Learn

Interested in learning more about Indigenous environmental justice and philanthropy? Here are a few great resources to get started:

• Learn which Indigenous peoples land you are currently living on

• Timeline: Explore this chronological timeline written by Dr. Karina Walters, containing historically traumatic events, settler colonial policies, and Native resistance movements (Candid/Native Americans in Philanthropy).

• Native Voices Rising is a research, donor education, re-granting, and capacity-building collaborative created and led by Common Counsel Foundation and Native Americans in Philanthropy. Native Voices Rising is designed to support organizing, advocacy and civic engagement in American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian communities.

  • A Case for Funding Native-led Change - Report 

• Indigenous Ways of Giving + Sharing: Indigenous-led Funds Landscape Scan Report by International Funders for Indigenous Peoples

• The Native Ways Federation (NWF) was founded in 2008 by a group of seven national Native-led nonprofit organizations to activate and expand informed giving to nonprofits in Indian Country through donor education and advocacy

• Native-led Grantmakers and Funds by Candid

• Philanthropy: Prioritize Native-Led Solutions by Carly Bad Heart Bull, JD

• 16 Calls to Action on Indigenous Peoples Day 2022! by Cultural Survival

• Indian Country 101: "The tribal member-owned consulting firm The Whitener Group (TWG) partnered with The Nature Conservancy’s (TNC) Washington State chapter to produce this labor of love training series." 

  • Indian Country 101 Additional Resources