A Resource of the Administration for Native Americans
ANA promotes self-sufficiency for Native Americans by providing discretionary grant funding for community based projects, and training and technical assistance to eligible tribes and native organizations.
The Administration for Native Americans (ANA) promotes social and economic self-sufficiency in communities through SEDS grants.
SEDS programmatic goals include developing and implementing culturally appropriate strategies to meet the social service needs and well-being; promote the creation of a sustainable local economy to enhance the economic independence; and increasing the ability of tribal and Alaska Native villages and territorial governments to exercise local control and decision-making, and to develop and enforce laws, regulations, codes, and policies that reflect and promote the interests of community members.
Social and Economic Development Strategies for Alaska (SEDS-AK) is designed to provide targeted support for Village-specific projects to improve and strengthen the administrative and management capacity of Alaska Native Village governments, governments that are central to social and economic self-sufficiency in Alaska. This program promotes economic and social self-sufficiency for Alaska Natives and is intended to respond to the unique governmental structures in Alaska.
Learn more about Alaska SEDSThe Native Language Preservation and Maintenance (P&M) program provides funding for projects to support assessments of the status of the native languages in an established community, as well as the planning, designing, restoration, and implementing of native language curriculum and education projects to support a community's language preservation goals. Native American communities include American Indian tribes (federally-recognized and non-federally recognized), Native Hawaiians, Alaskan Natives, and Native American Pacific Islanders
Learn more about P&MThe Esther Martinez Immersion program (formerly called the Esther Martinez Initiative) supports the development of self-determining, healthy, culturally and linguistically vibrant, self-sufficient Native American communities. This Funding Opportunity Announcement is focused on community-driven projects designed to revitalize the native American languages to ensure the survival and continuing vitality of these languages and the culture of Native peoples for future generations. Immersion and Restoration grant funding is awarded in according with the Esther Martinez Native American Languages Preservation Act of 2006Visit disclaimer page. The initiative provides funding to support three-year projects being implemented by Native American Language Nests, Survival Schools, and Restoration Programs.
Learn More about EMIGrowing awareness of environmental issues on Indian lands has resulted in increased funding to address these issues. ANA’s Environmental Regulatory Enhancement grants provide tribes with resources to develop legal, technical and organizational capacities for protecting their natural environments.Environmental Regulatory Enhancement projects focus on environmental programs in a manner consistent with tribal culture for Native American communities.
Learn more about EREThe American Rescue Plan (ARP) provides support to communities affected by COVID-19. ARP has allowed us to meet the needs of Native American children, families, and communities, and helps build a stronghold for future generations. To address systemic inequities, ARP strives to cut child poverty in half and funding essential services such as child care, Head Start, preventative child welfare interventions, family violence prevention, energy assistance, and short-term pandemic emergency assistance.
Through ARP, 38 projects were funded in Alaska, serving a total of 58 Alaska Native tribes.
