Seventh Generation Fund

Overview

Who We Are

Today, our purpose remains as our founders originally envisioned.

Dedicated to Indigenous Peoples’ self-determination and the sovereignty of Native nations.

Founded in 1977, Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples emerged from Indigenous communities during the cultural, social, and political renaissance era of the ’60s and ’70s. Leaders of the time, such as our primary founder the late Daniel Bomberry (Salish/Cayuga), included chiefs, clan mothers, youth, and community activists. These leaders established the organization to respond to the needs of grassroots Indigenous communities and initiatives.

Seventh Generation Fund focuses on cultural revitalization, leadership development, tribal sovereignty, and culturally appropriate economic development. Our organization grew and evolved into the foremost Indigenous social-profit organization in the U.S. serving transnational community-based organizations.

We recognize the critical need at the grassroots level for access to resources, technical assistance, and training. Our work has consistently been based on traditional Indigenous concepts of holistic ecological stewardship. We have long understood the direct relationships between a healthy environment, social justice, and community well-being. We remain focused on grassroots development through Indigenous community empowerment and action.

Our organization derives its name from a precept of the Great Law of Peace of the Haudenosaunee (Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy). This precept mandates that chiefs consider the impact of their decisions on the seventh generation yet to come. This principle guides us in our frontline work of revitalization, restoration, preservation, planning, and development projects.

Seventh Generation Fund

Seventh Generation Fund annually raises funds to grant out and has limited funds to distribute throughout different regions of the Indigenous World across our four program pathways.

Eligibility

_You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website._

* All applications must be submitted by Indigenous Peoples.
* Eligible applicants:
* Emerge from and are led by the Indigenous Peoples served and who are impacted by the issues, methods, and outcomes.
* Nurture and center the culture, language, values, traditional knowledge systems, and healthy lifeways of the Indigenous Peoples involved in and served by the project.
* Have 80% or more Indigenous Peoples in decision-making leadership as the Board of Directors or other decision-making entity, and have an Indigenous Executive Director, all Indigenous co-Directors/Project leaders, and Indigenous Peoples engaged throughout all aspects of the organization.
* Thriving Women further mandates at least 70% must be Indigenous women-identified on the Board of Directors, have an Indigenous woman Executive Director, and all Indigenous women co-Directors/Project leaders.
* Are an SGF Affiliate Project, a non-profit with 501(c)(3) tax exempt status, a federally-recognized tribal nation project, or have a fiscal sponsor.
* If fiscally sponsored, the Seventh Generation Fund prioritizes applicants with Indigenous or People of Color fiscal sponsoring organizations.
* Have a project budget of <$500,000.
* Community-based organizing projects are prioritized.
* Are in good standing with Seventh Generation Fund without reports due or outstanding issues.
* Native Peoples’ organizations and projects are eligible to apply for one grant per calendar year.

Ineligibility

* We are unable to support:
* non-Native organizations
* scholarships, or
* religious missionizing efforts.