NATIVE-LED NONPROFIT LIST
Find a Native-led, Native-serving nonprofit to support! Organizations included are eligible to receive tax-deductible, charitable contributions in the U.S.
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Native Forward Scholars Fund
Throughout our 54-year history, Native Forward has empowered over 22,000 students from over 500 Tribes in all 50 states by providing scholarship dollars, support services and impactful programming for undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees. To inspire excellence with impact, we provide a holistic approach to fully support our student’s success. Our services and programming have been proven to result in a higher success rate for Native students. The national graduation rate for Native undergraduate students is 41%. The rate for Native Forward’s undergraduates is 69%. Our graduate students’ rate is a remarkable 95%. Native Forward will continue to be the premier national resource in funding and empowering continued generations of Native students across all sectors by meeting the unmet need of every Native student who has the desire to achieve their degree(s). Over $400 million has been invested into Native students via scholarship programs, support services and Native student-focused programming.
Native Governance Center
Native Governance Center is a Native-led nonprofit dedicated to assisting Native nations in strengthening their governance systems and capacity to exercise sovereignty. We serve grassroots Native changemakers, elected Tribal leaders, and the 23 Native nations that share geography with MN, ND, and SD. Our programming areas include Leadership Development, Community Engagement, and Tribal Governance Support.
Native Hawaiian Philanthropy
Native Hawaiian Philanthropy is an organization dedicated to improving the socio-economic conditions of native Hawaiians. NHPʻs approach to this is through racial and social justice advocacy, bridging native Hawaiian organizations to the philanthropic sector and develop long-term funding opportunities for NHP partners.
112 Pueo Drive, Kula, Hawaii 96790Native Healthcare Center
Native Healthcare Center is community oriented focusing on Native American culture, history while serving the health and mental health needs of our indigenous people
Mail Checks To: PO BOX 680608. Houston Texas 77268Native Land Conservancy
The Native Land Conservancy, Inc. (NLC) is the first Native American run land conservation group established east of the Mississippi and is now a National organization. We focus on perpetuating and preserving indigenous cultural lifeways through land rescue. Presently there are four tribal groups represented on our Board of Directors. The NLC is a national 501(c)3 which currently holds title to more than 150 acres, protects 811 acres through conservation restrictions, and 460 acres through cultural respect easements.
Post Office Box 974, Mashpee, MA 02649Native Lives Matter Coalition – No More MMIWR Great Lakes
We are Indigenous survivor led, grassroots advocacy coalition located in Twin Ports MN & WI Great Lakes area focused on:
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives.
Advocacy that promotes healing & justice, awareness leading to action, and actively address the social & environmental injustice impacting Indigenous, Tribal Peoples on Turtle Island
We stand in support and advocate with MMIW, MMWR families and victims of violence.
Native Professional Advancement Center
The Native Professional Advancement Center is a Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) program that serves New Mexico’s urban Native Americans. We provide work experience, classroom training assistance, and supportive services to help Natives in our communities to gain, retain, or advance in their employment and career goals. We strive to build on the resiliency of our Native communities by empowering individuals with access to financial assistance, workforce information, educational support systems, social services and resources, and job or internship opportunities.
Native Public Media
Found in 2004, Native Public Media (NPM) is a national center dedicated to advocating and providing support services to Indigenous radio and television broadcast stations. Broadcast facilities across the nation include: commercial, non-commercial, educational, full power, low power, FM, AM, analog, and digital stations. NPM’s mission to promote the self-determination of indigenous peoples through media access, story-telling, and ownership.
Indigenous radio and television stations play a vital role in promoting the safety, sovereignty, and stability of indigenous communities. These broadcast facilities provide vital information upon which Tribal citizens can make informed decisions. Stations share this information through storytelling, delivering critically important health information, hyperlocal news, civic engagement, and emergency communications for predominately rural and remote Tribal lands. Fifty-seven indigenous radio stations and three television stations benefit from NPM programs in regulatory compliance, self-governance, technical assistance, training, policymaking, and operations development.