Programs

CONGRATULATIONS

to all of our Grantees!!

Through its funding initiatives, Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (NACF) offers support for Native artists, organizations and communities across the 48 states, Alaska and Hawaii. After decades of visioning, NACF is a permanently endowed national philanthropic organization dedicated exclusively to the revitalization, appreciation, and perpetuation of Native arts and cultures. Through grant making and charitable contribution, NACF works to increase the capacity of Native cultural practices by investing in Native artists and Native communities whose work focuses on cultural stewardship and creative innovation.

2010: $400,000 in grants

• 26 Grants ranging from $6000 to $20,000

2011: $510,000 in grants

• 28 grants ranging from $10,000 to $40,000  

NACF focuses on three areas of interest:

    1.  Support for Individual Native Artists

    2.  Support for Native Communities

    3.  Support for the Native Arts and Cultures Field

We celebrate ... the hula dancer, the totem carver, the basket weaver, the storyteller and those Native artists that cultivate traditional knowledge. We celebrate the land, our languages, our ceremonies, our oceans - these ways of life which uphold our aloha, our traditions, our heritage, and our cultures.
 
We embrace innovation ... the performance artist, the videographer, the painter, the poet - Native artists and culture bearers have always adapted to change, modified their tongue, and responded to the environment with a critical eye.

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*For insight into the 2010 and 2011 grantees, please see links at right.

Criteria and guidelines for 2012 will be posted in February.

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Stay tuned for an announcement regarding the

"Bridge Initiative for Native Arts"

supporting Native arts organizations in Oregon and Clark County, WA