2008 Current ANA Grants (by ACF Region)
ACF Region I
| ACF Region: I |
State: Maine |
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| Grantee Name: |
Penobscot Indian Nation Enterprises |
| Project Title: |
Penobscot Indian Nation
Enterprises (PINE) Leadership Apprentices Project |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2007 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$359,682 |
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|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
to provide a range of business leadership learning opportunities which
include: structured self-assessments and career planning protocols, specially
tailored workshops, on-the-job training, mentoring, peer support network, a
dedicated “lessons learned” database specific to PINE businesses, and
supervised real-world problem solving. |
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| ACF Region: I |
State: Massachussetts |
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|
| Grantee Name: |
Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) |
| Project Title: |
The
Aquinnah
Wampanoag
Land Use Master Plan
Update |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2010 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$114,339 |
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|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
to expand tribal capacity to govern and manage its ancestral homelands and
resources for the benefit of future generations. The development of a Land Use Master Plan
will provide the tribe with a shared vision on how to best manage the
resources it has and may come to acquire. Using data analysis, zoning and strategic planning, the Wampanoag
Tribe will define current and future land use needs. |
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ACF Region II
| ACF Region: II |
State: New York |
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|
| Grantee Name: |
Native American Community Services of Erie &
Niagara Counties, Inc. |
| Project Title: |
The Native Economic Self-Sufficiency
Training (NEST) Project |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2011 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$102,012 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to design an economic self-sufficiency plan. The NEST project will improve economic
stability of urban Native community members by focusing on decreasing debt
levels while increasing savings. Through a series of training workshops, attendees will learn to
identify and change monetary spending. |
| ACF Region: II |
State: New York |
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|
| Grantee Name: |
Friends of the Akwesasne Freedom School, Inc. |
| Project Title: |
Orihwakaionhneha “In the
Manner of the
Old Ways
Project” |
| Program Area: |
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2011 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$125,500 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project that will develop culture and science curriculums in the
Kanien’keha:ka language for grades 7-10. The project incorporates building
language and cultural skills of the upperclassmen by involving them in
teaching the Kanien’keha:ka curriculum to younger students. |
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ACF Region III
| ACF Region: III |
State: District of Columbia |
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|
| Grantee Name: |
National Congress of American Indians Fund |
| Project Title: |
National Congress of
American
Indians
Policy
Research
Center |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2006 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$300,000 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to increase the capacity of NCAIF to provide research on emerging
social issues identified as priorities by Tribal leaders and facilitate
proactive public policy development at the Tribal community and national
levels. This project will focus on two inter-related sub-projects: the
development and facilitation of social development “communities of practice”
and the development of academic and applied research curriculum for tribal
social services practitioners, Native college/graduate students in social
development-related disciplines, and Native and non-Native scholars working
on social development issues in tribal communities. |
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| ACF Region: III |
State: Maryland |
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|
| Grantee Name: |
Accohannock Indian Tribe, Inc. |
| Project Title: |
Bending
Water
Park,
an Authentic
Living
Village |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2010 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$299,531 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
to create and implement an authentic living village to preserve and educate
tribal families and the public on the history, traditions, and culture of the
Tribe while providing economic opportunities for Tribe members that are
self-sustaining. This project will
develop the infrastructure for the Tribe to open an authentic living
Indian
Village
titled
Bending
Water
Park. |
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| ACF Region: III |
State: Virginia |
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|
| Grantee Name: |
High Plains Indians, fbo Sappony |
| Project Title: |
The Sappony Trading
Path-Site Design and Planning |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$225,000 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a one year project
to fund the second phase of the Sappony Trading Path Project. The second phase includes the development
of detailed plans for the trail destination that will include five historic
and community sites. |
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ACF Region: IV
| ACF Region: IV |
State: North Carolina |
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|
| Grantee Name: |
Coharie Intra-Tribal Council, Inc. |
| Project Title: |
The Coharie Health Access,
Improvement and Awareness Project |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2010 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$131,157 |
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|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
to improve the overall health conditions and quality of life for the members
of the Coharie Tribe and increase access to health care. The main goal of this project is to
increase the awareness and knowledge of health care issues and resources
among members of the tribe. The
objective is to provide home medical visits for tribal families in order to
reduce emergency room visits and improve overall community health. |
| ACF Region: IV |
State: North Carolina |
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|
| Grantee Name: |
Cumberland
County Association for Indian People Inc |
| Project Title: |
East
Star
Family
Center Program Design |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$227,002 |
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|
| Project Summary: |
This is a one year project
designed to create a community-based approach to developing and implementing
the programs necessary to make the
East
Star
Family
Center fully
operational. |
| ACF Region: IV |
State: North Carolina |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Hawkeye Indian Cultural Center, Inc. |
| Project Title: |
Hawkeye Professional
Development and Self-Sufficiency Project |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2006 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$157,839 |
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|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to provide a career ladder for the childcare center staff to receive
an early childhood professional degree and to make the program improvements
necessary to obtain a 4-Star Rating License which will result in higher
revenue and self-sustainability. |
| ACF Region: IV |
State: North Carolina |
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|
| Grantee Name: |
Lumbee Nation Tribal Programs |
| Project Title: |
The Economic Development
for the Lumbee Tribe |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$110,777 |
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|
| Project Summary: |
This is a one year project
to create a five year strategic plan that addresses economic growth and
stimulates the local economy by employing tribal members. This project will
establish tribally owned small businesses creating sustainable jobs in order
to improve tribal economic and social conditions. |
| ACF Region: IV |
State: North Carolina |
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|
| Grantee Name: |
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians |
| Project Title: |
Tribal Integrated GIS for
Environmental Management and Compliance |
| Program Area: |
Environmental Regulatory Enhancement |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$127,500 |
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|
| Project Summary: |
This is a one year project
to develop an Integrated Geographic Information System (IGIS) that will
streamline processes for environmental management of Tribal Lands. This integrated system will promote more
efficient inter-departmental work and will allow the environmental resources
department to quickly process forms and requests that must be submitted to
federal agencies. |
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ACF Region V
| ACF Region: V |
State: Indiana |
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|
| Grantee Name: |
Lakota Language Consortium |
| Project Title: |
Lakota Language Level 3 and
Level 4 Textbook Project |
| Program Area: |
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2010 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$149,998 |
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|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
to develop and produce the Lakota Level 3 and Level 4 textbooks and test
teachers in their use. The textbooks
are designed to serve as a transition from novice-level instruction in the
language to beginning intermediate-level instruction. The textbooks will be distributed to 16
participating schools on the Pine Ridge Reservation. |
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| ACF Region: V |
State: Michigan |
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|
| Grantee Name: |
Hannahville Indian Community |
| Project Title: |
The Youth Employment
Development Project |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$85,985 |
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|
| Project Summary: |
This is a one year project
for training youth transitioning into adults with skills, abilities and
motivation to become productive and sustainable employees. The Hannahville Indian Community project
will develop five training tracks, specific to different work sites, that
will help local youth obtain necessary employment skills. After completing training programs,
Hannahville Indian Community youth will then mentor local elementary students
to sustain project goals. |
| ACF Region: V |
State: Michigan |
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|
| Grantee Name: |
Keweenaw
Bay Indian Community |
| Project Title: |
A Land Use Management Plan
for the
Keweenaw
Bay Indian Community |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2010 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$196,899 |
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|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
that will develop a Land Use Management Plan for the Keweenaw Bay Indian
Community. |
| ACF Region: V |
State: Michigan |
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|
| Grantee Name: |
American Indian Health,
Detroit |
| Project Title: |
?G?daa minobimaadzimi (we
should live well together) Culturally Healthy Families Project |
| Program Area: |
Native American Healthy Marriage Initiative |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$150,000 |
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|
| Project Summary: |
This is a one year project
to develop a community plan for implementing a healthy marriage and positive
co-parenting initiative and develop a customized educational curriculum
through a healthy marriage/positive co-parenting initiative. |
| ACF Region: V |
State: Michigan |
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|
| Grantee Name: |
Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa & Chippewa Indians |
| Project Title: |
GTB Healthy Relationship
Project |
| Program Area: |
Native American Healthy Marriage Initiative |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2006 - 9/29/2011 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$81,013 |
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|
| Project Summary: |
This is a five year project
to provide healthy marriage and relationship education workshops, retreats,
and sessions to 370 youth and adults. Staff will be trained to present
workshops on PAIRS Jumpstart, PAIRS - Passage to Intimacy, PEERS, PAIRS -
Passion Weekend, PAIRS - If You Really Loved Me, PAIRS - Relationship Roadmap
and PAIRS - Relationship Mastery. |
| ACF Region: V |
State: Michigan |
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|
| Grantee Name: |
Huron Potawatomi, Inc. |
| Project Title: |
Healthy Potawatomi Families |
| Program Area: |
Native American Healthy Marriage Initiative |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2011 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$177,322 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to provide relationship skills to a minimum of 40 non-married and
married couples and parenting skills to a minimum of 40 sets of parents in a
7 county service area. |
| ACF Region: V |
State: Michigan |
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|
| Grantee Name: |
Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians |
| Project Title: |
Pokagon Healthy Families
Planning Project |
| Program Area: |
Native American Healthy Marriage Initiative |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$93,363 |
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|
| Project Summary: |
This is a one year project
to conduct consultation with the Tribal Council and key committees of the
Pokagon Tribe on factors that de-stabilize families, characteristics of
at-risk children and families, and components of a successfully program to
help families and youth who are at-risk; conduct an assessment of the Pokagon
community and Tribal programs to determine how many families are at-risk; and
develop a plan to implement a Pokagon healthy youth and families outreach
program. |
| ACF Region: V |
State: Michigan |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Hannahville Indian Community |
| Project Title: |
Ensuring the Survival of
the Potawatomi Language-Digital Connections Language Project |
| Program Area: |
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2006 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$97,580 |
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|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to bridge the technology gap in language learning models by
strengthening the Tribe's digital connections to its current language
curriculum. |
| ACF Region: V |
State: Michigan |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Keweenaw
Bay Indian Community |
| Project Title: |
The
Keweenaw
Bay
Indian Community Ojibwemowin Master/Apprentice Project |
| Program Area: |
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2011 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$200,000 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project initiate an inter-generational Master/Apprentice Program. The six Apprentices will learn from one
Master fluent speaker, achieve fluency level 5 and become certified to teach
the language. The Apprentices will
also teach language classes assister by an elder. |
| ACF Region: V |
State: Michigan |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians |
| Project Title: |
Ggitikemen Ode Zheshmowen -
“We Are Growing Our Language” |
| Program Area: |
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2007 - 9/29/2010 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$200,000 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to build sentence-making and conversational skills through activities
centered on hearing and experiencing the language in real-time context. The project is designed to develop a new
generation of conversational speakers. |
| ACF Region: V |
State: Michigan |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of
Michigan |
| Project Title: |
Gda-Saswin-nah Ojibwe Language Training and Development
Project |
| Program Area: |
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2007 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$135,263 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
to increase the number of Ojibwe fluent speakers through the development of a
language nest (Gda-Saswin-nah) at the Tribe’s elementary school. The nest will include language instruction,
Ojibwe translation of core classroom curriculum, and parent and community
activities. |
| ACF Region: V |
State: Michigan |
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|
| Grantee Name: |
Burt
Lake
Band of Ottawa & Chippewa Indians, Inc |
| Project Title: |
Ottawa Bmaadiziwin – The
Ottawa Way of Sustainable Life: Making
use of Traditional and Scientific Ecological Knowledge in Tribal
Environmental Protection Training. |
| Program Area: |
Environmental Regulatory Enhancement |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2007 - 9/29/2010 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$103,283 |
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|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
to create and implement a nine-session training program focused on both
traditional and scientific knowledge for better natural resource
