Honoring Our Own People                                                                             NEWS Archives - Apr 04

Native American Sharing

Apr

Agua Caliente Band distributes more than $1 million to agencies and nonprofits, CA

Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Partner to Sponsor Workshop, MT

Fort McDowell tribe has given two grants, together totaling more than $660,000 to Northern Arizona University, AZ

Morongo Band of Mission Indians to be Honored as Community Heroes by American Red Cross - Cited for Their 'Monumental' Role During Wildfire Crisis, CA

Oneida Nation offers City of Oneida $100,000, NY

The Southern Ute Indian Tribe and the Sky Ute Casino Grant Applications Available: Tribe makes $20K donation for Local Nonprofits to Support Nonprofit Activities, CO

Tulalip Tribes' Charitable Foundation Awards $300,600 in Grants, WA

Opportunities to Participate

Apr

Stop Use of Native American "Mascots" by University of Illinios

Apr 30 "Ghost Dance" opens at James Lowe Theater in Santa Fe, NM

May

Stop Use of Native American "Mascots" by University of Illinios

May 1-2 "Ghost Dance" at James Lowe Theater in Santa Fe, NM

May 4 National Council of Urban Indian Health (NCUIH) 5th Anniversary Gala with Drew Lacapa, Ulali, Charlie Hill and Other Special Guests, Arlington, VA

May 6 The Southern Ute Indian Tribe and the Sky Ute Casino Grant Applications Available: Inviting Local Nonprofits to Grab $20K in Money Booth Cash to Support Nonprofit Activities, CO

Jun

Jun 14-18 ANISHINAABE WAY YOUTH GATHERING, WI

Jun 17 Native American Rally Successful: Call for Help on June 17th Issued by NAES, Chicago, IL

Aug

NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND: Art Auction to Benefit Indian Legal Defense Fund, CO

Opportunities to Give

Lori Piestewa Memorial Fund (Hopi Tribe)

Lori Piestewa Memorial Scholarship Fund (Hopi Foundation)

Opportunities to Receive

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Apr 26 04
Army depot will honor distinguished American Indian soldier
Geralda Miller, RENO Gazette-Journal, CA
The new headquarters at the Sierra Army Depot in Herlong, Calif., will be dedicated Tuesday to the most decorated and highest-ranking American Indian to serve in World War II, recognition his family says is long overdue.
Army Lt. Col. Leonard Lowry, a member of the Maidu tribe who grew up in Susanville, Calif., served in World War II, Korea and Vietnam, where he earned five Purple Heart medals, the Distinguished Service Cross and two Silver Stars. The 79 year-old died of cancer Aug. 17, 1999.

Apr 24 04
Analysis: Supreme Court ruling benefits tribes
by: Jerry Reynolds / Washington D.C. correspondent / Indian Country Today
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on April 19 that Congress can enlarge the powers of self-government exercised by tribes...


Apr 23 04

Deadline: Montana - Sun4Communities Grant Applications

NorthWestern Energy is recruiting ten Montana communities to participate in its new Sun4Communities project. The Sun4Communities project enables secondary schools and city and county government buildings to qualify for free solar energy systems.

Sun4Communities is an expansion of NorthWestern Energy's popular Sun4Schools project, which installed photovoltaic (solar electric) systems on 27 middle and high schools in Montana between 1999 and 2003. Sun4Communities draws on the strengths and popularity of that project but adds city- and county-owned buildings, such as local government, courthouses, and libraries to the eligible types of buildings. Middle and high schools are still eligible to participate.

