Tribal Climate Change Guide

The Tribal Climate Change Guide is part of the Pacific Northwest Tribal Climate Change Project (TCCP). The TCCP is part of the L.I.G.H.T. Foundation (LF), is an independent, Indigenous-led, conservation 501(c)(3) nonprofit established on the Colville Indian Reservation in the traditional territory of the Nespelem Tribe in present-day north central Washington State. LF supports the restoration and cultivation of native Plant and Pollinator Relatives and the culturally respectful conservation of habitats and ecosystems which are climate resilient and adaptive. For more information about LF, visit: https://thepnwlf.org/. For more information about the Tribal Climate Change Project, visit: https://tribalclimate.uoregon.edu/. If you would like to add information to this guide, please email kathy.lynn.or@gmail.com.

Funding

The Tribal Climate Change Funding Guide is intended to provide up-to-date information on grants, programs and plans that may assist tribes in addressing climate change through a broad range of sectors. We will update this guide regularly, so please check back often. If you have questions or updates for this guide, email: kathy.lynn.or@gmail.com. Please note that for entries that are accepting applications continuously, the grant deadline column will list "12/31/2024" as the grant deadline. This ensures that those grants will appear immediately after those grants with a set deadline.

Title	Organization Sort ascending	Grant Deadline	Description	Funding Amount	Geography	Website
Glacier National Park Conservancy – Jerry O'Neal Research Fellowship for work in Glacier National Park.		3/19/2025	Glacier National Park Conservancy – Jerry O'Neal Research Fellowship for work in Glacier National Park. Applications Due: March 19, 2025. The fellowship aims to provide educational assistance for students seeking to understand natural and cultural resource issues and how these interact with human values. Special consideration will be given to proposals that address the following: natural resource issues such as aquatic ecology, terrestrial ecology, fire ecology, invasive plants, and climate change; cultural resource issues, such as history and architectural studies, cultural landscape reports, ethnographic research, and archeology; social science that informs resource management about a natural or cultural topic and/or that addresses visitor impacts to park resources. Competition is open to graduate students or superior upper division undergraduate students at universities and colleges in the CESU Network. Applicants may request up to $7500. https://www.umt.edu/cooperative-ecosystem-studies/files/announcements/2025-gnpc_oneal_announcement.pdf			Link
NCAI Business Stabilization Grant			Deadline passed. Application window will be open until funds are exhausted. With generous support from Google.org, NCAI is issuing business stabilization grants in the amount of $5,000 each to a total of 28 selected Native-owned small businesses that have been severely impacted by the curtailing of commercial activity caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Awarded applicants can use the funds to address their most urgent needs to stabilize and strengthen their businesses, such as (but not limited to): making monthly payments on small business loans that have lapsed due to declining business revenues; keeping employees employed; paying their vendors; and/or purchasing equipment/software to transition or grow their businesses online. APPLICATION DEADLINE: Rolling application process; application window will remain open until all funds are exhausted. Categories: COVID-19, business stabilization	$5000		Link

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Grant Deadline

Description

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Geography

Website

Glacier National Park Conservancy – Jerry O'Neal Research Fellowship for work in Glacier National Park.

3/19/2025

Glacier National Park Conservancy – Jerry O'Neal Research Fellowship for work in Glacier National Park. Applications Due: March 19, 2025. The fellowship aims to provide educational assistance for students seeking to understand natural and cultural resource issues and how these interact with human values. Special consideration will be given to proposals that address the following: natural resource issues such as aquatic ecology, terrestrial ecology, fire ecology, invasive plants, and climate change; cultural resource issues, such as history and architectural studies, cultural landscape reports, ethnographic research, and archeology; social science that informs resource management about a natural or cultural topic and/or that addresses visitor impacts to park resources. Competition is open to graduate students or superior upper division undergraduate students at universities and colleges in the CESU Network. Applicants may request up to $7500. https://www.umt.edu/cooperative-ecosystem-studies/files/announcements/2025-gnpc_oneal_announcement.pdf

Link

NCAI Business Stabilization Grant

Deadline passed. Application window will be open until funds are exhausted. With generous support from Google.org, NCAI is issuing business stabilization grants in the amount of $5,000 each to a total of 28 selected Native-owned small businesses that have been severely impacted by the curtailing of commercial activity caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Awarded applicants can use the funds to address their most urgent needs to stabilize and strengthen their businesses, such as (but not limited to): making monthly payments on small business loans that have lapsed due to declining business revenues; keeping employees employed; paying their vendors; and/or purchasing equipment/software to transition or grow their businesses online. APPLICATION DEADLINE: Rolling application process; application window will remain open until all funds are exhausted.

Categories: COVID-19, business stabilization

$5000

Link

The Tribal Climate Change Guide is supported through partnerships between the University of Oregon Environmental Studies Program and the North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative, the USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, the Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals and the Environmental Protection Agency Region 10 Tribal Program.
Questions about this Guide should be directed to kathy@uoregon.edu.