COMMUNITY VITALITY Strengthens Indigenous identity by revitalizing cultural lifeways, creativity, and connection with a focus on community organizing.

Community Vitality supports projects that are rooted in relationship to land, healing, cultural revitalization and knowledge sharing. The weaving of intergenerational kinships, honoring elder and youth relationships, and nurturing cultural transmission strategies is supported through this work. The following pathways amplify projects culturally grounded practices and social justice:

• Traditional Foodways bring vitality, food sovereignty, food security, and support for subsistence food strategies to our communities.
• Community-Based Healing rooted in traditional health and healing, community wellness and ceremonial practices.
• Language Revitalization and Creative Expression strengthens cultural identity and intergenerational learning and kinship; tribal language revitalization, communications, and fluency, creativity and arts development, and builds community cohesion.
• Traditional Wisdom and Cultural Knowledge Sharing practices which restore Indigenous identities, knowledge systems and practices, cultural mapping and curriculum development, and culturally rooted leadership development.

Due Dates: Accepting proposals on an ongoing basis through December 2, 2024

Email questions to: grants@7genfund.org

All applications must be submitted by Indigenous Peoples. Eligible applicants:

• Emerge from, are led by, and grounded in, the Indigenous Peoples served and who are most impacted by the issues, methods, and outcomes.
• Nurture and center the culture, language, traditional knowledge systems, and healthy lifeways of the Indigenous Peoples involved in the project.
• Have 80% or more Indigenous Peoples leadership at the Board of Directors or other decision-making entity, and have an Indigenous Executive Director or Project leaders, and Indigenous Peoples engaged throughout all aspects of the organization.
• Are a non-profit with 501(c)3 tax exempt status, a federally-recognized tribal nation project, have a fiscal sponsor or are a SGF Affiliate Project. If fiscally sponsored, the Seventh Generation Fund prioritizes applicants with Native or People of Color fiscal sponsoring organizations.
• Prioritizing community-based projects with budgets of <$500,000.
• Are in good standing with the Seventh Generation Fund without reports due or outstanding issues.

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

Seventh Generation Fund annually raises funds to grant out and has limited funds to distribute throughout different regions of the Indigenous World across our four program pathways. 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.

FLICKER FUND provides support to Crisis Impacted Indigenous Communities and Nations.

Embodying the fast flight and power of a flicker – a good medicine bird, Flicker Fund Program responds to already vulnerable and stressed Indigenous communities on the frontlines of climate caused crisis and emergencies. It responds to critical needs ranging from the diverse and varying impacts of the COVID-19 global pandemic and its rippling effects, to climate fires and drought, as well as other disasters that devastate Indigenous Peoples, communities and Nations and that impact their ability to live healthy, safe, and vibrant lives. The Flicker Fund implements its work through the following pathways to assure Indigenous families, clans, communities, and Nations not only survive, but can thrive:

• Basic And Urgent Health focusing on essential needs for wellness, sanitation and hygiene of the most vulnerable with a focus on elders, multi-generational households and families with children under the age of five years old​.
• Traditional Healing Practices and Remedies supporting growing and cultivation of medicinal food systems, and culturally-relevant strategies for immune support.​
• Historic and Cultural Teachings including – as appropriate - the sharing of prophecies, stories, and lifeways that advance traditional knowledge systems informing community members on health, healing, survival and thriving strategies, and moving forward with vitality.​

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Email questions to: grants@7genfund.org

All applications must be submitted by Indigenous Peoples. Eligible applicants:

• Emerge from, are led by, and grounded in, the Indigenous Peoples served and who are most impacted by the issues, methods, and outcomes.
• Nurture and center the culture, language, traditional knowledge systems, and healthy lifeways of the Indigenous Peoples involved in the project.
• Have 80% or more Indigenous Peoples leadership at the Board of Directors or other decision-making entity, and have an Indigenous Executive Director or Project leaders, and Indigenous Peoples engaged throughout all aspects of the organization.
• Are a non-profit with 501(c)3 tax exempt status, a federally-recognized tribal nation project, have a fiscal sponsor or are a SGF Affiliate Project. If fiscally sponsored, the Seventh Generation Fund prioritizes applicants with Native or People of Color fiscal sponsoring organizations.
• Prioritizing community-based projects with budgets of <$500,000.
• Are in good standing with the Seventh Generation Fund without reports due or outstanding issues.