ThreeHoops note:

Grant information contact Cathy Svejkovsky confirms that:

Tribal Nation governments that house one of the entities below:
Middle schools or high schools
Tribal government buildings
Tribal courthouses
Or
Tribal College libraries open to the general public

Would qualify for this grant application IF the building receives it's energy from NorthWestern Energy.  More info direct

Apr 22 04

Komen Foundation awards $218 in grants

by Jerry Seibenmark, Wichita Business Journal, KS

Apr 21 04

Participate: Stop Use of Native American "Mascots" by University of Illinios

by Leonard Malatare, NAES College, IL

"Hay ya all, if you don't like this letter feel free to write one of your own, but the idea is, is to get a letter in the mail box by Wednesday morning, April 21st. And let everyone you know will to also drop a letter in the box as well.  Lets make some noise beginning on April 14th!"  Download sample letter here.  For other ways to help contact: Leonard Malatare, NAES College, Chicago

Burke chasing challenge
By Blythe Lawrence, The Daily, WA
Burke Museum learned in November that it had been awarded a $300,000 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Challenge Grant. However, there is a catch.
In order to receive the $300,000, the Burke must raise four times that amount by the fall of 2007. "It really is a challenge -- they named it properly," said Robin Wright, a professor of art history and the Burke's curator of American Indian art. The state's premier natural-history museum will use the money to create an endowed research fund for the Bill Holm Center for the Study of Northwest Coast Art. The Burke was one of only two cultural museums in the country to receive the grant.
ThreeHoops note: Funding indirect (federal grant to nonnative entity) benefit indirect

Apr 20 04

Morongo Band of Mission Indians to be Honored as Community Heroes by American Red Cross - Cited for Their 'Monumental' Role During Wildfire Crisis

Source: American Red Cross, as seen at www.pechanga.net

RIVERSIDE, Calif., April 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The Morongo Band of Mission Indians will be honored by the Riverside County Chapter of American Red Cross for their generosity and spirit of giving at the 4th Annual Taste of Italia event, set for Wednesday evening, April 21, 2004.

The Riverside County Chapter of the American Red Cross is recognizing the Morongo Band of Mission Indians for their unprecedented gift of $1,000,000, the largest charitable gift in the tribe's history. In addition to their financial support, the Morongo tribe is being recognized as a "Community Hero" for their generosity and financial support of note-worthy charitable organizations throughout southern California. Tribal chairman Maurice Lyons, tribal council members and tribal members will be attending. The $1 million gift is also the largest charitable gift ever received by the Riverside County Chapter of the American Red Cross since chartered in 1917.

The Morongo Band of Mission Indians has given to the Riverside County Chapter of the American Red Cross twice prior to the presentation of the million-dollar gift. A mass-care and feeding vehicle underwritten by the tribe is used during disaster s to provide mobile care and on-site feeding. The vehicle is used on a daily basis throughout Riverside County when responding to emergencies. Following September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the tribe donated money to the Riverside chapter to underwrite the cost of sending 25 Red Cross disaster workers to New York, Washington and Pennsylvania. "The Morongo tribe has also been generous in providing support throughout the region," said Anderson. "Gifts of financial and in-kind support by the tribe are given to hundreds of non-profit and charitable groups annually including organizations like Shelter from the Storm for Battered Women; Child Help USA, Cabazon Volunteer Fire Department; Sun Lakes Charities, Walter's Children's Charity Classic; Big Brothers/Big Sisters, AIDS Assistance Program, City of Banning, City of Beaumont, Los Angeles Mission; Little Leagues, and the YMCA. We are very proud to honor them for their generosity and commitment to their neighboring communities."

ThreeHoops note: For more info on the generosity of Tribal Nations to 9/11 efforts see

HOOP Research; For more info on current Tribal Nation charitable giving activities see HOOPhilanthropy

Tribes prepare to go to war over budget cuts
"I welcome the opportunity to tell our story."
WASHINGTON DC, Sam Lewin 4/19/2004, NativeTimes.com, as seen at www.pechanga.net
Fed up with a continuing pattern of cuts to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, prominent Indian leaders have come up with their own plan. BIA Assistant Secretary Dave Anderson said in March that BIA programs would be slashed 2.4% in the next fiscal year, which is actually a 3.6 % cut when inflation is factored in. The cuts amount to $78 million. It is the seventh straight year the BIA has been earmarked for less money compared to the previous year. Officials say school construction, scholarships, early childhood education and tribal colleges take the biggest hit...

