)
- Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe (District II)
- Minnesota Counties of Aitkin, Carlton, Cook, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake and/or St. Louis.
For more information, visit Northland Foundation.