THRIVING WOMEN recognizes and nurtures women and girls’ inherent strength and capacity to create and design strategies for healing, leadership, intergenerational learning, and regenerating positive futures for their families, communities, Nations, and selves.

Thriving Women recognizes the targeting of Indigenous women and girls as a manifestation of ongoing colonization and the link between extractive industries and violence against Mother Earth. The program supports grassroots, Indigenous women–led and –serving initiatives that prevent and address gender-based oppression. Thriving Women invests in strategies that respond to the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit crisis; uplift matrilineal, culturally rooted health and wellness practices—including birthkeeping, healing, and the arts; strengthen and revive coming-of-age ceremonies; advance multigenerational leadership development; and restore women’s healing and well-being through food systems and land-based practices. Thriving Women advances gender and social justice through the following pathways:

• Birthkeeping, Motherhood, and Kinship
• Honoring the Rights of Mother Earth
• Reclaiming a World Without Violence Against Women, Girls, and Two-Spirits
• Women and Girls’ Cultural Vitality and Leadership

Due Date: Accepting proposals beginning February 2nd through March 2nd, 2026. The application portal closes at 11:59 pm PST.

Email questions to: grants@7genfund.org or to the Thriving Women Program Coordinator Mima Salas at msalas@7genfund.org

Applicable organizations must be Indigenous Women led. Additional eligibility guidelines:

• Created from within an Indigenous community and engages that community constituency in its planning, implementation, development, and objectives.
•  Led by and has decision-making directly vested in the people whose culture and community the project is centered and who are impacted by the initiative.
•  Designed to promote and enhance the language, culture, traditions, values, and lifeways of the Indigenous Peoples it serves.
• A non-profit with 501(c)3 tax exempt status; an SGF Affiliate Project; a project chartered by a federally-recognized tribal nation or has a certified 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor. Applicants from outside the United States may apply without U.S. tax exempt status.
•  In good standing with the SGF organization without outstanding issues or reports due.

Grant Award Range: Up to $50,000 (average grant award: $20,000 - $30,000)

Native Peoples’ organizations and projects are eligible to apply for one grant per calendar year.

If you are currently receiving grant support from the Seventh Generation Fund, please complete all previous grant reporting requirements before reapplying.

We do not support: non-Native organizations, scholarships, or religious missionizing efforts.