ThreeHoops note: For more info on #'s of federal grants not available at all for Tribal Nation application scroll to the bottom of this page, or scroll to the bottom of the pages at the HOOPeople News Archives

Congress Announces Water System Bucks
WASHINGTON - A bipartisan group of senators has joined U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman in calling on a key senate committee to increase funding to help continue a program he created to make basic infrastructure improvements and support economic development efforts in Indian Country. Bingaman is the author of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Community Advancement Program (RCAP), which provides grants to tribal communities for drinking water and wastewater disposal; community facilities grants for tribal college buildings; business development loans and grants. However, each year water and wastewater funds are exhausted before the fiscal year is over. To prevent this situation from repeating Bingaman is requesting a boost of $28 million for 2005 from $24 million set aside 2004 for these grant programs. In a letter to Senator Robert Bennett, Chairman of the Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee and ranking member Senator Herb Kohl, Bingaman stressed the important role these funds play in community development projects in Indian Country. "Safe drinking water and wastewater systems are essential for good public health and quality of life. Because so many Indian communities currently lack basic water and sewer systems, the funds for drinking water and wastewater disposal systems within this set-aside remain in great demand. The USDA-Rural Development agency has done a good job of awarding all available funds to the highest scoring projects in eligible communities, the majority of which have very limited resources," Bingaman wrote.

Apr 19 04

American Indian College Fund Names 2004 Students of the Year

DENVER, April 16, 2004 - Thirty-four American Indian students have been named 2004 Students of the Year by the American Indian College Fund, the nation's largest private provider of funding for scholarships to America's 34 tribal colleges.

The students were selected to receive $1,000 scholarships based on their community service and academic achievement. The Castle Rock Foundation funds the annual award.

Bank of America Grants $3,500 to Nevada Urban Indians
Las Vegas, NV - Press Release/PRNewsWire

Apr 16 04

Rebirth of a nation
By AMANDA PENNELLY, PortlandTribune.com, OR

Kathryn Harrison is a small woman. Just under 5 feet tall, she surveys an equally unassuming plot of land - a 3-acre ancestral cemetery that was, for a quarter of the last century, all that remained of the once-69,000-acre Grand Ronde American Indian reservation.
But meager dimensions have never been a deterrent for Harrison, a single mother of 10 who spent the better part of the 1970s and 1980s lobbying in Washington, D.C., for federal restoration of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde. In the 1950s, the Grand Ronde was among the 109 American Indian tribes and bands whose tribal status was terminated by the federal government in an effort to assimilate them into white America...

(Since restoration of it's federal recognition status) ... The tribe also has enjoyed a relatively positive relationship with the community around it. Through the Spirit Mountain Community Fund - which was created in a 1997 state compact, or contract, that allocates 6 percent of the tribe's gaming revenue to charities in exchange for expanded gaming - the tribe has given more than $20 million in high-profile donations to nonprofit groups in the last seven years.

Potawatomis break ground on Cultural Heritage Center

News-Star.com, OK
The Citizen Potawatomi Nation broke ground for a new, 30,000-square-foot Cultural Heritage Center on the former site of the Nation's government offices and museum, 1901 Gordon Cooper Dr.  CPN elected leaders have committed significant tribal resources to creating a centrally located facility for the tribe's cultural resources to converge...

Cobell v. Norton: Excerpt from list-serve at www.indiantrust.com

What we have sought from the outset is a full and complete accounting of what the federal government did with our monies and our lands from the inception of the Individual Indian Trust in 1887. This is the basic, absolute legal right every trust beneficiary has in America – whether Indian or non-Indian. All trustees, including the government, the smallest trust company in Montana, and the largest trust company on Wall Street, are governed by the same standard. The Secretary of the Interior, who is responsible for the management of the Indian trust, is not free to continue to behave badly and otherwise act against your interests as a trust beneficiary. We have asked for a full accounting of our trust funds and trust lands. That right has been confirmed by federal courts. We have asked that the government fix its broken trust management system – something every trust beneficiary has a right to expect.