management. After the training has
concluded, participants including Tribal members and environment staff will
be selected for the newly formed Tribal Environmental Protection Advisory
Board. This Board will represent the
Tribe in land and resource management. |
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| ACF Region: V |
State: Minnesota |
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|
| Grantee Name: |
American Indian Economic Development |
| Project Title: |
Financial Literacy
Project: Re-configuring AIEDF’s
American Indian Small Business Development Technical Assistance
Model/Services and “Indianpreneur” Training Course |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$294,628 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a one year project
to complete a comprehensive revision of the “Indian-preneur” training
course. AIFDF will infuse additional
financial literacy concepts throughout the 108 page Manual and the
accompanying Power Point Presentation and pilot this in three geographic
areas. This project will train twenty-eight
Indian-preneurs in the pilot of the revised Indian-preneur training
course. This will increase their
financial literacy competencies as evidenced by a pre and post financial
literacy assessment. |
| ACF Region: V |
State: Minnesota |
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|
| Grantee Name: |
Bois Forte Reservation Tribal Council |
| Project Title: |
Bois Forte Electronic
Health Record Implementation Project |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2007 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$131,068 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
to implement an electronic Health Information Technology Project at its
Nett
Lake
and Lake Vermilion Medical and Dental Tribal Health Clinics. The Research and
Planning that have been conducted will aid in the implementation of the
Electronic Health Record systems. |
| ACF Region: V |
State: Minnesota |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Fond du Lac Band of
Lake Superior Chippewa |
| Project Title: |
The Fond du Lac Energy
Efficiency and Strategic Planning project |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2010 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$140,055 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
to create an energy management plan and also to create a strategic plan for
the reservation. This Energy
Efficiency project is in response to rising energy costs and will make public
facilities and local residents more energy efficient and create sustainable
energy production. The
Fond du Lac Band of
Lake Superior
Chippewa community will also develop a strategic plan for the reservation
which includes short and long term goals for decisions involving capital and
membership. |
| ACF Region: V |
State: Minnesota |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Migizi Communications, Inc. |
| Project Title: |
American Indian Cultural
and Economic Corridor Development Project |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2011 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$301,126 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to develop a master plan to implement an American Indian Cultural and
Economic Corridor in the Phillips area of the Twin Cities. This project will provide training to 150
youth on media, technology, and entrepreneurial training; and develop 3
enterprise opportunities for American Indian youth and adults. This project will increase the Minneapolis
American Indian community’s capacity to seize 21st century entrepreneurial
opportunities. |
| ACF Region: V |
State: Minnesota |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Minneapolis
American
Indian
Center |
| Project Title: |
Phase III Marketing &
Sales of QUICWA System |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2007 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$202,500 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
to launch the marketing campaign of the QUICWA system and internet based
Indian Child Welfare Case Management and Compliance monitoring system. Five systems will be sold. |
| ACF Region: V |
State: Minnesota |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Red
Lake
Band of Chippewa
Indians |
| Project Title: |
Red
Lake
Path
of Life Project |
| Program Area: |
Healthy Marriage |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2006 - 9/29/2011 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$197,453 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a five year project
to establish a network of mentor couples who will be role models to at-risk
couples participating in marriage and pre-marriage educational courses. It
will also develop an educational course specific to
Red
Lake
culture that has been modified from existing marriage curricula. |
| ACF Region: V |
State: Minnesota |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Bois Forte Band of Chippewa Indians |
| Project Title: |
Anishinaabeg Language
Revitalization and Preservation Plan |
| Program Area: |
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$98,190 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a one year project
that will determine the status of the Anishinaabeg language by administering
and then analyzing results from the language assessments of members of the
Bois Forte Band of Chippewa living on or near the Bois Forte Indian
Reservation. |
| ACF Region: V |
State: Minnesota |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Fond du
Lac Reservation Business Committee |
| Project Title: |
Anishinabemowin Language
Immersion Canoe/
Jii-man
Building Project (Jii-Man Project) |
| Program Area: |
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2011 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$60,765 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
language preservation project that will develop and administer an annual
language immersion program where participants are involved in intensive canoe
building sessions that are conducted entirely in the Ojibwe language. |
| ACF Region: V |
State: Minnesota |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Leech
Lake
Band of Ojibwe |
| Project Title: |
Niigaane Ojibwemowin
Immersion Project |
| Program Area: |
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2011 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$149,997 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to develop, pilot and revised as necessary methods for lesson
delivery with K-6 grades in operation. The project will provide intensive in-service development for teachers
and train them to assist in the content delivery methods relevant to Ojibwe
students in an immersion setting. This
project will also develop local expertise in matters of curriculum methods
and content delivery and language training in order to provide training to
future teachers and Elder participants. Teachers will reach an advanced level of Ojibwemowin proficiency to
ensure a high level of language transmission to the students in grades K-6 at
Niigaane. |
| ACF Region: V |
State: Minnesota |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Fond du Lac Band of
Lake Superior Chippewa |
| Project Title: |
Fond du Lac THPO TEPA Project |
| Program Area: |
Environmental Regulatory Enhancement |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2010 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$53,596 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
to enhance the self-governance capabilities of the
Fond
du Lac Band of
Lake Superior
Chippewa by establishing a Tribal Historic Preservation Office (THPO) and
enacting a Tribal Environmental Policy Act (TEPA). |
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| ACF Region: V |
State: Ohio |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
American
Indian
Education
Center |
| Project Title: |
Strong and Stable Native
Youth |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2006 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$243,742 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to implement a culturally-tailored version of the ‘Strengthening
Families’ program curriculum which will provide intensive community outreach,
case management and referral services for families. The project will also
establish a family-focused talking circle and a series of cultural classes
such as beading, singing, drumming, and storytelling. |
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| ACF Region: V |
State: Wisconsin |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Great Lakes Indian
Fish and Wildlife Commission |
| Project Title: |
GLIFWC’s
AMA
Ceded
Territory (Wild Rice
Program) |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2007 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$180,997 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
to increase the number of tribal members harvesting wild rice from ceded
territory waters and ensure the continuation of cultural traditions among
tribal youth. This project will expand
wild rice processing capacity to support community food production. |
| ACF Region: V |
State: Wisconsin |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Lac Courte Oreilles Band of
Lake
Superior Chippewa Indians |
| Project Title: |
The “Greening” of the LCO
Development Corporation |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$191,336 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a one year project
that aims to build the capacity of LCO Development to become the most
successful green construction company with in the Great Lakes region of
Wisconsin,
Minnesota,
and
Michigan. |
| ACF Region: V |
State: Wisconsin |
| Grantee Name: |
Mashkisibi Boys and Girls Club |
| Project Title: |
The Educational Excellence |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2010 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$111,817 |
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|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
that focuses on reinforcing the importance of the commitment to school and
academic success. Utilizing elders,
teachers, parents, community advisors and community partners, this project will
develop a high yield learning curriculum. The subject focus areas are discussions with knowledgeable adults,
leisure reading, writing activities, homework help and study, community
service, and games that sharpen cognitive skills. Five participating teen members will also
receive training as Peer Leaders to help facilitation of learning activities. |
| ACF Region: V |
State: Wisconsin |
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|
| Grantee Name: |
Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council |
| Project Title: |
Honoring Our Families |
| Program Area: |
Native American Healthy Marriage Initiative |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2006 - 9/29/2011 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$183,886 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a five year project
to establish focus groups at each of the 7 Tribal sites within the Great
Lakes Inter-Tribal Council to provide guidance in curricula development,
family recruitment and case management processes. An Interdisciplinary Family
Case Management Team (IFCM) will be developed at each Tribal site to help
strengthen healthy marriages and relationships of up to 10 families per site
per year. The IFCMs will provide relationship and healthy marriage
educational workshops and community events. |
| ACF Region: V |
State: Wisconsin |
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|
| Grantee Name: |
College of
Menominee Nation |
| Project Title: |
Building Teacher Capacity
for Programming Menominee Language |
| Program Area: |
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2007 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$154,510 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
to establish vital collaborative partnerships between Menominee learning
agencies. The partnerships will
provide assistant teachers with the necessary skills to teach the language
and integrate its use across curriculums. |
| ACF Region: V |
State: Wisconsin |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Great Lakes Indian
Fish and Wildlife Commission |
| Project Title: |
Anishinaabe Inaadiziwin –
Anishinaabe Way
of Life |
| Program Area: |
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2010 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$150,000 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
to develop materials to be used for teaching the Anishinaabe language that is
specific to hunting, fishing and gathering. The materials will be specifically related to traditional subsistence
gathering and harvesting activities and include words and phrases that are
specific to those activities. The
produced materials will be directed to middle school students and
higher. This project will promote
cultural awareness by infusing Anishinaabe values, tradition and language
into all of its endeavors. |
| ACF Region: V |
State: Wisconsin |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Oneida Tribe of Indians of
Wisconsin |
| Project Title: |
On^yote?a.ka (People of
Standing Stone) Language Curriculum |
| Program Area: |
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2010 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$150,000 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
to complete four levels of conversational units of curriculum. The project will also establish an Oneida
Language Committee to work together to make the curriculum functional and
user friendly with accompanying audio. |
| ACF Region: V |
State: Wisconsin |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
St. Croix Chippewa Indians of
Wisconsin |
| Project Title: |
The
St
Croix Plan for Ojibwemowin Preservation and Maintenance |
| Program Area: |
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$127,000 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a one year project
to create a design for an immersion language nest. The project will also create multi-media
curriculum for students, parents and language instructors. |
| ACF Region: V |
State: Wisconsin |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Waadookodaading, Inc. |
| Project Title: |
Immersion
Charter
School – Surviving Through Grade 5 |
| Program Area: |
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2011 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$245,100 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to provide at least 500 hours of Native language instruction to at
least 15 students. This project will
increase the Ojibwe proficiency levels by providing 4th & 5th grade
classes and develop a comprehensive curriculum ensuring a cohesive program
Ojibwe language and content studies to Grade 5. This project will provide immersion
training for teachers and expand parent and community involvement. Waadookodaading will have a curriculum that
will ensure students achieve at grade level in dual languages. |
| ACF Region: V |
State: Wisconsin |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Great Lakes Indian
Fish and Wildlife Commission |
| Project Title: |
GLIFWC’s Ceded Territory
Environmental Regulatory 404 Permit Project |
| Program Area: |
Environmental Regulatory Enhancement |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2011 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$78,197 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
GLIFWC’s Ceded Territory
Environmental Regulatory 404 Permit Project |
| ACF Region: V |
State: Wisconsin |
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|
| Grantee Name: |
Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
Indians |
| Project Title: |
Lac du Flambeau Water
Regulatory Enhancement Project |
| Program Area: |
Environmental Regulatory Enhancement |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2007 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$64,521 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
to revise regulatory codes on water quality standards, shore land
development, and wellhead protection with input from Tribal public, technical
and legal advisors. Staff will receive
training on regulatory enforcement. Tribal staff affiliated with construction projects and contractors
will receive training to reduce soil erosion during construction. |
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ACF Region VI
| ACF Region: VI |
State: New Mexico |
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|
| Grantee Name: |
National Indian council on Aging, Inc. |
| Project Title: |
Helping Grandparents Raise
Grandchildren across Indian Country |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2010 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$241,579 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
designed to assist Tribal communities across Indian country in mitigating
challenges faced by grandparents raising grandchildren. |
| ACF Region: VI |
State: New Mexico |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Native American Pueblo Parent Resources, Inc. |
| Project Title: |
“First Steps” A Culturally
Relevant and Appropriate Model for Primary Prevention of Child Abuse/neglect |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2006 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$255,990 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to develop a culturally appropriate comprehensive model for the
prevention of child abuse/neglect within the communities served. |
| ACF Region: VI |
State: New Mexico |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Cornerstone Ministries, Inc. |
| Project Title: |
Strong Families, Strong
Future Project |
| Program Area: |
Native American Healthy Marriage Initiative |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2011 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$292,925 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to implement culturally appropriate marriage/relationship education