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

Due Date: Accepting proposals on an ongoing basis through December 2, 2024

Seventh Generation Fund annually raises funds to grant out and has limited funds to distribute throughout different regions of the Indigenous World across our four program pathways. 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.

LAND, WATER, AND CLIMATE recognizes and supports Indigenous Peoples’ traditional relationships and responsibilities to land, community, and spirit.

Land, Water, and Climate supports Indigenous Peoples’ traditional land and water stewardship and life systems practices; protects the integrity of sacred places, and the continuity of Life. It supports actions for land defense and water protection; advances Indigenous Peoples’ right of Free, Prior and Informed Consent; advocacy and direct-action strategies against Ecocide and Aquacide; supports frontline, education, and policy initiatives protecting sacred sites; and the development of community-led renewable energies, and climate change initiatives and adaptation projects rooted in cultural values. The Land, Water, and Climate Program implements its work through the following pathways for ecological justice to assure the sacred birthright of future generations:

• Sacred Places and Sacred Relationships
• Climate Action for Future Generations
• Land Back - Water Back
• Renewable Energies

Apply by: 

Email questions to: grants@7genfund.org

All applications must be submitted by Indigenous Peoples. Eligible applicants:

• Emerge from, are led by, and grounded in, the Indigenous Peoples served and who are most impacted by the issues, methods, and outcomes.
• Nurture and center the culture, language, traditional knowledge systems, and healthy lifeways of the Indigenous Peoples involved in the project.
• Have 80% or more Indigenous Peoples leadership at the Board of Directors or other decision-making entity, and have an Indigenous Executive Director or Project leaders, and Indigenous Peoples engaged throughout all aspects of the organization.
• Are a non-profit with 501(c)3 tax exempt status, a federally-recognized tribal nation project, have a fiscal sponsor or are a SGF Affiliate Project. If fiscally sponsored, the Seventh Generation Fund prioritizes applicants with Native or People of Color fiscal sponsoring organizations.
• Prioritizing community-based projects with budgets of <$500,000.
• Are in good standing with the Seventh Generation Fund without reports due or outstanding issues.

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

Due Date: Accepting proposals on an ongoing basis through December 2, 2024

Seventh Generation Fund annually raises funds to grant out and has limited funds to distribute throughout different regions of the Indigenous World across our four program pathways. 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.

THRIVING WOMEN recognizes Indigenous women and girls’ inherent strength and capacity for healing, leadership, and regenerating positive futures.

Thriving Women centers and uplifts Indigenous women’s leadership and strategies to reclaim traditional matrilineal lifeways that have sustained and built nations since time immemorial. It 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 to prevent and remedy gender oppression including strategies addressing Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two Spirit Relatives; uplifts matrilineal centered traditional health and wellness practices (birthkeeping, healing, arts, etc.), bolsters coming-of-age ceremonies; advances multi-generational leadership development, and revives women’s healing and well-being through food systems and land-based practices. Thriving Women is implemented through the following pathways for gender and social justice:

• 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 on an ongoing basis through December 2, 2024

Email questions to: grants@7genfund.org

All applications must be submitted by Indigenous Peoples. Eligible applicants:

• Emerge from, are led by, and grounded in, the Indigenous Peoples served and who are most impacted by the issues, methods, and outcomes.
• Nurture and center the culture, language, traditional knowledge systems, and healthy lifeways of the Indigenous Peoples involved in the project.
• Have 80% or more Indigenous women-identified Board of Directors, and an Indigenous woman Executive Director or Project leaders.
• Are a non-profit with 501(c)3 tax exempt status, a federally-recognized tribal nation project, have a fiscal sponsor or are a SGF Affiliate Project. If fiscally sponsored, the Seventh Generation Fund prioritizes applicants with Native or People of Color fiscal sponsoring organizations.
• Prioritizing community-based projects with budgets of <$500,000.
• Are in good standing with the Seventh Generation Fund without reports due or outstanding issues.

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

Seventh Generation Fund annually raises funds to grant out and has limited funds to distribute throughout different regions of the Indigenous World across our four program pathways. 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.