Health

Minneapolis, MN — North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems (NATIFS) will support the development and spread of Indigenous foods and cuisine through increased food production, growth and education, and will advance Indigenous economic opportunities through restaurants, consumer products, and agriculture. These efforts will lead to improved health and strengthened cultural connections to land and food among Indigenous peoples.

Sioux Falls, SD — The Compass Center will scale the Little Navigators Empowerment Program, growing the number of students, locations and staff. The program builds a network of support within childcare centers to promote healthy social development and prevent child abuse for young children who have experienced trauma.

Minneapolis, MN — Family Tree Clinic will scale its gender-affirming care project to expand access for transgender and gender non-conforming (TGNC) individuals in Greater Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota. This grant will sustainably increase the number of providers offering this type of care and will address issues around health disparities and inequalities facing TGNC people.

Minneapolis, MN — Hennepin Healthcare Foundation and its partners will develop a new Medicaid benefit for access to respite care service for individuals experiencing chronic homelessness. They will co-design the benefit with the Minnesota Department of Human Services. If all goes as planned, this benefit and the design of the recuperative program will be spread throughout Minnesota to meet the respite care needs of these individuals. This will also save costs for health care, housing, and criminal justice systems.

Minneapolis, MN — This grant supports the Native American Community Clinic to adapt its telehealth visit model to meet an urgent need for coordinated health care for Native Americans living in Minneapolis. This work will transform the existing health care system serving Native Americans, prepare for when extra state funding ends and a possible recurrence of COVID-19. This grant builds on a previous Community Innovation grant to support this work.

Alexandria, VA — This grant builds on a previous Community Innovation Grant for the Mni Wizipan Wakan (Water Bundles) Project. This work aims to manage and protect water rights on the Ihanktonwan (Yankton) Reservation by creating a political, scientific and legal basis for tribal-federal government co-management of the landscape and hydroscape of the Missouri River Cultural Basin that passes through tribal lands. This grant supports developing and testing an idea that has the potential to transform the way tribes manage water.