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Honoring Our Own Philanthropy                                                            NON-NATIVE FOUNDATIONS: Giving

"One butterfly fluttering its wings....causes tidal wave of goodwill..."

- Ricardo Millet, Executive Director, The Woods Fund


Date
State
Foundation
Gave Contribution
2004
CO
Direct: Scholarships to Native American Students via the Daniels College Prep & Scholarship Program Available to students in CO, WY, NM & UT
Feb 04
CA
Indirect: to the University of California, Riverside for

Indian dance conference in May called "Red Rhythms: Contemporary Methodologies in American Indian Dance"

$75,350
MN

Direct: Indian Child Welfare Center

ThreeHoops note: Six out of 463 grants awarded by McKnight Foundation went to NA issues in 2002, representing 1.2% of the number of grants made in MN.  NA Population in MN ranges from 5% to over 12% of MN total state population according to the 2000 Census.

$30,000
MN

Direct: to Indigenous Peoples Task Force

ThreeHoops note: Six out of 463 grants awarded by McKnight Foundation went to NA issues in 2002, representing 1.2% of the number of grants made in MN.  NA Population in MN ranges from 5% to over 12% of MN total state population according to the 2000 Census.

$25,000
MN

Direct: Migizi Communications, Inc.

ThreeHoops note: Six out of 463 grants awarded by McKnight Foundation went to NA issues in 2002, representing 1.2% of the number of grants made in MN.  NA Population in MN ranges from 5% to over 12% of MN total state population according to the 2000 Census.

$75,000
MN

Direct: Minneapolis American Indian Center

ThreeHoops note: Six out of 463 grants awarded by McKnight Foundation went to NA issues in 2002, representing 1.2% of the number of grants made in MN.  NA Population in MN ranges from 5% to over 12% of MN total state population according to the 2000 Census.

$400,000
MN

Direct: Minnesota Indian Women's Resource Center

ThreeHoops note: Six out of 463 grants awarded by McKnight Foundation went to NA issues in 2002, representing 1.2% of the number of grants made in MN.  NA Population in MN ranges from 5% to over 12% of MN total state population according to the 2000 Census.

$45,000
MN

Direct: White Earth Land Recovery Project

ThreeHoops note: Six out of 463 grants awarded by McKnight Foundation went to NA issues in 2002, representing 1.2% of the number of grants made in MN.  NA Population in MN ranges from 5% to over 12% of MN total state population according to the 2000 Census.

$50,000
IL
Rockefeller Foundation

Indirect & Direct: To the Tribal Histories and a Plural World:
Toward a New Paradigm
D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History
Newberry Library

Fellowships

Long-term fellowships ($40,000) support postdoctoral research in residence at the Newberry for a minimum of 10 months. Short-term fellowships ($3,000 per month plus $1,000 travel reimbursement), open only to community-based tribal historians and tribal college faculty.

Last Updated:Aug 4 05