Mino-Niibi Fund
Sharing Good Water
Native-to-Native Giving:
Supporting Native-led organizations with small grants
Since 2012, the Mino-Niibi Fund for Indigenous Cultures has provided small grants through re-granting to Indigenous-led organizations in the Americas and the Pacific working to revitalize their own cultures, traditions, lands and livelihoods. These funds support work to document and protect Indigenous knowledge, revitalize threatened languages, protect Native foodways and seed sovereignty, conduct youth-elder cultural exchanges, and empower Indigenous women.
Mino-Niibi means "good water" in the Ojibwe language. As a vital resource and powerful spirit, we see making small grants as an honorable and life-affirming process, like sharing good water. We hold reciprocity central to all our partnerships; including reciprocal learning, sharing and respect, and honoring the right to self-determination. The Mino-Niibi Fund helps connect our grantees with one another, other like-minded organizations doing similar work, and additional sources of funding and support through our Te Ha Alliance for Indigenous solidarity.
The Mino-Niibi Fund is governed by an all-Indigenous council from the TCC board of directors and senior staff. These individuals are connected to their local Native communities and to communities in the regions we fund. We have one grant cycle a year.
The Mino-Niibi Fund is by invitation only
Project: Hana Ku and Noenoe Nights
Communities: Kanaka Maoli
Region: Hawai’I, Pacific
Grants Awarded: 2022
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