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Native Voices Rising: A Case for Funding Native-Led Change

This 2013 report by Native Americans in Philanthropy (NAP) and Common Counsel Foundation presents research on 146 nonprofit social change organizations led by Native Americans to benefits Native communities, the issues they address and the range of strategies they utilize. This research report, which includes recommendations for funders, informs NAP’s Native Voices Rising project that […]


Context is Everything: Reflections on Strengthening Partnerships Between the Philanthropic Community and Native Americans

This 2011 report by One Fire Development, Inc., provides an overview of the impediments to partnerships between the philanthropic community and Native Americans, with recommended strategies for overcoming them.  


Giving to Indian Country: Trends in Northwest Giving

This 2010 report by Philanthropy Northwest shows there was slight increase in organized giving to Indian Country despite the downturn in the economy and the significant decline overall in giving in the Northwest.  


Large Foundations’ Grantmaking to Native America

This 2005 report written by Sarah Hicks and Miriam Jorgensen with the Kathryn M. Buder Center for American Indian Studies at Washington University, and the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development finds that relative to their representation in the U.S. population, Native people are underserved by foundations. This report highlights the need for foundations […]


Diversity in Action: Strategies with Impact

This 2009 publication by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors with Council on Foundations and the Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers, is the third monograph in a series. In this monograph, Foundation CEOs and Trustees discuss the importance of diversity and inclusion within the field of philanthropy and strategies they are using to advance social change and […]