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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Vancleave Live Oak Choctaw
Our Tribe can trace our documented Native linage to 1699 when the French arrived on the Mississippi Gulf coast. We have survived the French, Spanish, English, and now with the United States. We had no education, in 1918 a Indian School was established. It ran from 1918 to 1965. Only a 8th grade education could be had and no other school could be attended. We are now bringing back language, ceremonies, dance , and our lost Native heritage. We try to take care of our elders, children, and the needy. we participate in Tribe and community.We are still trying to survive and bring back our Native ways. We are moving forward in community and Tribe.
Vision Maker Media
Vision Maker Media’s mission is empowering and engaging Native people to share stories. We envision a world changed and healed by understanding Native stories and the public conversations they generate. We work with VMM funded producers to develop, produce and distribute programs for all public media. VMM supports training to increase the number of American Indians and Alaska Natives producing public broadcasting programs.
VISIONARY VENTURES NFP CORPORATION
Visionary Ventures works with our Native American community leaders and members to advocate for affordable housing, economic development, services and jobs to help provide stability and enrich their lives.
Visionary Ventures is co-developing the first affordable housing for our Native American community in Chicago’s history. It is truly history in the making! We were promised housing 50 years ago and we are finally making it happen.
Waadookodaading Ojibwe Language Institute
The Waadookodaading Ojibwe Language Institute utilizes the gift of the Ojibwe language as a means through which students and the community can achieve the ultimate goal of Indigenous survival and tribal sovereignty through realization of personal, family, cultural, spiritual, environmental, and educational goals.
The Institute began as the Waadookodaading Ojibwe Language Immersion School whose mission is to create proficient speakers of the Ojibwe language who are able to meet the challenges of our rapidly changing world. Although its current primary focus is K-12 education, it has evolved as a regional institution for Ojibwe language revitalization by creating immersion teachers and providing technical assistance to other language and immersion school programs in development throughout the nation.
Wakan Tipi Awanyankapi
Wakan Tipi Awanyankapi (WTA) is a Native-Led cultural and environmental stewardship nonprofit in St. Paul, Minnesota that is centered in Dakota values. We advocate for and steward the Dakota sacred landscape, Wakan Tipi, which encompasses Wakan Tipi Cave, Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary, and Indian Mounds Cemetery. Our mission is to engage people to honor and care for our natural places and the sacred sites and cultural value within them. Our three program areas are Environmental Education, Urban Conservation & Restoration, and Cultural Connections & Healing.
Waking Women Healing Institute
We are Indigenous women and LGBTQ+ survivors of violence who are working to create communities that are safe, equitable, and violence free. We serve indigenous women, girls, and native LGBTQ+ survivors of domestic and sexual violence, and families of MMIWP. We provide direct services as well as healing, prevention, and responses that are founded in our culture and in connection to land and language.
Wallowa Band Nez Perce Trail Interpretive Center, INC.
The Nez Perce Wallowa Homeland (NPWH) is a place-based nonprofit led by tribal and non-tribal people with a common commitment to upholding, perpetuating and celebrating the people and practices native to wal’áwa (Wallowa), our shared home.
Our mission is to deepen the connection between the wal’áwa country and all those who care about it. We inspire a way of working together as wé·tesne qicxnew̓é·t (caretakers of the earth) to rekindle relationships and welcome people home.
Warfield Moose Cultural Society (dba Mita Oyate Cultural Society)
Mita Oyate Cultural Society invites all people to discover the Lakota way of life through the songs, stories, and traditional teachings that empower youth and communities. The society fulfills its mission through cultural preservation projects, educational workshops, educational tools, climate and health initiatives, and community support. Mita Oyate is committed to sustaining Lakota heritage for future generations.
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