We know from numerous studies dating back to the inception of the trust that the government did not handle our trust monies and our trust lands properly. The government has admitted this in court. Not once, but repeatedly. And the courts have agreed with us.

You can help us continue this fight. Urge your members of Congress to tell the Bush administration to negotiate in good faith with us, especially since we have agreed on two highly-qualified mediators. Tell them not to continue to harm Native people by attempting to break up the class by peeling off small groups of Indians for settlements of pennies on the dollar.

There is another important point. Do not fall for the argument that some are making that any settlement will force the government to curtail spending on existing Indian programs. Judge Lamberth has made it pointedly clear that the government must not do that. Most members of Congress from Indian Country also agree that Indian people should not be punished because they want only what is theirs -- their trust money!

The government has a special fund that can fund any final settlement of our lawsuit. It is the “judgment fund.” It was created to fund the payment of money that a court has decided the government owes, including trust funds. Therefore, no money must be taken from Indian programs to settle our case.

Sen. John McCain of Arizona has said many times that if this were any other group other than American Indians, the national government would have resolved this issue years ago.

That’s why we must be united, why we must stand together to have this issue resolve for the good of all Indian people and the good of America. You can follow the latest details of our case at our website: www.indiantrust.com.

Remember, we are doing this for our ancestors, our children, our grandchildren and us.

It is our money, after all. The government has stolen it long enough.

American Indian Leader Urges Noise During Quiet Crisis in New Mexico

By Brenda Norrell, Indian Country Today, Oneida, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Apr. 14 - ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Tex Hall, president of the National Congress of American Indians, addressed the National Indian Gaming Association's 13th Annual Convention and urged defeat of the nomination of William Myers to serve on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Hall also urged American Indians to get out and vote in record numbers in the next election and ensure the future well being of Indian country.

"Myers most recently served as the Interior Department's Solicitor where he advocated the rollback of protection for Native American sacred sites on public lands. These lands are central to the free exercise of religion for many of our Native American people," Hall told NIGA on April 5.

Hall said when Myers served as solicitor he decided to reverse a prior decision and open the way for a gold mine that would destroy several Quechan Nation's sacred sites.

"This is just in California. Think of the damage Myers could do as a lifetime federal judge for the appeals court that oversees nine Western states containing more Indian reservations than any other circuit."...

Praising NIGA for its accomplishments in serving Indian country, Hall said this is a special year for him, and for the National Congress of American Indians.

"It was 60 years ago that NCAI was founded in 1944 in Denver by 80 Indian men and women from a wide range of tribal backgrounds who felt they had to fight the new termination and old assimilation policies of the federal government," he said...

New Issue: Foundation Center's RFP Bulletin

Apr 15 04

Powerful Powwow
NAU powwow attracts tribes from across the nation, gains Native American recognition
by Lucas Holub, Lumberjack Online, AZ

They came from Saskatchewan, the Great Plains, the Southwest and even the mythic city of Azatlan to learn and grow with one another. They came to sing, pray and dance. They came to be heard...NAU has been rewarded for its attention to American Indian advancement. Trosper said the Fort McDowell tribe has given two grants, together totaling more than $660,000, and the Wells Fargo National Bank grant was used to build a hogan, provided internship opportunities and brought a Native elder to NAU to assist in teaching a course in traditional culture.

Billy said the relationship between the native community and NAU is mutually beneficial...

The Institute of American Indian Arts is pleased to announce its first Summer Film and Television Workshop

Co-sponsored by the ABC Entertainment Television Group Talent Development Programs, the workshop will on the IAIA campus in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The six-week workshop will offer a unique curriculum which focuses on producing, writing, directing, and acting utilizing a unique mentoring program. Additional funding is being provided by the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian.

Apr 14 04

Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Partner to Sponsor Workshop

Business Digest, Billings Gazette, MT

Land managers, contractors and firefighters from Montana and Idaho will learn more about the use of alternative industrial mechanized equipment for fire suppression, forest management and fuels reduction at a free two-day workshop on the Flathead Indian Reservation. The "Big Iron Workshop" will be held April 14 and 15.

