Keepers of the Earth Fund (KOEF)

An Indigenous Led Fund within Cultural Survival managed by Indigenous staff and designed to support Indigenous Peoples' community self-determined development projects.

Track Record: Supported 392 projects in 40 countries totaling $2,219,369 directly to Indigenous communities, collectives, organizations, and traditional governments

Eligibility

• Grassroots Indigenous-led organizations
• Indigenous collectives
• Traditional governments
• Projects must be self-determined and based on Indigenous values

Focus Areas

KOEF supports projects designed by Indigenous communities in accordance with their Indigenous values, including:

• Leadership of Indigenous women and youth
• Political sovereignty
• Economic sovereignty
• Food sovereignty
• Land and water rights
• Land titling, tenure, and stewardship
• Agroecology
• Environmental and biodiversity protection
• Climate change
• Carbon sequestration
• Intergenerational transmission of Traditional Knowledge
• Indigenous language and knowledge revitalization
• Movement-building
• Indigenous participation and representation in local, regional, national, and international spaces
• COVID-19 response

Approach

Rights-Based: Predicated on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). Cultural Survival uses a rights-based approach to support grassroots Indigenous solutions through equitable distribution of resources to Indigenous communities.

Contact

Cultural Survival, Inc.