SGF Affiliate Program

Affiliate Program | Current Affiliates

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Affiliates are Native communities or organizations who come “in-house” with SGF usually because they are emerging programs (less than five years old) or projects that do not yet have the staff or capacity to run as solo 501(c)(3) non-profit, tax-exempt organizations. Being an Affiliate allows a group to direct its efforts towards accomplishing its goals and objectives while SGF assists with administration, technical training, fiscal management, program oversight and organizational development. SGF’s assistance allows Affiliates to fully participate in community-based organizing efforts and direct action campaigns.

SGF Affiliates cover a wide array of Indigenous communities, tribal groups and bioregions. They begin their affiliate relationship with Seventh Generation Fund at different points of entry. Some groups become Affiliates for just a short duration in order to become established or to accomplish a particular program or project. In these instances, an Affiliate may only need our organizational expertise for fiscal management and program development, implementation and support. For example, we might offer training in setting up by-laws or establishing a Board of Directors.

Other projects remain affiliated with SGF on a long-term basis – some have been with us for over a decade. Generally, the core goal of the SGF Affiliate Program is to build the capacity and knowledge base of the programs and projects we support so that they can “spin off” in a few years and become independent of SGF’s oversight and fiscal management. When this happens, there is no longer a fiduciary relationship or any management by SGF of grant funding or donations.

It is important to note that, in some instances, SGF is not the source of funding for an Affiliate. Some Affiliates obtain grants from other sources and SGF helps with financial management & administrative services, technical & technological training, site visits and other types of assistance.

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1. Advocates for the Protection of Sacred Sites, Pitt River (CA)
Advocates for the Protection of Sacred Sites is a community based project that dedicates their effort to protecting the Medicine Lake Highlands and other sacred sites from degradation and destruction.

2. Alianza Indigena Sin Fronteras, Yaqui (CA),
Alianza Indigena Sin Fronteras promotes the respect and protection of Indigenous rights, Indigenous sovereignty, self-determination, rights of mobility and passage for Indigenous peoples on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, Indigenous workers’ rights and environmental protection of Native lands and sacred sites.

3. Andes Chinchasuyo, Otovalo, Quichua (Ecuador)
Andes Chinchasuyo works to address human rights issues throughout the twenty-one provinces of Ecuador and community organizing for the education and advocacy of women and children.

4. Apache Survival Coalition, Apache (AZ)
The Apache Survival Coalition works to protect Mt. Graham, a sacred and environmentally critical habitat in Arizona from the development and presence of astronomical telescopes.

5. Baboquivari Defense Project, Tohono O’odham (AZ)
The Baboquivari Defense Project is focused on protecting and preserving traditional sacred sites of high spiritual significance to the Tohono O’odham people in Arizona and Mexico.

6. Barbareno Chumash Council, Chumash (CA)
The Council works toward strengthening the Native Chumash community through the revitalization of culture, sharing songs, language and traditional oral histories. They have also revitalized the Chumash Tomol Crossing, which is a traditional canoe journey to the Channel Islands.

7. Boarding School Healing Project, Lakota (SD)
The Boarding School Healing Project, a coalition of several organizations around the country, seeks to document Native boarding school abuses so that Native communities can begin healing from boarding school abuses and demand justice.

8. Buffalo River Dene, (Canada)
Buffalo River Dene is dedicated to raising awareness of the Buffalo River Dene Nation’s current legal battle over traditional land rights with the government of Canada.

9. Coyotes Paw, Hoopa (CA)
Coyotes Paw offers workshops and mentoring for young Indigenous people within the Native community through traditional art forms.

10. Dine Agriculture Inc., Navajo Dine (NM)
This Indigenous group coordinates the traditional culture and customs of Dine' sheepherders and agriculture with community-based development on the Navajo Reservation.

11. Eagle and Condor Indigenous People’s Alliance, Multi-tribal (OK)
The Alliance is dedicated to the preservation of traditional lifeways and works to address the issues of Native peoples in Oklahoma and common issues that affect Indigenous peoples internationally. A major focus of the organization is their grassroots organizing efforts. They are active in social justice issues and often sponsor events that bring together Indigenous peoples of the Eagle (North America) and the Condor (South America) in activities that allow diverse groups with similar interests to join and work together towards common causes.

12. Grupo Maya Qusamej Junan, Mayan Community (CA)
Grupo Maya focuses on revitalizing the Maya culture, fostering cultural and spiritual pride among the Mayan youth, adults and elders, developing leadership among Mayan communities, supporting self-determination, self-development and Indigenous rights of Mayan people in their homelands, and promoting spiritual healing for war survivors.

13. Healing of Nations, Blackfeet (KY)
Healing of Nations addresses the high incidence of suicide among Native American youth through the development of culturally relevant models for suicide prevention, community-based crisis intervention teams, provision of suicide prevention information and education, and by conducting on-site “art and the healing process” workshops.

14. Idiwanan An Chawe, Zuni (NM)
Idiwanan An Chawe provides opportunities for Zuni of all ages to participate in the exploration of Zuni cultural concepts, values and issues, both traditional and contemporary, through community theater production and language fluency.