The workshop is sponsored by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes in partnership with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Montana DNRC, Plum Creek Timber Co., Montana Logging Association, Northern Rockies Training Center, USDA Forest Service and the Society of American Foresters...

Participate: Stop Use of Native American "Mascots" by University of Illinios

by Leonard Malatare, NAES College, IL

"Hay ya all, if you don't like this letter feel free to write one of your own, but the idea is, is to get a letter in the mail box by Wednesday morning, April 14th. And let everyone you know will to also drop a letter in the box as well.  Lets make some noise beginning on April 14th!"  Download sample letter here.  For other ways to help contact: Leonard Malatare, NAES College, Chicago

ThreeHoops note:

We're looking for Native American nonprofits or Tribal Nations in the San Francisco Bay Area or the New York City area that are interested in technology grants.  If you'd like to recommend a Tribal Nation contact, or a contact from a community-based (non-intermediary) Native American nonprofit, please email wlord@threehoops.com

Participate: Register for ANISHINAABE WAY YOUTH GATHERING

by Maryellen Baker, Abiinookiaki, WI

For more info contact: Maryellen Baker, Abiinoojiaki or check out www.abiinoojiaki.org

Apr 12 04

Changing face of Cow Creek

by Stacy D. Stumbo, The News-Review, OR

Every winter, after the first snow fell on Tiller, a man in his 90s would take off his shoes and run in circles around his log cabin with arms raised.

Jean Baptist "Tom" Rondeau had witnessed the end of the fur trade and tried to create a life on the South Umpqua River in the aftermath of the Rogue River Indian Wars. He supported a wife and 16 children, including three sets of twins. He understood poverty and racism. An American Indian in a time when westerners saw them as disposable, Rondeau fought for compensation from the federal government.

He never saw a dime. He watched powerlessly as the Roseburg office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs closed under suspicion of embezzlement, while he and his family struggled to survive.

Today, his descendants help comprise the 1,300-member Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians, one of the wealthiest tribes in Oregon and the only recognized group without a reservation...

New Issue: American Indian Center, Chicago e-events

Apr 11 04

Citizen Potawatomi Nation dedicates new child development center

Shawnee News-Star Online, OK

as seen at www.pechanga.net

Apr 09 04

Tribe donates to 71 desert agencies

By Dennis A. Britton, The Desert Sun, CA
RANCHO MIRAGE -- In a little more than 90 minutes Friday, the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians handed out $1 million to 71 recipients from throughout the valley. "We are proud to be able to contribute back to the community in this way," said Tribal Chairman Richard Milanovich. "Giving back helps show we are fully a part of the community." In the past nine years, the tribe has given $7.6 million primarily to groups serving youth, seniors and public safety agencies, according to Milanovich...

City urged to address American Indian housing needs
by Pat Faherty, Budgeteer News, MN

as seen at www.pechanga.net

The Duluth American Indian Commission is urging the city to create a special work group to address housing needs. The effort is the result of a needs assessment report entitled "Anishinabe abi in Duluth" by the Wilder Research Center. The study, completed in December 2003, took about a year and was based on 100 interviews of American Indians in Duluth.
The report found that only 23 percent of American Indian households own their homes and that approximately a third of the homeless in St. Louis County are American Indians.
It also found that Duluth's American Indian population is the city's largest "community of color" ...

New Issue: Foundation Center's RFP Bulletin

Apr 06 04

PMI Affirms Support for National American Indian Housing Council
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 6, 2004--The PMI Foundation (NYSE:PMI) announced that it will enhance its commitment to provide financial support for the National American Indian Housing Council (NAIHC). As part of its enhanced commitment to NAIHC, The PMI Foundation is supporting NAIHC and its "Housing First for First Americans" initiative with a $60,000 grant over the course of the next four years.

The PMI Foundation's contribution will help promote homeownership through educational seminars and consumer tools; establishing classroom workshops and on-site financial assistance techniques; and strengthening the concerted effort to work more closely with lenders, intermediaries and vendors...

