Native Voices Rising
Native Voices Rising (Native Americans in Philanthropy / Common Counsel Foundation)
A participatory grantmaking fund whose awards are decided by all-Native grant recommendation committees, providing general operating support to Native-led organizing, advocacy and civic engagement groups.
- Indicative award
- Not a cash award (not a cash award)No award size published on the site; grants are described as general operating support.
- Timing
- Annual cycleNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.An annual RFP cycle. The 2026 cycle is closed, with grant announcements stated for the fall; 145 organizations were supported in the 2025 cycle. No open date is posted.
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- Applicants must be organizations rooted in a Native community and led by Native people, working in American Indian, Alaska Native or Native Hawaiian communities. A university cannot be the applicant; a researcher's route is as a partner or documentation collaborator to a grant partner.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- community organizing · advocacy · civic engagement · participatory grantmaking
- Apply at
- https://nativevoicesrising.org/about/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. Funder link last confirmed to resolve on 2026-09-25.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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- Native American Library Services: Enhancement GrantsInstitute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)$50k–$150k · Annual cycle · Apr, Nov
- Partnership GrantsAlaska Mental Health Trust AuthorityAmount not published · Several times a year · Feb, May, Aug, Nov
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