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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Justicia Digna
Our 100% Indigenous board is Cherokee, Maya Mam, Pueblo, Cheyenne, Maya Q’iche, Yaqui, and Gabrielino. We see many of the same threats across borders including extractive industries displacing us and destroying our land & water; violence against Indigenous women, children, & LGBTQTS relatives. We seek to address our mutual struggles through unified approaches & relationships that existed before imposed colonial borders separated us.
Ke Kula Nui O Waimānalo
Our Vision: Kūkulu Kaiāulu
Kūkulu – To build, as a house; to construct, erect, establish, organize, set up; to put up, as mast and sail; to found, as a society; to establish, as a name or dynasty
Kaiāulu – Community, neighborhood, village.
Our Mission:
Provide a community of practice through collaboration of Kānaka to promote strong and healthy ahupuaʻa.
We are a grassroots community based non-profit 501(c)3 aimed at helping our community become self-sustainable in every way. From the mountain to the sea, the `āina and kai can provide for the community as it did years ago.
Ke’yah Advanced Rural Manufacturing Alliance
Since 2015, KARMA began as a Kellogg Foundation grant within Navajo Technical University (NTU) to support 3D printing and engineering program in K12 schools on Navajo, Hopi, and Zuni Nations. In 2020, KARMA concluded its Kellogg grant and incorporated as a nonprofit 501 (c) 3. KARMA continues to support K12 development in Native communities focusing on STEM related fields such as 3D printing, coding, robotics, media, and virtual reality.
keepers of the sacred tradition of pipemakers
were a tribal non profit that do a lot of work in schools and prisons as well as craft classes
Keres Children’s Learning Center
Keres Children’s Learning Center (KCLC) strives to reclaim our children’s education and honor our heritage by using a comprehensive cultural and academic curriculum to assist families in nurturing Keres-speaking, holistically healthy, community minded, and academically strong students.
The Keres Children’s Learning Center (KCLC) is a Keres-language revitalization school that uses an intergenerational approach to immersion and dual language with Montessori pedagogy to give our children (ages 0 –18) the best of both worlds—an opportunity for children to learn through their heritage language of Keres while simultaneously accessing an academic curriculum that challenges their intellect and values their whole being.
Ko’olauloa Hawaiian Civic Club
The Koolauloa Hawaiian Civic Club was founded by William Isaac Kanakanui on April
June 14, 1924 and chartered on April 16, 1966 by the Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs and is the second oldest club in the organization.
Our mission is to perpetuate Hawaiian culture, its music, language and arts are practiced daily as we protect, respect and steward sacred sites and places in our community, while supporting our Native Hawaiian students in pursuing a higher education.
We support the Association of Hawaiian Civic Club and the O’ahu Council events and activities. Our Civic Engagement efforts consist of volunteering, educating, advocating and representing the Ko’olauloa Hawaiian Civic Club in a diverse arena. We provide Poi Pounding Workshops, Woodcraft and Pohaku Workshops in our community.
Koahnic Broadcast Corporation
Since 1992, Koahnic Broadcast Corporation (KBC) has been a national leader in Native media. Based in Anchorage, Alaska, with a production center in Albuquerque, New Mexico, we are the primary producer of Native programming for the entire public radio system.
KBC’s award-winning national radio programs include Native America Calling, a live call-in show; the National Native News daily report; and Indigefi, the weekly program of contemporary Native music.
KNBA 90.3 FM in Anchorage is the first Native station in an urban market. KNBA provides local and regional programming including news, public affairs and music, with an online stream at knba.org.
Kohe Malamalama O Kanaloa Protect Kahoolawe Fund
Our organization is the fiscal entity for the Protect Kahoolawe Ohana which led the movement to stop the bombing and military use of the sacred island of Kahoolawe. Our vision and mission is to perpetuate Aloha Aina, love, respect and cultural stewardship of Hawaiian land and ocean throughout our islands through cultural, educational and spiritual activities that heal and revitalize the cultural and natural resources of Kahoolawe and Hawaiian national lands.