15. Indigenous Mapping Network, Multi-tribal (ID)
This is an organization set up to empower native communities by sharing essential tools which protect, preserve, and enhance our way of life within our territories. IMN members are advocates for indigenous people's mapping issues that are often overlooked, and are supporters for re-evaluating maps of native lands created/modified by governments, academics, scholarly societies, and the technological world.

16. Indigenous Network on Economies and Trade, Shushwap, Cree, Secwepmec (Canada)
Creating a platform that is open to Indigenous peoples around the world to ensure the protection of their inherent land rights, proprietary interests and Indigenous economies.

17. Indigenous Youth Coalition of Pinon, Dine (AZ)
This Coalition in Arizona utilizes traditional Dine’ philosophy and knowledge systems for healing, education and empowering Indigenous youth in order to address current challenges such as discrimination, environmental injustice and social inequity facing Native communities today.

18. Instituto Cientifico de Culturas Indigenas, Saraguaro (Ecuador)
The Institute is an organization that is primarily dedicated to the documentation of knowledge and practices of indigenous tribes through the investigation, qualification, socialization of information that revitalizes the individual and collective identity.

19. Maya Vision, Kiche, Maam, Kanjobal (CA)
Maya Vision works to reaffirm Mayan cultural identity, strengthen the skills and capacity of the community members, and build collective wellbeing by providing programs, advocacy, traditional healing and cultural events in a difficult urban setting.

20. Native Youth Coalition, Multi-tribal, (OK, CA, NV, AZ,)
This organization is comprised of youth from several Native communities using digital media to train and empower youth to preserve their culture and prepare them for leadership.

21. Native Youth Cultural Exchange, Hopi, Hawaiian North California, (AZ, HI, CA)
The Native Youth Cultural Exchange is a collaboration of Native entities that serves three distinctly different Native communities; Northern California, Hopi and Hawai‘i. The organizers and participants represent a multigenerational effort to share the elders’ wisdom, the adults’ hard work and the youths’ future potential. This project helps to build healthy communities by developing youth leaders by immersing youth in traditional knowledge and culture during a cultural exchange in each community.

22. Navajo Waters, Dine’, Hopi (AZ)
Working with the community, Navajo Waters is compiling relevant Navajo water rights and development research to disseminate, and educate community members and youth in asserting their control of their most precious natural resource.

23. Nuclear-Free Future, Indigenous peoples Program (Germany)
Working towards freeing the planet from nuclear contamination and stopping extractive mining that has already created a radioactive inheritance for future generations of Indigenous peoples throughout the world.

24. NVision, Pawnee, Multi-cultural (OK, CO)
NVision is committed to the development of Native youth and young adult leadership and traditional and contemporary expressions of art, culture, education, and multi-media from a Native core and perspective on a local and national level in Indian Country.

25. Q’o:so:s Networking Project, Hoopa, Yurok, Karuk (CA)
Q’o:so:s is focused on bringing health, environmental, social and cultural issues in the Hoopa valley to the forefront by creating workshops and activities designed to educate and assist Native people and to create networks with existing local community projects.

26. Seeds of Harmony, Dine’ AZ
The mission of Seeds of Harmony is to enhance the way of life within tribal communities by fostering respect and appreciation for natural and cultural resources among young people, elders and communities in the Southwest region. This mission is approached by building and strengthening the movement for a sustainable and healthy way of life while sharing cultural and scientific knowledge of the environment with the youth through multiple settings of learning.

27. Secwepemc Nation Youth Movement, Secwepemc, (B.C.)
Revitalizing the culture of Secwepemc community, Secwepemc facilitates youth working with elders, traditional land-use and youth in language and other traditional lifeways projects.

28. Sustainable Nations Development Project, Anishinaabeg, Wyandot (CA)
Sustainable Nations Development Project promotes the sovereignty, environmental health and cultural health of Indigenous Nations through community-based appropriate technology development.

29. Tatanka Oyate, Sicangu Lakota (SD)
The Tatanka Oyate project works tirelessly to protect and restore the habitat of the last wild buffalo herd in Yellowstone and create awareness for protecting and preserving sacred species in the plains region, an area of special significance to Native cultures.

30. Traditional Native American Farmers Association, SW Pueblos (NM)
TNAFA’s mission is to “revitalize traditional agriculture for spiritual and human need.” This project addresses social, economic and health problems in its members’ communities and offers opportunities for self-sufficiency through sustainable natural and cultural resource development, rebuilding a means for cultural reclamation of damaged eco and social systems and creating a healthy organic food supply.

31. Tupippuh Project, Timbisha Shoshone (CA)
The Tupippuh Project’s goal is to preserve and strengthen traditional Western Shoshone cultural values for future generations and provides tribal language recovery, traditional lifeways, community organizing, and creates culturally meaningful sustainable development for the Timbisha people of Death Valley.

32. Western Shoshone Defense Project, Shoshone (NV)
The Mission of the Western Shoshone Defense Project is to affirm Newe (Western Shoshone) jurisdiction over Newe Sogobia (Western Shoshone homelands) by protecting, preserving, and restoring Newe rights and lands for present and future generations based on cultural and spiritual traditions.

33. Yurok Traditional Dugout Canoe Project, Yurok (CA)
This project teaches youth and adults the traditional techniques of building / constructing traditional Yurok canoes for use in ceremonies.