The USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture Community Food Projects Competitive Grant Program is accepting applications for the development and/or implementation of community food projects that fight food insecurity and promote self-

Tourism Tip: As communities build their food sovereignty, consider agritourism to share your farming methods and products with visitors.

The Western Arts Alliance is accepting applications for its 2021 AIP Native Launchpad Award. Each awardee will receive direct financial and travel support, mentoring/coaching, professional development and promotional benefits, valued at $40,000, over three years.

Deadline: 5/4/21

Tourism Tip: Share this opportunity with your tribal dance groups or performers. 

The Institute of Museum and Library Services is now accepting applications for Native American Library Services Enhancement grants. This program is designed to assist Native American tribes in improving core library services for their communities. Reflecting IMLS’s agency-level goals of championing lifelong learning, strengthening community engagement, and advancing collections stewardship and access.

Tourism Tip: Libraries can become a part of your tourism program, a center for promoting local businesses and events and a place for visitors to relax.

The Native American Agriculture Fund grants support Native American farmers and ranchers with a special emphasis on traditional foods, food sovereignty programs, lending, youth programming and agricultural sciences.

Tourism Tip: Consider using your farm resources and turning them into an agritourism business to share methods and products with visitors.

The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Partnership Program is seeking proposals to fund up to $75 million in new, unique projects under the Regional Conservation Partnership Program’s (RCPP) Alternative Funding Arrangements (AFA). The USDA will prioritize projects related to climate smart agriculture and forestry. Want to know more about smart farming, click here.

Tourism Tip: This is a great funding opportunity for new or existing agritourism businesses.

Clif Family Foundation is inviting applications for small grants. Small grants will be awarded in support of projects that promote environmental protection, outdoor recreation, strong communities and healthy food systems.

Tourism Tip: Share this opportunity with your tribe's outdoor recreational tourism and agritourism businesses.

The USDA's Regional Conservative Partnership Program (RCPP) promotes coordination of NRCS conservation activities with partners that offer value-added contributions to expand our collective ability to address on-farm, watershed and regional natural resource concerns.

Tourism Tip: Another great opportunity for those agritourism businesses!

National Forest Foundation Invites Applications for Matching Awards Program

The National Forest Foundation Matching Awards Program provides funding for on-the-ground results-oriented projects designed to enhance forest health and outdoor experiences in national forests and grasslands.

Deadline: June 9, 2021

Tourism Tip: This opportunity can help fund outdoor-based tourism attractions.

The USDA Rural Development's Business & Industry (B&I) CARES Act Program is making available up to $1 billion in loan guarantees to help rural agriculture businesses meet their working capital needs.

Tourism Tip: This opportunity can help any rural agritourism business struggling to meet working capital needs.

The USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture Community Food Projects Competitive Grant Program (CFPCGP) is accepting applications for projects that fight food insecurity through developing community food projects that help promote the self-sufficiency of low-income communities.

NIFA's Community Food Projects (CFP) is funding two types of grants:

For more information, visit www.nifa.usda.gov. Read the abstracts of previously funded programs (including several tribal programs) at Read the Abstracts.

The Western Arts Alliance is accepting applications for its 2021 AIP Native Launchpad Award. Each awardee will receive direct financial and travel support, mentoring/coaching, professional development, and promotional benefits, valued at $40,000, over three years.

For more information, visit www.westarts.org.

Native American Library Services Enhancement grants advance the programs and services of eligible Indian tribes, including Alaska Native villages, regional corporations and village corporations. They are competitive grants of up to $150,000 for two years and are available to any tribe, village, corporation or regional corporation.

For more information, visit imls.gov or contact Program Specialists, Sarah Boonie at (202) 653-4761 or sboonie@imls.gov or Maeve Coudrelle at (202) 653-4715 or mcoudrelle@imls.gov.

The Native American Agriculture Fund grants support Native American farmers and ranchers with a special emphasis on traditional foods, food sovereignty programs, lending, youth programming and agricultural sciences.

For more information visit nativeamericanagriculturefund.org or contact NAAF at grants@NativeAmericanAgricultureFund.org or 479.445.6226

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Resource Conservation Service is seeking proposals to fund up to $75 million in new projects under the Regional Conservation Partnership Program’s (RCPP) Alternative Funding Arrangements (AFA) that take innovative and non-traditional approaches to conservation solutions. In making selections, the NRCS will prioritize projects related to climate-smart agriculture and forestry.

For more information contact FPAC.BC.Press@usda.gov or visit www.nrcs.usda.gov.

Clif Family Foundation is inviting applications for small grants. Small grants will be awarded in support of projects that promote environmental protection, outdoor recreation, strong communities and healthy food systems. Priority is given to applicants that:

For more information visit https://cliffamilyfoundation.org/grants-program

The USDA's Regional Conservative Partnership Program (RCPP) promotes coordination of NRCS conservation activities with partners that offer value-added contributions to expand our collective ability to address on-farm, watershed and regional natural resource concerns. Through RCPP, NRCS seeks to co-invest with partners to implement projects that demonstrate innovative solutions to conservation challenges and provide measurable improvements and outcomes tied to the resource concerns they seek to address.

For more information visit nrcs.usda.gov or contact the relevant State RCPP coordinator.

The National Forrest Foundation is soliciting proposals for its Matching Awards Program (MAP) to provide funds for on-the-ground projects that directly benefit America’s National Forests and Grasslands. MAP pairs federal funds provided through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Forest Service with non-federal dollars raised by award recipients, multiplying the resources available to implement stewardship projects that benefit the National Forest System. 

For more information contact Kerry Morse, Conservation Awards Manager at (406) 830-3358 or kmorse@nationalforests.org.

The USDA Rural Development's Business & Industry (B&I) CARES Act Program is making up to $1 billion available to help rural businesses meet their working capital needs during the current coronavirus pandemic.

The Agency will consider applications in the order they are received and will distribute CARES Act funds on a first-come, first-served basis.

View recorded webinars for businesses and producers or contact Mark Brodziski, Acting Administrator, Rural Business and Cooperative Service, Rural Development at mark.brodziski@usda.gov or (202) 205–0903.

Join USDA Rural Development and members of the Rural Workforce Innovation Network (RWIN) for the next workshop of a monthly series. In this workshop, representatives from USDA Rural Development and the National Center for American Enterprise Development will share resources and funding opportunities that can help create entrepreneurship and workforce training programs for tribal members.