programming for 375 adults and this project will also increase the
community’s awareness of the value of healthy marriages and families by
conducting a Tribal Leadership Summit with 150 individuals and training 45
youth workers to conduct healthy relationship education. |
| ACF Region: VI |
State: New Mexico |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Native Pride |
| Project Title: |
The
Good Road of Life: Responsible
Fatherhood |
| Program Area: |
Native American Healthy Marriage Initiative |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$150,000 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a one year project
to develop a culturally competent Fatherhood curriculum titled “The Good Road
of Life: Responsible Fatherhood”. |
| ACF Region: VI |
State: New Mexico |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Shiprock Home for Women and Children |
| Project Title: |
Navajo Healthy Marriage
Opportunities Project |
| Program Area: |
Native American Healthy Marriage Initiative |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2006 - 9/29/2011 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$200,000 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a five year project
to provide marriage enrichment activities in the form of PREP training, couple
mentoring, and marriage retreats; parenting activities utilizing the ‘Family
Spirit Program’ curriculum; and fatherhood activities using the ‘Dads and
Donuts’ program. |
| ACF Region: VI |
State: New Mexico |
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|
| Grantee Name: |
Pueblo of Isleta |
| Project Title: |
Developing a Department of
Language and Cultural Preservation |
| Program Area: |
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2010 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$150,000 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
to develop language education materials. The project will also provide workshop and conference opportunities to
teachers and elders interested in becoming certified language instructors. |
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| ACF Region: VI |
State: Oklahoma |
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|
| Grantee Name: |
Association of American Indian Physician, Inc. |
| Project Title: |
Family Wellness and Youth
Distress Phase II |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2007 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$230,029 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
to create the foundation for a tribal court model. This ensures the support of family oriented
services that promote the health, safety and well being of the local
community, while retaining cultural identity. |
| ACF Region: VI |
State: Oklahoma |
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|
| Grantee Name: |
Cherokee Nation |
| Project Title: |
Cherokee
Lifeways
Afterschool and Community Project |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2011 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$366,665 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to create a way for the schools, communities and the Cherokee Nation
to work together to integrate Cherokee language and culture into the regular
curriculum of the schools and establish effective programming in Cherokee
community centers to combat negative behavior that prevents children from
being success in their social, cultural and scholastic life. This project will provide language, culture
and healthy lifeway activities in 14 rural schools and 14 communities. This project will increase use of Cherokee
language teach, computer skills and prevent high school dropout. |
| ACF Region: VI |
State: Oklahoma |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Citizen Potawatomi Community Development Corporation |
| Project Title: |
Citizen Potawatomi Native
American Financial Education and Entrepreneur Training Program Expansion Project. |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$202,288 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a one year project
to build organizational capacity to deliver higher levels of business
technical assistance, workshops, and financial education programs to support
Native businesses and to increase Tribal members’ capacity to address
barriers to economic self sufficiency. |
| ACF Region: VI |
State: Oklahoma |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Kaw Nation of
Oklahoma |
| Project Title: |
Kaw Nation Constitution
Reform Project |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2011 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$227,108 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project that will revise the tribal constitution to define and clarify roles
and responsibilities between Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of
tribal government. It will also ensure
the just functionality of the Constitution Committee and will educate tribal
members on the importance of participating in the constitution reform
process. |
| ACF Region: VI |
State: Oklahoma |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Kiowa Young Men's Association |
| Project Title: |
Kiowa Young Adult
Empowerment Project |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$140,149 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a one year
intergenerational project designed to assist young adults with problematic
issues confronting their progress towards financial, vocational and social
self-sufficiency. Six workshops will
be designed to teach values and methods of the Kiowa culture to assist young
adults in setting long and short range goals. |
| ACF Region: VI |
State: Oklahoma |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Modoc Tribe of
Oklahoma |
| Project Title: |
Modoc Tribe: Rebuilding with Technology |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2010 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$257,396 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
to develop and implement a technology plan for the Modoc Tribe. The project will increase the efficiency
and technological capabilities of the Tribe by installing new computer
equipment, software and networking technology in the new tribal
administration building. The project
will then transform the old temporary office building into a video training
center to be used by the Tribe or anyone in the surrounding area. |
| ACF Region: VI |
State: Oklahoma |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Osage Nation |
| Project Title: |
The Creating a
Self-Sufficient Economic and Business Environment |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2010 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$126,546 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
that has the goal of creating a self sufficient economic and business
environment. The Osage Nation will
develop a five year economic plan to identify viable community business
plans, infrastructure needs, tourism priorities, private business ventures
and possible research. This grant will
also supply diverse training in financial literacy and entrepreneurship. |
| ACF Region: VI |
State: Oklahoma |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Otoe-Missouria Tribe |
| Project Title: |
The Otoe-Missouria Tribal
Information Office Start-up |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2010 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$79,709 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
to establish an Information Office. The Information Office will be established to serve as a hub for two
way communication between tribal government and the tribal community. Communication is intended to reach all
tribal members as well as tribal employees through scheduled community
meetings. The Information Office will
also serve as a host for focus groups and employees will also conduct
surveys to attain the pulse of the community. |
| ACF Region: VI |
State: Oklahoma |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in
Oklahoma |
| Project Title: |
UKB Mentoring Emerging
Leaders Destiny |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2010 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$154,934 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
that will provide business learning opportunities for Tribal members through
on-the-job training, leadership workshops and business/computer classes. |
| ACF Region: VI |
State: Oklahoma |
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|
| Grantee Name: |
Miami Tribe of
Oklahoma |
| Project Title: |
Marriage Matters |
| Program Area: |
Native American Healthy Marriage Initiative |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2011 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$250,000 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to provide workshops on pre-marital education, marital education and
healthy relationship skills to youth, adults and couples to improve healthy
marriages and families and provide public advertising campaigns through 7
advertising agencies on the value of healthy marriage, parental involvement,
and responsible fatherhood. |
| ACF Region: VI |
State: Oklahoma |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Citizen Potawatomi Nation |
| Project Title: |
Potawatomi Language
Preservation Project |
| Program Area: |
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2007 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$121,890 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
that will teach the Potawatomi language to younger generations of the
Nation. A language curriculum will be
developed for early childhood, youth, intermediate, and advanced adult
abilities. |
| ACF Region: VI |
State: Oklahoma |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Euchee Tribe of Indians |
| Project Title: |
TahA Onk’a fA: We Carry
athe Euchee Language Further |
| Program Area: |
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2010 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$191,875 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
to implement Master-Apprentice learning teams. The apprentices will become language
bearers and implement children’s immersion routines. The project will also develop videos based
on oral presentations made for the entire community. |
| ACF Region: VI |
State: Oklahoma |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Kaw Nation |
| Project Title: |
Designing materials to
Teach Kanza Literacy through Historical Texts |
| Program Area: |
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2010 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$77,386 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
to plan and develop readers for historical Kanza stories and texts. The focus
of this project is to increase Kanza literacy amongst the Kaw Nation. |
| ACF Region: VI |
State: Oklahoma |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Kiowa Culture Preservation Authority |
| Project Title: |
Kiowa Language Fluency
Study |
| Program Area: |
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$100,000 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a one year project
to obtain current data on the status of the Kiowa language through
development, administration and analysis of a Kiowa language assessment tool. |
| ACF Region: VI |
State: Oklahoma |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Otoe-Missouria Tribe |
| Project Title: |
Otoe-Missouri Language
Assessment |
| Program Area: |
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$87,479 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a one year project
to determine the status of the Otoe-Missouri language. A language assessment
tool will be developed with collaborative efforts from the Native American
Studies Program at the
University
of
Oklahoma. Results
will be analyzed and presented as a formal report. |
| ACF Region: VI |
State: Oklahoma |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Ponca Tribe of Indians of
Oklahoma |
| Project Title: |
Ponca Tribe Language
Assessment Project |
| Program Area: |
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$87,237 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a one year project
to conduct a formal assessment of the Ponca language. The project includes
focus groups and one-on-one meetings with Tribal Elders to develop,
administer and analyze a language assessment tool. |
| ACF Region: VI |
State: Oklahoma |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Seminole Nation of
Oklahoma |
| Project Title: |
Seminole Language
Assessment Project |
| Program Area: |
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$89,070 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a one year project
to assess the current status of the Seminole language. The information
provided will provide baseline data that will be used in the planning for
long-term language preservation. |
| ACF Region: VI |
State: Oklahoma |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Miami Tribe of
Oklahoma |
| Project Title: |
Indoor Air Quality Project |
| Program Area: |
Environmental Regulatory Enhancement |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2007 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$58,317 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
to hire and train staff to develop and implement an indoor air quality
program. The program will address
indoor pollutants such as carbon monoxide, lead (from nearby Superfund site),
radon and mold. All public buildings
(twenty) and twenty-five private homes will be tested during the project
period. Education will be provided to
the public on methods of reducing risk for these pollutants. |
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| ACF Region: VI |
State: Texas |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Ysleta del Sur
Pueblo |
| Project Title: |
Project
Pueblo: Economic Development Revitalization
Project |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2007 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$144,749 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
to develop the foundation for long-term economic stability and
self-sufficiency by establishing an entrepreneur program and economic
development ordinances to establish a nonprofit. |
| ACF Region: VI |
State: Texas |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Ysleta del Sur
Pueblo |
| Project Title: |
Building Capacity Using
GIS/GPS Applications on the Tigua Reservation |
| Program Area: |
Environmental Regulatory Enhancement |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2010 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$145,526 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
to develop a GIS program for natural resources management. As part of the program, training on GIS and
GPS will be provided to tribal government staff and to youth who have a
potential for working in natural resources management. Maps will be created which identify tribal
lands, natural resources, cultural resources, roads, and other important
resources. |
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ACF Region: VII
| ACF Region: VII |
State: Kansas |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation |
| Project Title: |
Phase II of the Potawatomi
Language Revitalization Project |
| Program Area: |
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2011 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$142,041 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to teach the language through immersion to students age birth to
three. The project will also host 15
sessions of intergenerational language classes for the community each year. |
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| ACF Region: VII |
State: Missouri |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Saponi Nation of
Missouri, Mahenips Band |
| Project Title: |
Saponi Language Assessment |
| Program Area: |
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$64,865 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a one year project
to determine the status of the Saponi language through the development,
administration and analysis of a Saponi language assessment tool. |
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| ACF Region: VII |
State: Nebraska |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Ponca Economic Development Corporation (PEDCO) |
| Project Title: |
PEDCO CDFI/Tribal UCC
Project |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$245,912 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a one year project
that will support PEDCO in receiving the necessary trainings needed to
prepare for CDFI certification and develop a Tribal Uniform Commercial Code. |
| ACF Region: VII |
State: Nebraska |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Indian Center, Inc. |
| Project Title: |
Nebraska Indian Healthy Marriage Project |
| Program Area: |
Native American Healthy Marriage Initiative |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2006 - 9/29/2011 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$202,677 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a five year project
to establish focus groups and collect 450 surveys to determine a culturally
appropriate curriculum for their target communities. Sixteen trainers will be
trained to deliver Healthy Marriage education to the different communities
served by the Indian Center, Inc. A Healthy Marriage Strength Builders Manual
and Healthy Marriage Media Campaign will also be developed. |
| ACF Region: VII |
State: Nebraska |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Winnebago Tribe of
Nebraska |
| Project Title: |
Winnebago Hazohi Healthy
Marriage Project |
| Program Area: |
Native American Healthy Marriage Initiative |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2006 - 9/29/2011 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$105,765 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a five year project
to provide pre-marital WAIT education, fatherhood training utilizing the
‘Fatherhood is Sacred’ curriculum, and PREP training to youth, individuals
