Emigdio Ballon, Agricultural Resources Director for the Pueblo of Tesuque Agricultural Initiative. Photo by Kate Russell

The 2009 grant deadline is 5 PM on June 26, 2009.

Please review the 2009 Native American Advised Fund Grant Guidelines prior to submitting a grant application.

2009 Practice Grant Application -- this is a Word document.  Please download this practice grant application and complete it to your liking.  When you are ready, you can cut and paste your responses into the live, on-line grant application.  

Click here  to access the online application.  Please note that once you submit your online application, you cannot go back and make changes – for this reason we encourage you to draft your responses in the downloadable practice grant application first.

The Native American Advised Endowment Fund was established in 1993 with a gift from the late Allan Houser, a humanitarian and one of the world's great artists. Grants are made from the fund based on the recommendations of an advisory committee. A majority of members of the advisory committee are drawn from the Native American community.

Inspired by Allan Houser, the Native American Advised Endowment Fund is dedicated to continuing the legacy of pride, dignity and celebration of Native American people. The fund supports efforts that emphasize the Native love and commitment to self, family, community and our environment.

The fund will operate in perpetuity, benefiting this and future generations. Only the income from the fund is used to make grants.

Native American Advised Grant Awards  are made in alternate years.  In 2007 six organizations in Santa Fe and Northern New Mexico received $13,700 in grants through the Foundation’s Native American Advised Fund:

Cornerstones Community Partnerships.   $2,000. To assist the Nambe Pueblo in its effort to teach native young people about age-old practices of adobe making and plastering through construction of a new ceremonial kiva.

Eight Northern Indian Pueblo Council PeaceKeepers.  $1,000. To support Domestic Violence and Elder Abuse Awareness events and provide services to address it to all individuals residing within the Eight Northern Pueblos.

IMPACT Personal Safety.   $2,000.  To offer an age and culturally appropriate 6-hour Children's PREPARE violence prevention workshop at the Santa Clara Pueblo Day school.

New Mexico Suicide Intervention Project.  $2,500. To conduct outreach and program assistance to build capacity among Northern New Mexico pueblo communities to deliver promising and culturally relevant youth suicide prevention strategies in their communities and schools.

Pueblo Of Tesuque, Agricultural Initiative.   $3,200.  To create a healthy, sustainable food supply for Native and non-Native people whose exposure to inexpensive, quick retail food has resulted in serious health problems; conduct workshops and a seed saving program to increase access to healthy, organically grown local food and medicine.

Tewa Women United.  $3,000.   To provide safe spaces for Indigenous women to uncover the power, strength and skills they possess to become positive forces for social change in their families and communities; programs include: Environmental Health and Justice, Women's Leadership and Economic Literacy, Indigenous Women's Health and Reproductive Justice, and V.O.I.C.E.S. sexual violence program.

For more information contact Christa Coggins, Program Directorat 505.988.9715, ext. 2.

SFCF provides grants to eligible applicants so long as funds are available, without regard to the race, creed, color, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, disability, country or place of origin, ethnicity or citizenship status of the applicants.