First Nations Receives Grant to Bolster Strategies to Educate, Advocate, and Capitalize Funding from The Schmidt Family Foundation/The 11th Hour Project to help advance Native communities LONGMONT, Colo. (February 10, 2021) – First Nations Development Institute (First Nations) is honored to announce the receipt of funding from The Schmidt Family Foundation’s The 11th...
LONGMONT, Colo. (May 20, 2021) – First Nations Development Institute (First Nations) is honored to announce the receipt of a $300,000 grant from the May & Stanley Smith Charitable Trust. The grant will be used over a two-year period to support the long-term sustainability and resiliency of Native American nonprofits, organizations, and tribes that have been...
Tribes in Western States: Apply by June 24, 2021 LONGMONT, Colo. (June 14, 2021) – First Nations Development Institute (First Nations) has announced that pandemic relief and response support is being provided through the new Western COVID-19 Response Grant. Applications are now being accepted electronically from Native American applicants who are or who serve adults...
At the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, interns from Cal State LA are learning key skills studying the origins of life. What does wastewater management in Los Angeles have to do with the search for life on Mars? Eduardo Martinez certainly didn’t make the connection when he was pursuing a master’s in civil engineering. Not at first. Then his professor pointed him...
March 31, 2020 Due to the COVID-19 outbreak in Teaneck the Foundation offices are currently closed. Unfortunately this means the 2020 grant notifications will be put on indefinite hold. We will notify you when we are able to restart our 2020 grant cycle and begin our 2021 cycle. Thank you for understanding our desire to protect the health and safety of our employees...
May 12, 2020 We’re proud to announce the Puffin Advisory Board’s, Coronavirus Community Response Grant Program. Starting in April, our Advisory Board members identified programs across the country doing meaningful work to meet the many urgent needs that have emerged during the pandemic. The initiatives we’ve been able to support are engaged in direct, local...
May 14, 2020 Dear Applicants,It is with a heavy heart that we have made the decision to close our 2020 Artist Grant Cycle. While we were able to process a large number of applications earlier in the year, the COVID-19 pandemic has meant we will be unable to properly review the remaining proposals. If you had not heard from us previously about your application, this...
In August 2022, Running Strong for American Indian Youth® announced a new, exciting expansion of our Dreamstarter® program –Dreamstarter Incubator – designed to continue supporting the dreams of Native communities for the long term after their original Dreamstarter projects have concluded. Our first Dreamstarter Incubator is Dreamstarter entrepreneur Josh Smith from...
Ruby Central is thrilled to announce that we have been awarded a two part grant from Alpha-Omega. The $250,000 grant will support critical open source projects on RubyGems.org, RubyGems and Bundler. Alpha-Omega is an OpenSSF associated project of the OpenSSF, established in February 2022, funded by Microsoft, Google, and Amazon, and with a mission to protect society...