and couples. The project will also provide Train the Trainer activities for
the ‘Fatherhood is Sacred’ and PREP curriculums. |
| ACF Region: VII |
State: Nebraska |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Nebraska
Indian
Community College |
| Project Title: |
UmoNhoN Language
Revitalization Strategic Action Plan for Language Preservation Creation |
| Program Area: |
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2007 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$89,153 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
to train community members on language preservation issues, both pedagogical
and individual to the tribal community, in order to develop a strategic
action plan for preserving the OmoNhoN language. Language specialists and community members
will be engaged in the development of a plan that encompasses current
community language assessment data and encourages teaching of language skills
from one generation to another. |
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ACF Region: VIII
| ACF Region: VIII |
State: Colorado |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Southern Ute Indian Tribe |
| Project Title: |
Ute Language and Culture
Expansion Project |
| Program Area: |
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2006 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$92,011 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to develop a language curriculum that will be utilized in the
Montessori school. An archive will be established that will include a
pronunciation dictionary, a language CD for children, and audio recordings
for beginner, intermediate, and advanced courses. Additionally, the
curriculum will be utilized to train 80 tribal employees bi-weekly in the Ute
Language and to provide cultural awareness training to 400 employees. |
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| ACF Region: VIII |
State: Montana |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Blackfeet Tribal Business Council |
| Project Title: |
Improving the Well-Being of
Children – Native American Healthy Marriage Initiative |
| Program Area: |
Native American Healthy Marriage Initiative |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2006 - 9/29/2011 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$183,863 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a five year project
to provide relationship enhancement skills to 150 couples each year utilizing
the ‘Love's Cradle’ program. Staff will be trained in Love's Cradle and will
train other trainers to present this course. Focus groups will be developed
to create collaborative strategies that will assist the Blackfeet Tribe in
their Community Wellness and Relationship Strengthening initiative. |
| ACF Region: VIII |
State: Montana |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Fort
Belknap
College |
| Project Title: |
Promote the Survival and
Continuing Vitality of Native American Language |
| Program Area: |
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2007 - 9/29/2010 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$200,000 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to help achieve community language goals by producing and
disseminating instructional media, videos, CDs, and a White Clay grammar
manual. These materials will enhance
current and future efforts to teach the language. |
| ACF Region: VIII |
State: Montana |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Nkwusm |
| Project Title: |
Salish Language Academic
Curriculum Development |
| Program Area: |
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2011 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$223,855 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year project
to enhance and develop Salish language academic curriculum tools and
materials to provide for and effective sequenced and scaffolding course study
in an immersion environment. The
project will create new speakers via the enhancement of a curriculum that
reliably produces fluent Salish speakers. This project will create 9 levels of culturally relevant curriculum
guides in each Salish arts, mathematics, and science. This project will also create a Salish
fluency level assessment instrument to gauge student’s mastery of oral
fluency, grammar, vocabulary and listening comprehensive and to provide for
an evaluation measure of instruction. |
| ACF Region: VIII |
State: Montana |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Piegan Institute, Inc. |
| Project Title: |
Nizipuhwahsin Blackfeet
Immersion Program |
| Program Area: |
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2011 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$200,000 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to increase the number of language speakers with proficient fluency
in the Blackfeet language. This
project will train 3 prospective teachers to be fluent in Blackfeet to teach
in K-8 immersion classes. The results
from this project will be 12 children graduated from
Cuts
Wood
School with high level
language speaking skills in conversational Blackfeet with emphasis on the 7th
& 8th grade levels. |
| ACF Region: VIII |
State: Montana |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Salish
Kootenai
College |
| Project Title: |
Learning in Motion-Language
Teaching Institute |
| Program Area: |
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2006 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$137,675 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to create a Language Teaching Institute that will produce fluent
teachers and fluent speakers. |
| ACF Region: VIII |
State: Montana |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Stone
Child
College |
| Project Title: |
Stone
Child
College Cree Language Implementation Project |
| Program Area: |
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2007 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$184,367 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
to preserve and maintain the continued vitality of the Cree language by
conducting family Cree language classes and Cree language youth immersion
camps. |
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| ACF Region: VIII |
State: North Dakota |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Boys and Girls Club of the Three Affiliated Tribes |
| Project Title: |
Northern Lights Wellness
Program |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2010 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$271,376 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
to provide comprehensive and therapeutic holistic services for youth, their
families and elders, to include physical, mental and cultural/spiritual
services to improve family wellness. This project will provide health and wellness services for a minimum
of 80 youth between the ages of 5-18 and their parents or grandparents by
offering comprehensive health and wellness activities tailored to their
individual needs. |
| ACF Region: VIII |
State: North Dakota |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Turtle
Mountain Band of
Chippewa Indians |
| Project Title: |
Turtle
Mountain Entrepreneurial Development Project |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2011 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$129,750 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to develop stable, diversified businesses and tribal economic
activities that will provide jobs economic well being. The goal of this project is to combat
unemployment by developing an entrepreneurial training program and establish
an
Entrepreneurial
Development
Center. |
| ACF Region: VIII |
State: North Dakota |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
St. Ann's Church |
| Project Title: |
St. Ann's Native American Healthy Marriages Initiative
Project |
| Program Area: |
Native American Healthy Marriage Initiative |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2006 - 9/29/2011 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$198,965 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a five year project
to provide marriage enrichment activities to approximately 30 families per
year. Youth relationship skills education using the PREP curriculum will be
provided to 650 youth. This project will also develop a network/referral
system for the community that will also be used to develop mentors for the
families and youth participating in the program. |
| ACF Region: VIII |
State: North Dakota |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe |
| Project Title: |
Wakanyan Woglakapi Ktelo! |
| Program Area: |
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2010 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$102,417 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
to establish a strategic plan for a Lakota/ Dakota Language Nesting program.
This project will focus on increasing and preserving leveraged resources
through inter-governmental collaborations, partnerships and community
support. |
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| ACF Region: VIII |
State: South Dakota |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Four Bands Community Fund |
| Project Title: |
The Wicoicage Sakowin kin
un Wicakagapi (Building for the Seventh Generation) |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2010 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$139,848 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
to integrate financial literacy and entrepreneurship education into school
curriculum and community organizations on the Cheyenne River
Reservation. Incorporation of
financial literacy will ensure stronger small business and expanded economic
prosperity for future generations. Local teachers for all grade levels will receive financial literacy
training to pass on to students and secure the economic standing for future
generations. |
| ACF Region: VIII |
State: South Dakota |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Native American Advocacy Program |
| Project Title: |
Wicoti Tiwahe (Family Camp) |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2010 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$211,189 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
that will recruit youth and their families, elders and professional
volunteers to establish a campsite that will utilize traditional cultural
methods to increase relationship building skills and provide youth a sense of
belonging. |
| ACF Region: VIII |
State: South Dakota |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Pine Ridge Area Chamber of Commerce |
| Project Title: |
Marketing
Alliance Project |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2007 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$177,990 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
to build the organizational capacity of the Pine Ridge Area Chamber of
Commerce (PRACC) through the development and launch of a ‘Buy Local’
campaign. |
| ACF Region: VIII |
State: South Dakota |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Thunder Valley CDC |
| Project Title: |
Thunder
Valley Youth Development through Entrepreneurship Project |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2010 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$387,467 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
to provide entrepreneurship training for Native American Youth to learn how
to meet short and long term goals to practice healthy lifestyles. A number of businesses will be started and
they will contribute to the sustainability of this project as well with funds
and mentor resources. |
| ACF Region: VIII |
State: South Dakota |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Wakanyeja Pawicayapi, Inc. |
| Project Title: |
Tiwahe wicozani Pi Kte
Enhancement Project |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2006 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$354,261 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to provide equine therapeutic services and horsemanship skills
training for Lakota youth ages 11-16. This project will provide support to
the children in four domains of individual development: spiritual, mental,
emotional, and physical. The children will be enrolled in the project in
phases and the project is structured to retain children that enroll in the
first year activities. |
| ACF Region: VIII |
State: South Dakota |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Rural
America
Initiatives |
| Project Title: |
Lakota Healthy Marriages |
| Program Area: |
Native American Healthy Marriage Initiative |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2011 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$299,058 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to provide relationship skills to 240 youth, healthy marriage and
relationship skills to 50 adults, and will train 16 mentors in healthy
marriage skills. This project will
also develop a sustainable healthy marriage component to the existing Ateyepi
Program. |
| ACF Region: VIII |
State: South Dakota |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Lower
Brule
Community College |
| Project Title: |
Professional Lakota
Language Instructor Development Project |
| Program Area: |
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2007 - 9/29/2011 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$186,242 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project that will train certified Lakota language instructors in the Lower
Brule Education system to meet State World Language Standards. |
| ACF Region: VIII |
State: South Dakota |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Oceti Wakan - Sacred Fireplace |
| Project Title: |
Lakota Language Learning
Stations/Elders Interaction |
| Program Area: |
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2010 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$143,768 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
to develop materials for the youngest of students, (kindergarten, first and
second graders), a solid foundation in the Lakota language. This project will develop 44 Lakota Language
Learning Stations, along with one set of 80 magnetic cards containing simple
conversational Lakota sentences for each Lakota Language Learning Stations
for nine elementary schools on the Pine Ridge Reservation. The project will also design and develop
three books with accompanying three CDs for the parents and teachers that
will include the same 80 sentences that the children will be learning at the
Lakota Language Learning Stations. |
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| ACF Region: VIII |
State: Utah |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Ka Lama Mohala Foundation |
| Project Title: |
Lei Aloha O
Ka'Ohana-Family, The Never Ending Circle of Love |
| Program Area: |
Native American Healthy Marriage Initiative |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$128,626 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a one year project
to develop a strategic plan to implement a healthy relationships/marriages
program focused on Ohana. |
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ACF Region IX
| ACF Region: IX |
State: Arizona |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Developing Innovations in Navajo Education, Inc. |
| Project Title: |
Navajo Nation Traditional
Agricultural Outreach |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2007 - 9/29/2010 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$236,917 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to install drip irrigated community gardens at nine chapter houses,
train local youth to establish and manage gardens, and execute the marketing
plan for produce to commercial kitchen operations. |
| ACF Region: IX |
State: Arizona |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Moenkopi Developers Corporation, Inc. |
| Project Title: |
Water Resource Planning
Undertaken to Facilitate Residential and Private Sector Economic Development
within the Upper
village
of
Moenkopi (UVM) |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2010 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$180,001 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
to create a long-term water supply plan for Upper Village of Moenkopi to
secure a long-term safe and potable water supply that is sufficient to
accommodate both residential needs and economic growth. |
| ACF Region: IX |
State: Arizona |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Shonto Community Development Corporation, Inc. |
| Project Title: |
The Development of Laws and
Policies |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2011 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$132,015 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to develop and implement an administrative business site leasing
management process and develop and enact a Uniform Commercial Code. The Shonto Community is putting together
policy to support community-based social, economic, and governance
activities. |
| ACF Region: IX |
State: Arizona |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Sipaulovi Development Corporation |
| Project Title: |
Tourism and
Entrepreneurship for a Sustainable Future |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2007 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$97,680 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
to provide administrative infrastructure for business and tourism
development; establish a tourist market; and train potential entrepreneurs to
start their own businesses. |
| ACF Region: IX |
State: Arizona |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
The Nakwatsvewat Institute, Inc. |
| Project Title: |
Hopi Dispute Resolution
Services |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2006 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$302,500 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to develop an alternative dispute resolution program for the villages
of the Hopi Tribe in
Arizona.
