NATIVE-LED NONPROFIT LIST
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Organizations included are Native-led, Native-serving, have U.S. charitable nonprofit status, and are eligible to receive tax-deductible charitable contributions.
188 published organizations for #GiveNative 2023 and Native Nonprofit Day 2024, with more to come! Have questions about the Focus Area, Location, and other filters? Visit the FAQ.
Ileihno Bopachemihn, Inc. dba Tribal Oak Tree Foster Family Agency
We serve American Indian and Alaska Native foster youth, ages 0-17 and any sibling set. We seek to ensure that cultural identities are preserved and valued, by offering a safe and secure home as a resource to promote adequate developmental growth that fosters cultural preservation. Tribal Oak Tree (TOT)Foster Family Agency Resource Families provide loving, nurturing homes with an emphasis on American Indian/ Alaska Native (AI/AN) culture, traditions, and customs for AI/AN youth who are in foster care. TOT has two office locations that provide services to San Diego, Sacramento, and the Surrounding counties.
Donate by Mail: 4616 El Camino Ave, Suite B, Sacramento, CA 95821ImagiNative Inc.
Our mission: Encouraging our youth to embrace their talent, creativity, and individuality, while strengthening a healthy well-being and cultural identity. We understand that our youth have many talents across the board and we host activities that highlight their skills and offer new experiences. Our latest, ongoing project is our youth magazine ROOTS, which was created to educate, showcase, and engage. This one-of-a-kind publication features Student Spotlights, an Art Gallery, Sports Shout Outs, Classroom Contest, Indigenous History, an Elders Corner, Indigenous Current Events, Health & Wellness and more. We aim to offer diverse reading materials to classrooms so our youth can see themselves reflected in all types of media.
Donate by Mail: 122 Lewis Rd, Lincoln, ND 58504Indigenous Justice Circle
The Indigenous Justice Circle addresses the unique stressors and risks faced by Native American girls, young women, and 2SLGBTQ+ at the intersection of race, gender, age, culture, and socio-economic status. We do this by (1) Addressing MMIWG by reducing the risks of walking between the Native and non-Native worlds. (2) Addressing invisibility, mistrust, racial misunderstanding through early life political and civic participation. (3) Strengthening Indigenous girls’ systems participation, access and influence by involving them in health structure transformation. (4) Providing trauma healing and cultural-spiritual support for justice-involved Native youth. (5) Acknowledging and addressing inter-generational trauma through culturally competent approaches.
Indigenous Lacrosse Alliance
Our mission is to expand access and opportunity for Indigenous communities to play lacrosse and improve the health and well-being of Indigenous youth. Our vision is for all Indigenous youth to have access to the traditional and modern sports of lacrosse and empower them to build healthy Indigenous communities.
Indigenous Language Institute
About Us
The Indigenous Language Institute (ILI) was founded in 1992 as a publicly supported 501(C)3 non-profit organization based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. ILI is a majority Native American and Indigenous led organization, with the Staff and Board of Directors representing nations from across North America.
Mission
The Indigenous Language Institute (ILI) provides vital language related services to Native American nations, tribes, and communities so that their individual identities, traditional wisdom and values pare passed on to future generations in their original languages.
Guiding Philosophy
There is urgency to revitalize Native languages as the small population of Elder speakers is rapidly declining. ILI is dedicated to assist communities to create speakers of the endangered languages that are USED in daily life by all generations.
Our Impact Areas
>Immersion Workshops
>Strategic Language Development Plans for Communities
>In-Community Workshops- Travel directly to indigenous & tribal communities
Indigenous Lifeways
To restore the health and balance for all people and our environment by utilizing traditional knowledge and wisdom, respectful land-based practices, ceremonies and a deep understanding of the dynamics and peoples of our communities.
Indigenous Lifeways is working to revitalize and preserve our native languages, traditions and cultures.
Indigenous Milk Medicine Collective
IMMC supports the brilliance of Indigenous parents, care givers, and communities in celebrating their Milk Medicine journeys to honor and strengthen self-determination.
Indigenous Milk Medicine is a first sacred food and sustainable food system that advances rematriation, public health, and ceremony.
IMMC envisions a world where Indigenous communities are transformed and uplifted with access to the tradition and knowledge of milk medicine.
IMMC hosts the annual Indigenous Milk Medicine Week.
Indigenous Roots & Reparation Foundation
The Indigenous Roots & Reparation Foundation (IRRF) is located in Washington State in the homelands of the p’squosa (Wenatchi) People. The mission of our Indigenous led organization is to preserve and promote Indigenous history, culture, traditions, and language through various educational and advocacy initiatives. We advocate against further degradation of the natural environment, including our surrounding rivers and forests and work to protect the resources that have sustained our Peoples since time immemorial. Our traditional foods are now threatened by commercial over harvesting, climate change, hydropower dams and large scale renewable energy projects. Our goals is to provide a space on our ancestral homelands for members of all tribes to practice cultural traditions, ceremony, and fellowship.