Public & Societal Benefit

Bismarck, ND — Dakota Legacy, a sponsored organization of North Dakota Council on the Arts, seeks to work in partnership with community, arts, and education organizations to “repatriate, contextualize, and make more accessible traditional Lakota songs recorded on the Standing Rock reservation” by ethnomusicologist Frances Densmore between 1911-1914. Many of these songs are currently stored at the Smithsonian and the Library of Congress and remain inaccessible to Indigenous communities.

Callaway, MN — Intertribal hemp cooperative development and demonstration project

Kyle, SD — To develop an online mapping resource that spans and connects Lakota history, culture and place through a community-led process

Minneapolis, MN — For GiveMN.

Eagle Butte, SD — To test and support Akiptan's agriculture-lending model for Native American farmers and ranchers

Minneapolis, MN — To pilot a trauma-informed primary care model at Hennepin Healthcare's East Lake Clinic as an incubator with plans to implement the model system-wide

Saint Paul, MN — To test shifts in opportunity, power and narrative through a Guaranteed Income Pilot for artists, culture bearers and creatives in St.

Saint Paul, MN — Time of Reckoning, Healing, Listening and Action: a series of racial justice forums

Minneapolis, MN — To establish the Commercial Land Trust Initiative to demonstrate the need for, and viability of, using the community land trust mechanism to preserve the availability and affordability of community-owned commercial space

Fargo, ND — 2021 Giving Hearts Day