The project will train volunteer village members in mediation and negotiation
skills, coordinate and administer the disputes resolution process for
participating disputants, assist the villages in formalizing the process at
the village level, and involve village and tribal leaders as well as Hopi
judicial system in order to ensure that disputants utilize the service. |
| ACF Region: IX |
State: Arizona |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Yavapai-Apache Nation |
| Project Title: |
The Yavapai-Apache Nation
Health and Human Services Manuel Update |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$81,944 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a one year project
to update programs, policies, and procedures manuals. This grant will also improve communication
and coordination among all Yavapai-Apache Nation HHS programs and
local/state/federal program services. Community service delivery, including tribal members input, will also
be incorporated into the new programs, policies, and procedures manuals. |
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| ACF Region: IX |
State: California |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
American Indian Recruitment Programs |
| Project Title: |
The “Voices of Tomorrow” |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$111,562 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a one year project
to develop an American Indian youth program. The objective of this program will increase economic and
self-expressive opportunities for youth through a specifically targeted,
culturally sensitive after-school program. The “Voices of Tomorrow” program incorporates workshops to promote
higher education, decrease drop-out rates and gain exposure to employment
opportunities. |
| ACF Region: IX |
State: California |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Bishop Paiute Tribe |
| Project Title: |
Bishop Tribal Crisis
Intervention |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2010 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$167,977 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
that will provide access to crisis intervention services that assure secure
housing, sustained education, sufficient water and energy, dispute
resolution, adequate nutrition, healthcare and personal security for tribal
residents. Data will be collected for
building social services infrastructure and staff will be trained in crisis
intervention and mediation/arbitration skills. |
| ACF Region: IX |
State: California |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Karuk Tribe of
California |
| Project Title: |
Karuk Language Distance
Education Project |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2006 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$301,209 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to recruit, hire, promote, and retain its own members as employees
and increase employment, post secondary education, and provide career
development. It will establish minimum training standards and develop
personnel policies as well as partner with six (6) public and private sector
organizations and develop six (6) new personnel policies. |
| ACF Region: IX |
State: California |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Manzanita Band of
Mission
Indians |
| Project Title: |
The
Manzanita
Tribal
Land Use Plan for
Self-Sufficiency |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$84,810 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a one year project
to develop a Land Use Plan in response to urban sprawl from
San Diego
California. The main goal of the Land Use Plan is to
identify available resources for cultural preservation, economic development,
and housing. The Manzanita Band of
Mission Indians strategic plan will involve input from community members and
tribal council to ensure increased tribal governance capability and also to
increase local control of tribal resources. |
| ACF Region: IX |
State: California |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Redwood
Valley Little River Band of Pomo Indians |
| Project Title: |
The Development of
Redwood
Valley Tribal Demographic Data
Consolidation and Management System |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$89,643 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a one year project
that is updating centralized databases for tribal government and operations
management. This project will update
current computer infrastructure and develop a reporting system to support the
tribal government in planning, housing, economic development, and social
services. This project also trains
two staff members in data collection, data consolidation and reporting. |
| ACF Region: IX |
State: California |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Susanville Indian Rancheria |
| Project Title: |
Susanville Indian Rancheria
Economic Development Plan |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$196,716 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a one year project
to develop the infrastructure and foundation for an Economic Development
Branch of Tribal Governance. The
Department will enhance and support economic and social development on the
Rancheria by improving the quality of life for its members and encouraging
self-sufficiency for the government. |
| ACF Region: IX |
State: California |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Suscol Intertribal Council |
| Project Title: |
The Design and Training for
Suscol House project |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2010 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$78,170 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
with the objective of establishing a Native American Culture Center to
preserve Suscol Tribe heritage. The
purpose of the Native American Culture Center is to maintain the traditions
and ceremonies that were done for thousands of years. To supplement the
Culture
Center,
interns will be hired to help with tribal activities. |
| ACF Region: IX |
State: California |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Tribal Economic and Social Solutions Agency, Inc. |
| Project Title: |
Foster Care Enhancement
Project |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2010 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$238,127 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
that will develop therapeutic training activities focused on strengthening
the skills of foster parents, ICWA coordinators, foster children and support services
for biological parents. |
| ACF Region: IX |
State: California |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Tuolumne Mewuk Tribe of Indians |
| Project Title: |
The
Tuolumne
Rancheria Master Planning Project |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2011 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$84,730 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to implement planning for Rancheria. The project’s two major goals are to write comprehensive population
and land codes and to create a master plan for the unprecedented economic
growth and demand for housing and social services. With recently added property and expanding
economic ventures, Rancheria is taking preventative measures to reduce stress
on local infrastructure and plan for its economic future. |
| ACF Region: IX |
State: California |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Ukiah Hinthill Community & Cultural Development,
Inc. |
| Project Title: |
The Yokaia Economic
Development Project |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$76,899 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a one year project
to strengthen the UHCCD non-profit organization and the Yokayo Tribal
Member’s capacity to plan and develop an economic project for their
Bottomland. The object of the Yokaia
Economic Development project is to have six Economic Development Training
workshops, create a Land Use Plan and Map of the Yokayo Bottomland and to
have developed Economic Feasibility Study. |
| ACF Region: IX |
State: California |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Indian Child Welfare Consortium |
| Project Title: |
Improving the Well-Being of
Children-Native American Healthy Marriage Initiative |
| Program Area: |
Native American Healthy Marriage Initiative |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2011 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$227,275 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to conduct a community awareness campaign on the importance of
healthy marriages, to implement culturally tailored healthy marriages program
with 75 families, and to develop a set of evaluation tools and conduct
evaluation relative to family participation, engagement, satisfaction, couple
relationships and child functioning. |
| ACF Region: IX |
State: California |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Riverside-San Bernardino County Indian Health, Inc. |
| Project Title: |
Native Challenge Healthy
Marriage Initiative Project |
| Program Area: |
Healthy Marriage |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2011 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$215,827 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to provide pre-marital education to 1,000 students in 10 schools,
increase students’ knowledge on pre-marital education, dating violence, and
communication, and provide pre-marital education to 300 pregnant and
parenting adolescents in an out-of-school program. |
| ACF Region: IX |
State: California |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
United American Indian Involvement, Inc. |
| Project Title: |
Develop and Implement
Strengthening American Indian Families |
| Program Area: |
Native American Healthy Marriage Initiative |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2006 - 9/29/2011 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$198,630 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a five year project
to provide education in youth organizations and community centers on the
value of healthy relationship skills including conflict resolution,
communication, commitment, marriage education, marriage skills, parenting
skills, and relationship skills. |
| ACF Region: IX |
State: California |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Chamorro Hands in Education Links Unity |
| Project Title: |
Tungo’ i Estao i Fino’-ta
(To Know the Status of Our Language) |
| Program Area: |
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$100,000 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a one year project
to analyze the status of the Chamorro language in the
San Diego metro area. Results will then be
distributed to 15 key stakeholders. |
| ACF Region: IX |
State: California |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Dry Creek Rancheria Band of Pomo Indians |
| Project Title: |
Mihilakawna Language
Preservation and Restoration Planning Project |
| Program Area: |
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$100,000 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a one year project
to ascertain the status of the Dry Creek Rancheria-Southern Pomo language.
This project will provide a through analysis to aid in the preservation of
the language. |
| ACF Region: IX |
State: California |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Karuk Tribe of
California |
| Project Title: |
Karuk Master/Apprentice
Documentation Project |
| Program Area: |
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2011 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$143,167 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to document elder and fluent speakers using younger learners to
record the Karuk spoken language. The project will also transcribe, analyze
and share files for the Karuk Dictionary and a video pod cast series. |
| ACF Region: IX |
State: California |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Smith
River Rancheria |
| Project Title: |
Taa-laa-wa Dee-ni'Wee-ya'
(The Tolowa Peoples' Language) Project |
| Program Area: |
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2006 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$92,287 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to develop an age-appropriate language curriculum that will be
utilized in four local schools. This project will also assist the tribe in
obtaining documented recordings of their remaining fluent speakers. |
| ACF Region: IX |
State: California |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Susanville Indian Rancheria |
| Project Title: |
Susanville Indian Rancheria
Language Assessment Project |
| Program Area: |
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$70,521 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a one year project
to determine the status of the four indigenous languages represented by the
Susanville Indian Rancheria. The project will be develop, distribute and
analyze language assessments for the Maidu, Paiute, Pit River and Washoe languages. |
| ACF Region: IX |
State: California |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Yurok Tribe |
| Project Title: |
Yurok Tribe Fluency Project |
| Program Area: |
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2006 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$165,389 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to develop language tests and curriculum units that will include
academic coursework in basic, intermediate and advanced grammar. The project
will also hold intensive summer institutes to provide mentoring to teacher
interns. |
| ACF Region: IX |
State: California |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Hopland Band of Pomo Indians |
| Project Title: |
Implementation of the
Hopland Band of Pomo Indians’ Enforcement Program |
| Program Area: |
Environmental Regulatory Enhancement |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2007 - 9/29/2010 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$85,487 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to develop a baseline database of ecological conditions using benthic
macro-invertebrates from reservation water bodies and flora and fauna
throughout the reservation. This baseline will be used in comparisons with
future conditions to determine ecological trends and inform future
environmental regulatory programs. Furthermore, a process will be developed through which proposed
development projects can be assessed for their impact on the environment. |
| ACF Region: IX |
State: California |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Yurok Tribe |
| Project Title: |
Enhancing Environmental
Protection and Yurok Tribal Sovereignty |
| Program Area: |
Environmental Regulatory Enhancement |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2007 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$170,645 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
to collect and analyze data for the development of a plan for future
regulatory enhancement. Data will be
collected through discussions with Tribal community members and various
Tribal government departments. In
addition, archival research will be added to the data collected. Potential pollutant sources will be mapped
and checked for accuracy. |
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| ACF Region: IX |
State: American Samoa |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
America
Samoa Soil and Water Conservation District |
| Project Title: |
Pigs in
Paradise:
Retaining a Samoan Cultural Tradition |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2007 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$98,752 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
to provide assistance to piggery owners for the compliance with a land use
permitting program. Piggery owners
will receive technical assistance on conservation planning and animal waste
management systems to protect water quality and human health. |
| ACF Region: IX |
State: American Samoa |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Intersections, Inc. |
| Project Title: |
Le Nuanua Connections Media
Project |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2011 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$339,142 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to provide training to 50 youth in film making, leadership, and
finance. Elders will serve as mentors
during the job training and 4 media specialist will be hired to produce films
that would raise awareness in the community about youth and cultural issues. |
| ACF Region: IX |
State: American Samoa |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Native American Samoan Advisory Council |
| Project Title: |
The Native American Samoan
Ceremonial Siapo Restoration |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2007 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$226,665 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
to reintroduce and educate village residents on the critical importance of
Siapo in the Native American Samoan culture and ceremony. The project will
begin the restoration of Siapo’s use in ritual and cultural events. |
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| ACF Region: IX |
State: Guam |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Historic Inalahan Foundation, Inc. |
| Project Title: |
Youth Engagement in Culture
and Community |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2011 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$261,289 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to provide social activities and training for youth that will
increase their culture knowledge and skills through organized workshops,
events and performances. The
activities will occur after school and weekends allowing 30 youth to engage
in at least one community service project per month and 10 youth to
participate in a repair brigade project. |
| ACF Region: IX |
State: Guam |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Pa'a Taotao Tano' |
| Project Title: |
Pa'a Taotao Tano Northern
Cultural Performing Arts Project |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2006 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$291,620 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year project
to provide 410 Chamorro performing arts practitioners from the northern
villages of Dedego and Yigo opportunities to showcase their cultural
traditions. The project will also assist advanced performing arts
practitioners in partnering with hotels serving the tourism industry for
economic benefit. |
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| ACF Region: IX |
State: Hawaii |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Hawaiian Community Assets |
| Project Title: |
Brokering Mortgages to
Support Financial Literacy Enhancement Project |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2007 - 9/29/2010 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$352,200 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to address the needs of eligible applicants who do not meet the
financial requirements for home ownership under the Department of Hawaiian
Home Lands (DHHL) land allocation program. Participants will attend workshops covering financial management
skills, financial literacy and foreclosure prevention training, homeownership
training, customized credit counseling, and a variety of individualized case
management services. |
| ACF Region: IX |
State: Hawaii |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Keomailani Hanapi Foundation |
| Project Title: |
Pilot Native Hawaiian Art
Education Project |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2011 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$305,837 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project that will develop an art education training program for emerging
artists and existing artists. Artists
will participate in Summer and Winter sessions and will exhibit their art
each year. Additional exhibits and an
Arts Market will also be developed each year of this project. |
| ACF Region: IX |
State: Hawaii |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Na Kamalei-Ko'olauLoa Early Education Program (KEEP) |
| Project Title: |
Na
Kama
o Ko'olauLoa |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2006 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$290,851 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to develop and publish 8 Native Hawaiian children's books for 3,000
children, create a cultural curriculum for 250 parents and classrooms, train
24 providers and 12 interns, and enhance the communication and feedback of
family-to-provider collaboration. |
| ACF Region: IX |
State: Hawaii |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Nanakuli Housing Corporation |
| Project Title: |
Kukuli I Na Hale ‘Ohana
Makepono: Building Family Homes Affordably |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2011 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$224,500 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to design affordable modular housing for homestead residents to
address the housing needs of Native Hawaiians. The grantee will work with partners to
source cheaper and higher quality, materials from the
U.S.
