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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There are 250 published organizations with more to come!

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Vision Maker Media

Vision Maker Media’s mission is empowering and engaging Native people to share stories. We envision a world changed and healed by understanding Native stories and the public conversations they generate. We work with VMM funded producers to develop, produce and distribute programs for all public media. VMM supports training to increase the number of American Indians and Alaska Natives producing public broadcasting programs.

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VISIONARY VENTURES NFP CORPORATION

Visionary Ventures works with our Native American community leaders and members to advocate for affordable housing, economic development, services and jobs to help provide stability and enrich their lives.

Visionary Ventures is co-developing the first affordable housing for our Native American community in Chicago’s history. It is truly history in the making! We were promised housing 50 years ago and we are finally making it happen.

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Waadookodaading Ojibwe Language Institute

The Waadookodaading Ojibwe Language Institute utilizes the gift of the Ojibwe language as a means through which students and the community can achieve the ultimate goal of Indigenous survival and tribal sovereignty through realization of personal, family, cultural, spiritual, environmental, and educational goals.

The Institute began as the Waadookodaading Ojibwe Language Immersion School whose mission is to create proficient speakers of the Ojibwe language who are able to meet the challenges of our rapidly changing world. Although its current primary focus is K-12 education, it has evolved as a regional institution for Ojibwe language revitalization by creating immersion teachers and providing technical assistance to other language and immersion school programs in development throughout the nation.

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Wakan Tipi Awanyankapi

Wakan Tipi Awanyankapi (WTA) is a Native-Led cultural and environmental stewardship nonprofit in St. Paul, Minnesota that is centered in Dakota values. We advocate for and steward the Dakota sacred landscape, Wakan Tipi, which encompasses Wakan Tipi Cave, Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary, and Indian Mounds Cemetery. Our mission is to engage people to honor and care for our natural places and the sacred sites and cultural value within them. Our three program areas are Environmental Education, Urban Conservation & Restoration, and Cultural Connections & Healing.

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Waking Women Healing Institute

We are Indigenous women and LGBTQ+ survivors of violence who are working to create communities that are safe, equitable, and violence free. We serve indigenous women, girls, and native LGBTQ+ survivors of domestic and sexual violence, and families of MMIWP. We provide direct services as well as healing, prevention, and responses that are founded in our culture and in connection to land and language.

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Waub Ajijaak Press & Foundation

Overview – Waub Ajijaak Press & Foundation is a non-profit publisher and we support the Native American community through scholarships and philanthropy. Our focus is on Michigan, the Great Lakes, the Midwest, and the Anishinaabe Nation.

Mission – Soaring to new heights through education, advocacy, and empowerment for our Native American communities in the Great Lakes and beyond.

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We Are the Seeds

We Are the Seeds of CultureTrust celebrates and educates about contemporary Indigenous arts and cultures, creates expansive and holistic opportunities for Indigenous artists, and provides positive and accurate representation of Indigenous peoples.

As a Native-led organization, our priority is to serve the Indigenous community in the Northeast and design programming that reconciles gaps in representation of East Coast Indigenous artists and makers, affecting change on a national and global scale. We continually challenge Indigenous erasure and invisibility and create safe spaces to exist as we are: beautiful, thriving peoples with important histories and even stronger futures.

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Widoktadwen Center for Native Knowledge

Our mission is to promote the visibility of Native Americans in Berks County and beyond through community education, leadership, and activism.

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