Apr 05 04

Supporters of Native-oriented school programs ask for direct district help

By ERIC FRY, JUNEAU EMPIRE, AK

Some parents and educators would like to see two successful Native-oriented programs have secure funding and reach more students in the Juneau School District.

An elementary-school program that emphasizes Tlingit language and culture and a program that steers Native high school students toward college have proven their worth, an ad hoc group says. "Basically, we would like to see the school district embrace these and integrate them into their budget," ...

Oneida Nation offers City of Oneida $100,000

By:MIKE ACKERMAN , Dispatch Staff Writer, NY

According to Mayor Leo Matzke, the offering from the Nation is not a Silver Covenant Grant, but a "friendship gift" for the purpose of fostering a new beginning of mutual friendship between the city and the Nation. "This is history in the making," said Matzke on Friday. "Our Native American Committee has worked hard to build a relationship with the Nation and they have unanimously supported this and now it will be forwarded to the common council." ...

Accuses Bush administration of allowing energy companies to pay Indians far less than non-Indians; administration pursued Balaran’s recusal to cover up conflicts of interest and evade liability in Cobell in the “billions of dollars”

Cobell vs. Norton Indian Trust Case

Indian Trust List Serv, http://indiantrust.com, MT

WASHINGTON, DC (April 6, 2004) – With a stinging rebuke of the Bush administration and the U.S. Department of the Interior, respected Washington D.C. attorney Alan Balaran resigned as Special Master in the Cobell v. Norton Indian Trust case, stating that the administration has been pursuing his recusal to silence criticisms of the Department of Interior’s handling of individual Indian trust accounts.

Balaran cites findings made in the course of his investigation that the Bush administration knowingly allowed energy companies to pay Indians far less than non-Indians for oil, gas and other leases. Balaran states that this conflict of interest is the reason the administration has refused to settle the case—instead seeking repeatedly to have Balaran recused as Special Master and delaying a final resolution of the matter...

New Issue: American Indian Center, Chicago e-events

Apr 04 04

Three-day conference focuses on ways to better introduce Indian education issues into schools around the state
By JANE RIDER of the Missoulian, MT

In one of the dozens of small workshops under way at the 23rd Annual Indian Education Conference in Missoula on Friday, the teacher became the student and the lesson was to learn how to effectively teach about American Indians in the 21st century.
Participants were mostly American Indian educators, who already teach in schools at or near reservations across Montana, but the new curriculum in their hands - developed with the help of a grant from NASA - also promised to be easier for non-Indian instructors to use and adaptable to other cultural audiences...

Hearing focuses on ways to boost graduation rate for Indian students
By JANE RIDER of the Missoulian, MT

With an American Indian graduation rate just over 50 percent, what can the state's public schools do to help these students stay in school and graduate?...

National Museum of the American Indian to Open in Washington
Ted Landphair, Washington, Voice of America, Independent Federal Entity, DC
The first new museum to join the Smithsonian complex in 17 years will open its doors this coming September.

Apr 02 04

Activist will speak about sacred places

By Lana Meyer, Daily Staff Writer, IA

Holiday Inns and Wal-Marts aren't usually constructed over cemeteries. But for many American Indian cultures, instances of companies and roads built on top of sacred burial sites are fairly common...

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New Issue: Foundation Center's RFP Bulletin

Apr 01 04

Tulalip foundation awards $300,600 in grants

Snohomish County Business Journal, WA

The Tulalip Tribes' Charitable Foundation recently announced more than $300,600 in grants to local charities. Each quarter, the Tulalips disperse grants under its gambling compact with the state...

Apr: Opportunities to Receive

Foundations

Nationally, Foundation funding to Native Americans has remained at approximately 1/20th of 1% of all grants made over $10,000 for the last two decades.  Meanwhile, American Indian people have grown to 1.4% of the population.