mainland or
Asia
to also work towards having more affordable and environmentally friendly home
alternatives. |
| ACF Region: IX |
State: Hawaii |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Native Hawaiian Tourism & Hospitality
Association |
| Project Title: |
Shaping the Future of
Tourism: Expanding Economic Opportunities for Native Hawaiians |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2006 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$254,988 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to improve opportunities for Native Hawaiians to succeed in and shape
Hawaii's
dominant industry, tourism. The project participants will develop respectful
and authentic Hawaiian Culture Immersion and Cultural Certification Programs
which will have market value to the tourist industry; then 25 people will be
trained to become Program Trainers; deliver, evaluate, refine, and pilot the
programs to 20 executives and 86 operational employees within hotel
properties in Waikiki on O'ahu. |
| ACF Region: IX |
State: Hawaii |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Partners in Development |
| Project Title: |
Ike No’eau Native Hawaiian
Math and Science Curriculum and Culture Project |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2007 - 9/29/2010 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$335,243 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is three year project
that will partner with the Ka Pa’alana Traveling Preschool and Homeless
Outreach to improve the math and science skills of pre-school aged Native
children living with families below the poverty line. Through the creation of a culturally
sensitive curriculum targeted to children in poverty, the conditions necessary
to break the cycle of poverty can be introduced. |
| ACF Region: IX |
State: Hawaii |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Pasifika Foundation Hawaii, Inc. |
| Project Title: |
Community Based
Host/Visitor Project (CBHV): Phase III: Host Template and Visitor Curriculum
Development. |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2010 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$248,744 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
that will build on the previous two CBHV development phases. The third phase will provide Kanaka Maoki
communities access to and control of a portion of
Hawaii’s leading economic sector, the
visitor industry. The project’s
strategic model is the establishment of a community-based host/visitor (CBHV)
program with three main components: a governance template for hosts, a
curriculum for visitors, and a web-based interface through which hosts and
visitors can interact. |
| ACF Region: IX |
State: Hawaii |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
The
Neighborhood
Place of Wailuku, Inc. |
| Project Title: |
Wailuku Ho'onui Mana ‘Ohana
Initiative – Family Strengthening Program |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2006 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$414,463 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to design and provide a continuum of programs focused on guiding
participants through a series of family development and enhancement
activities. The project will culminate in leadership training for the most
motivated families that will focus on the creation of their own businesses in
order to promote self-sufficiency. |
| ACF Region: IX |
State: Hawaii |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Wai'anae Coast Coalition for Human Services |
| Project Title: |
Wai’anae Coast Coalition of
Human Services |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2007 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$290,782 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This two year project will
conduct surveys and focus groups to identify and catalogue cultural
activities and services that Native Hawaiian families require and
desire. These activities and services
will be incorporated into a comprehensive culturally based, family-friendly
center. |
| ACF Region: IX |
State: Hawaii |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Waianae Community Re-Development Corporation (WCRC) |
| Project Title: |
The Center for Organic
Agriculture and Sustainability |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2011 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$312,680 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to provide multi-purpose venue for food production that will increase
commercial efforts of organic farms. This will develop a working base for social enterprise, organic
agriculture and apply sustainability that can be replicated in other
communities. |
| ACF Region: IX |
State: Hawaii |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Waipa Foundation |
| Project Title: |
Waipa Community Kitchen and
Business Incubator Project |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2011 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$343,722 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to provide and oversee a fully equipped and certified commercial
kitchen facility that will allow farmers, families and community members
space to process crops and grow small businesses. This will promote a healthy, diverse and
sustainable local food economy for the Halele’a-Kilauea communities. |
| ACF Region: IX |
State: Hawaii |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Keiki O Ka Aina Family Learning Centers |
| Project Title: |
Ho’ohiki Pilina Project –
To Maintain Commitment |
| Program Area: |
Native American Healthy Marriage Initiative |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2007 - 9/29/2012 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$169,240 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a five year project
to provide healthy marriage workshops utilizing the Loving Couples, Loving
Children curriculum to 400 couples on the islands of Maui and
Oahu. The
project will develop a public awareness campaign on Healthy Marriages. |
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| ACF Region: IX |
State: Marianas Islands |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Northern
Marianas
College |
| Project Title: |
Project Connect:
Inter-Island Distance Learning Network |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2006 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$299,584 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to establish a point-to-point wireless network that will connect the
3 remote islands of Saipan, Tinian and
Rota
with reliable and consistent access to education, information, and vital
resources. This will allow the transmission of critical knowledge, valuable
resources including educational courses, workshops, telemedicine, and
community services. |
| ACF Region: IX |
State: Marianas Islands |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
San Vicente Elementary School Community Based
Management |
| Project Title: |
San Vicente Elementary
School Community Based Management, Inc. |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2010 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$378,168 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
to repair, restore, and improve the
Aquaculture
Science
Center and develop
off-campus farms for instruction and learning. The project will teach cultural land use as
well as science, math and business skills to the San Vicente Elementary
School students. |
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| ACF Region: IX |
State: Nevada |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Reno Sparks
Indian Colony |
| Project Title: |
Enhancing Tribal Management
Systems |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$208,645 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a one year project
that aims to increase tribal governance capacity by developing and
implementing a manual and centralized database for the Tribe. |
| ACF Region: IX |
State: Nevada |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Washoe Tribe of
Nevada
and
California |
| Project Title: |
The Governance Project |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$111,899 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a one year project
to enact laws and codes that support and enforce business and investment
transactions, contracts and property rights. The Washoe Tribe grant also employs legal assistance in examining
contracts for economic development opportunities and soliciting loans for
start up business projects. The last
objective of the Governance Project is to bring management and leadership
training to senior tribal personnel to prepare them to advance tribal
economic development and self sufficiency. |
| ACF Region: IX |
State: Nevada |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Yerington Paiute Tribe |
| Project Title: |
Yerington Paiute Tribal
Healthy Marriage Grant - Education/Training to High School & Young Adults |
| Program Area: |
Native American Healthy Marriage Initiative |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$127,012 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a one year project
to conduct an assessment of the community to determine barriers to
participating in services, conduct a curricula review of pre-marital
education with 24 youth and marital education programs with 24 adults to find
culturally appropriate curricula for the community, and will develop a plan
by the 12th month to implement a healthy marriage program in the community. |
| ACF Region: IX |
State: Nevada |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Ely Shoshone Tribe |
| Project Title: |
To Have the Best Methods
and Approaches Possible in Language Instruction and Electronic Repository |
| Program Area: |
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$125,996 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a one year project
that will the enhance quality and availability of Shoshone language and
cultural learning materials. This project includes the development of a
talking dictionary, enhancement of language curriculums and creation of an
electronic repository of cultural media items. |
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ACF Region X
| ACF Region: X |
State: Alaska |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Alaska Native
Tribal Health Consortium |
| Project Title: |
Alaska Rural Utility Collaborative (ARUC) |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2007 - 9/29/2010 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$446,410 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to design, develop and implement a self-sustaining statewide ARUC to
provide 15-24 villages with capacity building technical and managerial
assistance to manage and operate water and sewer utilities in a sustainable
manner. This in turn will promote self
determination, quality of life, public health, and economic development. |
| ACF Region: X |
State: Alaska |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Calista Elders Council |
| Project Title: |
The Way We Genuinely Live:
Yup'ik Teachings, Words of Wisdom and Rules for Right Living |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2006 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$164,708 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to integrate the knowledge, wisdom and skills of elders in order to
sustain traditional values and methods of mentoring youth. The project will
promote healthy relationships and strengthen families and communities within
the Yukon-Kuskokwim Region. |
| ACF Region: X |
State: Alaska |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Chilkoot Indian Association |
| Project Title: |
Chilkoot Indian Association
24 month Human Capital and Economic Development Project |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2007 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$106,387 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
to implement a formal training program within the Tribal government for
employees. The program will provide
business development training to tribal members for the start up of tribally
owned businesses. |
| ACF Region: X |
State: Alaska |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Chugach Regional Resources Commission |
| Project Title: |
Chugach Native Region of Alaska Economic Development Project |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2006 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$297,211 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to create businesses and employment opportunities for Tribal member
communities based on the development of the fisheries resources. The project
will develop safe and effective methods for improving incubation and marine
survival of pink salmon from the Port Graham hatchery, reestablish the
Nanwalek sockeye salmon enhancement project, and develop techniques for
commercial production of cockles at Tatitlek. The project will provide the
region's tribes and tribal members with business services such as analysis,
advice, planning and identifying financing opportunities. |
| ACF Region: X |
State: Alaska |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Cook Inlet Tribal Council, Inc. |
| Project Title: |
Two Spirits Arts Center |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2006 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$269,743 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year project to expand the existing Two Spirits Gallery into an Art Center in order to better meet the needs of gallery participants and to re-locate the gallery/art center to a more marketable downtown location. |
| ACF Region: X |
State: Alaska |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Kawerak, Inc. |
| Project Title: |
Beringia
Museum of Culture and Science Program Planning |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2011 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$211,294 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to develop the interpretive programs, displays and local workforce
that will be presented to the broader public – with a focus on youth and visitors
to the region – the culture, arts and science of the Beringia region. |
| ACF Region: X |
State: Alaska |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Kenaitze Indian Tribe |
| Project Title: |
K'beq Interpretive Site
Cultural Tourism Project |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2006 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$60,302 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to develop a K'Beq Interpretive Site that will increase cultural
interpretive jobs and promote the cultural and economic well-being of the
Kenaitze Indian Tribe. A marketing plan will be designed to increase
international tourist visits by 15% and overall visits and revenues by an
average annual growth of 28%. |
| ACF Region: X |
State: Alaska |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Knik Tribal Council |
| Project Title: |
Knik Tribal Workforce
Development Project |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2006 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$367,899 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to provide Tribal members and Native Borough residents with career
guidance, education, training and job placement assistance. |
| ACF Region: X |
State: Alaska |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Native
Village of Eyak |
| Project Title: |
The Ilanka Native Arts
Consortium (INAC) |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2007 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$205,385 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
to develop an artist and membership consortium to provide a venue, physical
and on line, for artists to sell traditional arts and crafts thereby increasing
the visibility of local cultural crafts. At least 200 people will participate in workshops that teach new
skills and raise cultural awareness. |
| ACF Region: X |
State: Alaska |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Native
Village of
Georgetown |
| Project Title: |
Tribal Leaders Youth Camp |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2007 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$99,447 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
to plan and hold two youth training programs to introduce youth to career and
economic opportunities along the Kuskokwim River. This is the original territory of the Native
Village and future location of the community. |
| ACF Region: X |
State: Alaska |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Old
Harbor Tribal Council |
| Project Title: |
Old
Harbor King Crab Restoration Project – Phase I |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$281,518 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a one year project
that will partner with the research and technology department of the Alutiiq
Pride Shellfish Hatchery to train 6
Old
Harbor
community members in king crab hatchery and nursery techniques. The project aims to identify a site for a
future hatchery and nursery in
Old
Harbor
Village
and develop a business plan for future operations. |
| ACF Region: X |
State: Alaska |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Sitka Tribe of
Alaska |
| Project Title: |
“Made in
Sitka” Small Business Development Project |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2006 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$80,479 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project in which two tribal art-based businesses will provide the skills and
training necessary for Tribal citizens to capitalize on integrated
opportunities. |
| ACF Region: X |
State: Alaska |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Spruce Island Development Corporation |
