Capacity Building Grant

Capacity Building Grant

Funder: Colorado Plateau Foundation (Flagstaff, AZ)

Overview: CPF's primary grant program supports Native-led organizations building local capacity and long-term sustainability through proposals addressing at least one of four priority areas.

Four Priority Areas

• Protection of Water: Supporting groups stewarding this life-giving resource, recognizing the cultural importance of water for tribes across the Colorado Plateau
• Protection of Sacred Places & Endangered Landscapes: Supporting groups integrating tribal voices into landscape management and safeguarding sacred places, recognizing that lands are inseparable from cultures and communities
• Preservation of Language: Supporting language preservation as tribal languages are the vessels through which ancestral knowledge is passed to future generations and are threatened with extinction
• Sustainable, Community-based Agriculture: Supporting organizations reclaiming sustainable, community-based agriculture and native foods essential to the Colorado Plateau's tribes

Geographic Scope

• Colorado Plateau region (130,000-square-mile area roughly centered over the Four Corners area in southwest United States)
• Tribal nations on the Colorado Plateau including Navajo Nation, Hopi Nation, Ute Mountain Ute, Southern Ute, and other Colorado Plateau tribes

Eligibility

Who CPF Funds:
• Native majority-led Non-profit 501(c)(3) organizations
• Tribal governments with IRS 7871 status
• Organizations with a 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor within tribal nations on the Colorado Plateau
• Native-controlled organizations (majority of governing board and staff are Native)
• Organizations in good standing with CPF (previous grantees)

What We Fund:

What We Do Not Fund

• Hosted fundraising events
• Individuals (organizations only)
• Non-Native majority-led organizations
• Businesses

Long-term General Operating Grants

CPF provides general operating support to previous grantees in good standing. Requirements include:
• Informing Program Officer immediately or before mid-year of any adjustments necessary to projected goals
• Attending Learning Community and Learning Journey Interviews
• Inviting CPF staff to attend organizational gatherings when appropriate

Reporting Requirements

• No written end-of-year report required
• Virtual meeting with Program Officer Marissa Nuvayestewa (~30 minutes) to discuss grant outcomes and share mutually beneficial information

Contact Information