Deadlines Apr 1 & Oct 1

Starbucks Foundation

Deadlines Multiple

Bank of America Foundation

CASA - Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children

PNC Charitable Trusts Committee, PA

Sparkplug Foundation, NY

The Susan G. Komen Fund
The Daniels Fund

The Recording Academy(R)

Verizon Foundation

Deadlines (Does not fund unsolicited proposals)

Hewlett Packard U.S. Philanthropy

For more information on Foundation grantmaking to Native American issues check out HOOPower

Federal

Federal funding to Native Americans has diminished from 1980 - 2000;

Over 24% of Native Americans in the United States live in poverty, the highest % in the U.S.

In Apr 04 at least 27/52 Opportunities are not clearly available to Native American Tribal Nations

• USDA: 1
• US DoC: 1
• US DoE: 3
• US DoED: 1
• US DoI: 2
• US DoL: 9
• US DoS: 1
• US HHS: 9

Apr Announcements

25/52 Application Opportunities (based on notices reviewed)

2 Targeted toward Tribal Nations (Federally Recognized)

0 Targeted toward Tribal Nations along with Hispanic and/or Historically Black Institutions

2 Targeted toward Tribal Colleges

19 Targeted toward states and/or others for which Tribes and/or NA Nonprofits may apply

2 Targeted either states or Tribal Nations (federally or state recognized)

0 Targeted toward Native American organization(s)

1 Targeted toward Small Businesses

Deadline

Multiple Deadlines

US EPA: Pollution Prevention Grants Program

US HHS: SMALL CLINICAL GRANTS IN DIGESTIVE DISEASES, NUTRITION AND OBESITY

Apr 13 (Deadline Extended from Mar 30) USDA: Tribal Colleges Education Equity Grants Program

May 03 US NEA: Visual Arts Touring

May 11

US DOL: Work Incentive Program to Enhance Service Delivery for Jobseekers with Disabilities through the National One-Stop Delivery System

US SBA: Program for Investment in Mircoenterprise Act

May 13 US HHS: Head Start Tribally Controlled Land Grant Colleges and Universities

May 14 US DOI: Mineral Resources External Research Program

May 17 US DOJ: COPS in Schools Grant Program

May 19 US DOI: Save America's Treasures

May 21 US DOE: Migrant Education Even Start Family Literacy Program

May 24

US DOI: Tribal Wildlife Grants

US DOI: Tribal Landowner Incentive Program

May 28

USDA: Conservation Innovation Grants

US EPA: Pollution Prevention Information Network Grant Program

Jun 1 US ED: Small Business Innovative Research Program (SBIR)

Jun 4

US EPA: Notice of Request for Applications for Initial Proposals to be Funded From the Indoor Air Quality Allocation

US HHS: Community Food and Nutrition Program

Jun 8 US HHS: Family Support Initiative 2004

Jun 11 US EPA: Notice of Request for Initial Proposals for the Region 7 Lead Education and Awareness Project in St. Louis, Missouri

Jun 21 US HHS: CDC Public Health Research: Health Protection Research Initiative, Centers of Excellence in Health Promotion Economics
Jun 22
US HHS: CDC Public Health Research: Health Protection Research Initiative, Mentored Research Scientist Development Award
US HHS: CDC Public Health Research: Health Protection Research Initiative, Investigator Initiated Research
Jun 15 US HHS: Substance Abuse Treatment and Reentry Services to Sentenced Juveniles and Young Adult Offenders Returning to the Community from the Correctional System

Sep 10 US HHS: Knowledge Dissemination Conference Grants

ThreeHoops note: Many grants opportunities are listed above. Unless one looks at the total amount of funding available, against the total possible grant recipients, an unclear picture can be given by these listings. 

Example: In April 04, A Dept of Interior, Tribal Landowner Incentive Program grant is available to an expected 25 grant recipients nationwide.  There are 562 federally recognized Tribal Nations in the United States.  Therefore this 'set aside' for Tribal Nations will leave more than 95% of all Tribal Nations unfunded if all grants are awarded to 25 distinct Tribal Nation entities as projected in the federal Grants Notice.

Last Updated: Feb 04 07