| Project Title: |
Ouzinkie Tourism
Development Project |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2011 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$190,477 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to develop a tour business through which day visitors will come from
Kodiak by boat, to tour the Ouzinkie waterfront, learn about plant and animal
life and the local population, watch Alutiiq dancing and eat local
foods. Two annual special events will
be held. Furthermore, residents will
participate in beautification efforts and local businesses will be mentored. |
| ACF Region: X |
State: Alaska |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council |
| Project Title: |
Energy Conservation,
Education, and Alternatives Development in the
Yukon
River Watershed. |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2007 - 9/29/2010 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$227,660 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to provide energy efficiency/conservation training to at least 15
Tribes; install energy conservation measures; and initiate renewable energy
programs with the local community highlighting different technologies (wind,
solar, micro hydro and fuel cells). With local participation, the project will utilize on-the job training
and educational workshops to expand energy awareness in the region. |
| ACF Region: X |
State: Alaska |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Mount Sanford Tribal
Consortium |
| Project Title: |
Healthy Families - Healthy
Community Project |
| Program Area: |
Native American Healthy Marriage Initiative |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2011 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$154,520 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to provide training on the value of healthy marriages and responsible
fatherhood through in-school, after-school and community programs for 30
youth and 20 young adults and to conduct a public awareness campaign to
communities within the Tok and
Copper River
region on the value of healthy marriage, parental involvement, and
responsible fatherhood. |
| ACF Region: X |
State: Alaska |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Native
Village of Afognak |
| Project Title: |
Tamamta Tanqipet Tuniutapet
“All of Us Are Tending Our Light” |
| Program Area: |
Native American Healthy Marriage Initiative |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2007 - 9/29/2012 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$199,740 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a five year project
to educate youth and parents about making informed decisions regarding
healthy relationships through culturally-appropriate pre-marital and family
communication education. During
summers, youth will attend camps on healthy relationships; throughout the
year, youth and adults will participate in workshops and awareness events on
healthy relationships and marriages. |
| ACF Region: X |
State: Alaska |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Chilkat
Indian
Village |
| Project Title: |
The Business Development
and
Capacity
Building
for the Jilkaat Kwaan Cultural
Heritage
Center |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies -Alaska |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2010 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$127,888 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
to address the need for cultural preservation and economic development for
the
Chilkat
Indian
Village. The
Cultural
Heritage
Center will be
established for local tourism in an effort to develop a sustainable community
business. By teaching local tribal
members skills related to management, customer service, food service and
retail sales, the tribe will work in collaboration with a marketing team to ensure
tourism. |
| ACF Region: X |
State: Alaska |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Chugachmiut |
| Project Title: |
Chugach Region Health and
Social Service Community Needs Assessment |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies - Alaska |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$146,579 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a one year project
to identify health and social service program needs in four Alaska Native
villages. The project will administer
a community needs assessment in each village and use the results to determine
future programs that should be developed to meet the village needs. |
| ACF Region: X |
State: Alaska |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Council of Athabascan Tribal Governments |
| Project Title: |
Self Governance for the
Conservation of Traditional Lands:
Tribal
Land Use Planning
Initiative |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies - Alaska |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2006 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$138,164 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to build the foundation for the development of appropriate and
effective tribal natural resources programming among participating tribes.
Through an integrated approach of traditional tribal land use mapping,
planning, and conservation, participating tribes will build their capacity
and ability to effectively govern their lands and resources into the future. |
| ACF Region: X |
State: Alaska |
| Grantee Name: |
Nanwalek IRA Council |
| Project Title: |
The Nanwalek IRA Council
Tribe Enrollment Project |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies - Alaska |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$92,500 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a one year project
to establish a current Tribal enrollment system for long term use. The grant will be used to hire a Tribal
Enrollment Clerk to organize tribal members, improve communications between
members and the tribal council and provide membership cards to tribal
members. |
| ACF Region: X |
State: Alaska |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Native
Village of
Anaktuvuk
Pass |
| Project Title: |
The
Anaktuvuk
Pass Tribal
Enterprise Development Project |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies - Alaska |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$130,000 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a one year project
to build a community based business enterprise to create employment and
stimulate the local economy. The
Tribe will open sustainable businesses, including a washeteria and retail
outlet, to cater to local residents and tourists. The Enterprise Development project will
provide valuable business training from onsite workshops and give hands on
training to local tribal members. |
| ACF Region: X |
State: Alaska |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Native
Village of Napaimute |
| Project Title: |
The Pioneer Airstrip
Economic Incubation |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies - Alaska |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$125,680 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a one year project
to prepare lots adjacent to the newly constructed airstrip for commercial
lease by installing water and septic tanks. The project will advertise the lots for commercial lease and expects
to enter into at least one commercial lease by the end of the project period. |
| ACF Region: X |
State: Alaska |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Nome
Native
Arts
Center |
| Project Title: |
Capacity
Building
of
Nome
Native
Arts
Center |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies - Alaska |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$134,446 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a one year project
to build capacity by gathering financial data and providing education on the
protection of cultural intellectual property to Artists, Tribal Governments,
and the general public, and the development of policies and procedures to
establish a five year Strategic Plan for the Nome Native Arts Center. |
| ACF Region: X |
State: Alaska |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Qutekcak Native Tribe |
| Project Title: |
The Qutekcak Learning and
Culture
Center Volunteer Project |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies - Alaska |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$111,233 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a one year project
to increase participation for Qutekcak tribal community events in an effort
to expand knowledge of Alaskan Native heritage. A Volunteer Curriculum will be developed to
incorporate tribal volunteers to expand limited knowledge of Alaskan Native
History. This project is a way to help
build self-esteem and developing a sense of Native identity and unity. |
| ACF Region: X |
State: Alaska |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
St. George Traditional Council |
| Project Title: |
St. George Island Institute
Infrastructure Development |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies - Alaska |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$150,000 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a one year project
to stimulate economic development on
St.
George
Island
. The project will complete the architectural
and renovation plans for two historic structures, finalize a business plan,
and train five local youth as tour guides of a cultural and interpretive
center. |
| ACF Region: X |
State: Alaska |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Alaska
Native
Heritage
Center |
| Project Title: |
Dena’ina Qenaga Qunuhdulzex
( The Dena’ina language is Coming Back) |
| Program Area: |
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2010 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$117,113 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
to develop an advanced level, verb-based curriculum for the Dena’ina
language. This project includes development of prototypes for audio-visual
and web-based language lessons that would be appropriate for both classroom
and independent students. |
| ACF Region: X |
State: Alaska |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Chugachmiut |
| Project Title: |
Sugpiaq Quliyangau’ait:
People’s Stories |
| Program Area: |
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2010 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$199,405 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
to record elder fluent speakers’ stories. The project will also translate, transcribe and archive the
recordings. |
| ACF Region: X |
State: Alaska |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Goldbelt Heritage Foundation |
| Project Title: |
Creating Critical Tools for
Language Survival |
| Program Area: |
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$117,132 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a one year project
to acquire previously undocumented Tlingit language information through
consultations with fluent Elders. The project includes training instructors
and developing teaching materials that include the new information. |
| ACF Region: X |
State: Alaska |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Gulkana
Village Council |
| Project Title: |
Ahtna Athabascan Native
Language Preservation Project Design |
| Program Area: |
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$101,435 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a one year project
to develop a comprehensive plan for a language program that will preserve the
Ahtna Athabascan native language. This project includes consultations with
Tribal Elders for the development of a preliminary language curriculum. |
| ACF Region: X |
State: Alaska |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Native
Village of Afognak |
| Project Title: |
Kodiak Alutiiq Curriculum
Project |
| Program Area: |
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$114,848 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a one year project
to develop an early childhood Kodiak Sugpiaq/Alutiiq language curriculum.
Curriculum development involves Elders to insure that curriculum reflects
community values and traditions. |
| ACF Region: X |
State: Alaska |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Nuniwarmiut Piciryarata Tamaryalkuti, Inc |
| Project Title: |
Cu’pig Language Natural and
Cultural History |
| Program Area: |
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2007 - 9/29/2010 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$187,380 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to develop and implement a grade 4-12 Cu’pig cultural curriculum with
a focus on natural and cultural history. It will draw upon existing cultural resources to create classroom
texts and curriculum based on
Nuivak
Island and
Bearing
Sea
geography, natural history, and culture. |
| ACF Region: X |
State: Alaska |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Sitka Tribe of
Alaska |
| Project Title: |
Comprehensive Survey of the
Status of the Tlingit Language in
Stika,
Alaska |
| Program Area: |
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$70,858 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a one year project
in which the Stika Tribe of
Alaska in
conjunction with the Stika Native Education Program will conduct an
assessment of the Tlingit language in
Stika,
Alaska. This data will provide
a foundation for the planning of an effective language preservation program. |
| ACF Region: X |
State: Alaska |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Telida
Village Council |
| Project Title: |
Upper
Kuskokwim Athabascan Language
Plan |
| Program Area: |
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$99,700 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a one year project
to develop culturally relevant teaching models for the Upper Kuskokwim
Athabascan language. The project utilizes results from a previous language
assessment in conjunction with professional and community resources to
develop models. |
| ACF Region: X |
State: Alaska |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Yakutat Tlingit Tribe |
| Project Title: |
Promote the Survival and
Vitality of Native Languages |
| Program Area: |
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2007 - 9/29/2010 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$200,000 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to facilitate the transference of language skills from one generation
to another by simultaneously teaching language to children, youth, and
parents. This will be done through
integrated classes utilizing an Apprentice/Master program. |
| ACF Region: X |
State: Alaska |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Aleut Community of
St. Paul
Island
(Tribal Government) |
| Project Title: |
Development of
Environmental Ordinances and Cross-Jurisdictional Solutions on
St. Paul
Island |
| Program Area: |
Environmental Regulatory Enhancement |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2010 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$107,019 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
to develop four environmental ordinances. The project includes a community outreach and education program,
recruitment of a local committee to participate in developing the ordinances
and development of partnerships for cross-jurisdictional enforcement. |
| ACF Region: X |
State: Alaska |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida |
| Project Title: |
Southeast Alaskan
Environmental Training and Capacity Enhancement |
| Program Area: |
Environmental Regulatory Enhancement |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2010 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$146,543 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project to
plan and implement a training program which will increase member communities’
ability to manage their natural resources. Training topics will include National Environmental Protection Act
(NEPA), Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and other trainings as
identified by the communities. |
| ACF Region: X |
State: Alaska |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Sitka Tribe of
Alaska |
| Project Title: |
It’s Our Environment Too –
Engaging Tribal Youth in Environmental Management |
| Program Area: |
Environmental Regulatory Enhancement |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2010 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$184,175 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
to encourage better environmental stewardship and introduce the possibility
of environmental careers to its youth. The project includes development of three outdoor classrooms and an
annual schedule of activities at these classrooms, development of Public
Service Announcements (PSAs) on environmental stewardship and partnerships
with local experts who can provide information on environmental management,
legal issues, and employment issues. |
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| ACF Region: X |
State: Idaho |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Nez Perce Tribe |
| Project Title: |
Nimiipuu Language
Assessment Project |
| Program Area: |
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$100,000 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a one year project
to do a thorough assessment of the Nimiipuu language by developing, and
administering a language assessment tool. This project includes development
and use of a level of fluency instrument. |
| ACF Region: X |
State: Idaho |
| |
|
| Project Title: |
Remediation Planning for
Contamination On and Near Former Atlas E Missile Facility |
| Grantee Name: |
Coeur
D'Alene Tribe |
| Program Area: |
Environmental Mitigation |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$167,000 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a one year project
to characterize and complete a plan to address the contamination at the
former Fairchild Air Force Base Atlas E Missile Facility. |
| ACF Region: X |
State: Idaho |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Coeur
d'Alene Tribe |
| Project Title: |
Coeur d ’Alene Tribe Stqhesiple’ Land Tenure Recovery Project. |
| Program Area: |
Enivronmental Regulatory Enhancement |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$85,260 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a one year project
to develop a land tenure strategy to identify methods, concepts and policy
initiatives to overcome institutional and jurisdictional barriers to
effective Tribal control of future development on the
Coeur d’Alene Reservation. |
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| ACF Region: X |
State: Oregon |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians of
Oregon |
| Project Title: |
Tribal Central Information
System (TCIS) |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2007 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$346,172 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
to establish and implement a technology management information system to
assist with effective and efficient administration of the Siletz Tribe. The data management system will enable cost
effective day to day tribal operations and will provide quantitative and
qualitative data. |
| ACF Region: X |
State: Oregon |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of
Oregon |
| Project Title: |
Museum Planning and Design
Project |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2007 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$166,972 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
to preserve Tribal culture and capacity through museum site planning,
schematic design, collections preservation and artisan classes. |
| ACF Region: X |
State: Oregon |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian
Reservation |
| Project Title: |
Coyote Business Part Master
Development Plan |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2007 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$148,968 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
to strengthen the Private Sector by increasing the number of individual
tribally-owned, tribal government owned, and select non-tribally owned
businesses operating at
Coyote
Business
Park. Tribal law amendments will be completed to
effectively market
Coyote
Business
Park. |
| ACF Region: X |
State: Oregon |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Native American Youth and
Family
Center |
| Project Title: |
Life Skills Development
& Economic Security Project for Native Americans |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2011 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$368,391 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to provide low income and unskilled American Indian and Alaska Native
youth and adults with opportunities to build assets to reduce poverty,
prepare for lifelong learning, financial security and improve the economy of
the region. The project will provide
comprehensive participant assessments, training in individualized goal setting,
financial education classes, and resolution of housing and employment
issues. Participants that complete the
project activities and are eligible will be enrolled in Individual
Development Accounts. |
| ACF Region: X |
State: Oregon |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Native Wellness Institute |
| Project Title: |
All Native Training Project |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2010 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$434,443 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
to develop culturally relevant curricula that can improve skills, abilities
and practices within participating tribal communities. This will provide
culturally relevant, wellness-focused training and skill building in areas of
adult leadership, youth leadership, staff development and improved life
skills. |
| ACF Region: X |
State: Oregon |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians |
| Project Title: |
Siletz Tribal Language
Project |
| Program Area: |
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2010 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$150,000 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
to develop curriculum and media tools for online teaching for head start
through the fifth grade. The project
will also submit the curriculum developed to
Oregon
State for use in he
Siletz
Valley
Charter
School |
| ACF Region: X |
State: Oregon |
| |
|
| Grantee Name: |
Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of
Or |
| Project Title: |
Kindergarten in Chinuk
“Kindergarten Focus Plus Preschool & Elementary After School” |
| Program Area: |
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2011 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$214,470 |
| |
|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to provide kindergarten in Chinuk and pilot new curriculum, building
the capacity of the Tribe’s Chinuk Language Immersion program by developing
additional K-5 curriculum focusing on the local environment and associated
cultures of the Grand Ronde Tribes. This project will provide Chinuk Wawa language immersion instruction
to at least 15 kindergarten students to reach Chinuk Wawa proficiency level 2
and 30 after school students to reach level 1. This project will extend the capacity of
the Chinuk immersion efforts in Grande Ronde for the benefit of the youth,
elders, community and the world at large. |
| ACF Region: X |
State: Oregon |
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| Grantee Name: |
Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian
Reservation |
| Project Title: |
Sustainable Groundwater
Development and Management |
| Program Area: |
Environmental Regulatory Enhancement |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2007 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$61,013 |
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|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
to collect and analyze groundwater data to understand localized groundwater
flows and impacts on surface water supplies. This data will inform management efforts to conserve groundwater, the
streams to which groundwater discharges and the fish, wildlife, and plants
supported by groundwater. Current
environmental regulations will be reviewed and considered for revisions based
on data analysis. |
| ACF Region: X |
State: Oregon |
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| Grantee Name: |
Coquille Tribe |
| Project Title: |
Coquille
Forest
Environmental
Management
Capacity
Building
Project |
| Program Area: |
Environmental Regulatory Enhancement |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2011 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$199,170 |
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|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to develop the organizational capacity of the Tribe to effectively
and efficiently meet the environmental and biological monitoring and
reporting requirements of the Coquille Forest Act. Equipment purchases and new data collection
protocols will help the grantee to establish a baseline for water quality and
timber quality and growth patterns. A
community outreach component is included to disseminate results. |
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| ACF Region: X |
State: Washington |
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|
| Grantee Name: |
Council for Tribal Employment Rights |
| Project Title: |
Model Tribal Workforce
Protection Act |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2007 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$200,123 |
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|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
to develop and expand model tribal ordinances to ensure similar workforce
rights as provided by states and local governments; update two manuals; and conduct
a media awareness campaign on tribal workforce protection. |
| ACF Region: X |
State: Washington |
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|
| Grantee Name: |
Duwamish Tribal Services |
| Project Title: |
The Lekleh Path |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$70,125 |
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|
| Project Summary: |
This is a one year project
between the Duwamish Tribe and the
Seattle
School District. This project is an ongoing educational
field trip program centered in the Duwamish Longhouse and
Cultural
Center
that will provide significant benefit for urban Native American youth in the
city of
Seattle. This program will build self-esteem,
self-respect and an appreciation for a healthy life style for native urban
youth. |
| ACF Region: X |
State: Washington |
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|
| Grantee Name: |
Nooksack Indian Tribe |
| Project Title: |
Nooksack
Indian
Tribe
Governance
Capacity
Building through GIS Mapping of Lands |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2007 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$325,064 |
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|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
to establish and implement technology management systems to assist with
effective and efficient administration of Tribal government programs. A Mapping Division, within the Planning
Department, will be established to generate maps, and indefinitely maintain
maps as lands expand and develop. |
| ACF Region: X |
State: Washington |
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|
| Grantee Name: |
Swinomish Indian Tribal Community |
| Project Title: |
Swinomish Climate Change
Strategy Initiative |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2010 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$161,982 |
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|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
to develop a strategy to address impacts of climate change on the reservation
community. Data will be collected to
determine risk and vulnerability parameters. The results will be used to develop policy framework for preparedness
response strategies and a strategy guidebook. Finally, specific mitigation and adaptation actions will be identified
and published as a community action plan. |
| ACF Region: X |
State: Washington |
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|
| Grantee Name: |
United Indians of All Tribes Foundation |
| Project Title: |
United Indians Social and Economic Development Strategies Project |
| Program Area: |
Social and Economic Development Strategies |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$187,402 |
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|
| Project Summary: |
This is a one year project
designed to complete all remaining planning documents and processes needed to
construct the Northwest Native Canoe Center (NNCC). This includes the development of a business
plan and engendering comprehensive community engagement. |
| ACF Region: X |
State: Washington |
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|
| Grantee Name: |
Lummi Indian Business Council |
| Project Title: |
Lummi Nation Healthy
Marriages for Healthy Families |
| Program Area: |
Native American Healthy Marriage Initiative |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2006 - 9/29/20 - 9/29/2011 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$191,429 |
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|
| Project Summary: |
This is a five year project
to develop definitions of Healthy Marriage according to Lummi cultural
standards and will provide healthy marriage education to 40 couples per year.
A publicity campaign to increase public awareness of the benefits of healthy
marriage will also be mobilized. The project will also setup a Healthy
Marriage Support Network. |
| ACF Region: X |
State: Washington |
| Grantee Name: |
Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation |
| Project Title: |
Yakama Nation Ichishkin
Sinwit Project |
| Program Area: |
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2011 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$152,140 |
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|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to create four new speakers of the Ichishkin dialects to become
speakers and language teachers who are knowledgeable about their language and
traditions, and who maintain the virtues of respect, honor, and discipline
towards the Elders and within the family. |
| ACF Region: X |
State: Washington |
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|
| Grantee Name: |
Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation |
| Project Title: |
Chehalis Language Canoe
Project |
| Program Area: |
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2007 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$105,779 |
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|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
that will create a language program that incorporates language centered
activities to reintroduce the shovel-nosed canoe into Chehalis reservation
life for multigenerational learning. |
| ACF Region: X |
State: Washington |
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| Grantee Name: |
Kalispel Tribe of Indians |
| Project Title: |
Kalispel Language
Assessment and Planning |
| Program Area: |
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$64,000 |
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|
| Project Summary: |
This is a one year project
for the preservation and maintenance of the Kalispel language. The project
will produce a language assessment, create a language library and develop
community derived goals for language preservation. |
| ACF Region: X |
State: Washington |
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| Grantee Name: |
Makah Indian Tribe |
| Project Title: |
q^Iq^IdiDDaq Fluency and
Literacy Project |
| Program Area: |
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2010 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$146,504 |
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|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
to develop and test curriculum for the fourth through eighth grades. The project will also develop an Elementary
Makah Dictionary enhancing their ability to increase intergenerational use of
the Makah Language. |
| ACF Region: X |
State: Washington |
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|
| Grantee Name: |
Nooksack Indian Tribe |
| Project Title: |
Nooksack Indian tribe
Lhechelesem Revitalization Planning Project |
| Program Area: |
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$73,593 |
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|
| Project Summary: |
This is a one year project
to develop a teacher certification curriculum that will certify tribal
members to teach Lechelesem in Washington Public Schools. This project
includes the development of a K-6 curriculum that will be used in the teacher
certification program. |
| ACF Region: X |
State: Washington |
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|
| Grantee Name: |
Spokane Tribe of
Indians |
| Project Title: |
Spokane Tribal Language Project |
| Program Area: |
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2007 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$138,961 |
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|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
to create self-guided language based lesson plans for teachers and
students. The project will create and
maintain a web-site to support the training of two new language teachers. |
| ACF Region: X |
State: Washington |
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|
| Grantee Name: |
Lower Elwha Klallam
Tribe |
| Project Title: |
Establishing Baseline
Ecological Information on Roosevelt Elk to Improve the Regulatory Ability of
the
Lower Elwha Tribe |
| Program Area: |
Environmental Regulatory Enhancement |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2008 - 9/29/2011 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$166,855 |
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|
| Project Summary: |
This is a three year
project to gather baseline data on elk herds in the western portion of the
Olympic Game Management Unit (GMU) and the majority of the Pysht GMU. The baseline data will bolster the Tribe's
technical and program capacity by improving the Tribe's regulatory ability in
setting harvest regulations. More than
one method of data collection will be used to determine the most accurate and
cost-effective method for future data collection. |
| ACF Region: X |
State: Washington |
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| Grantee Name: |
Skokomish Indian Tribe |
| Project Title: |
Skokomish Tribe
Environmental Research Project |
| Program Area: |
Environmental Regulatory Enhancement |
| Start / End Date: |
9/30/2007 - 9/29/2009 |
| FY 2008 Amount: |
$148,219 |
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|
| Project Summary: |
This is a two year project
to conduct data collection and analysis from the
Skokomish
River and the
Hood
Canal
for the development of three new management plans, namely the Shellfish
Enhancement Plan, the Fisheries Enhancement Plan, and the Invasive Species
Management Plan. The plans will be
used to revise current Skokomish Indian Tribal codes thereby guiding
management of Tribal resources to reverse the degradation of fisheries and
increase future harvests. |
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