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Mission and Our Work | This Giving Guide | Support Indigenous Sovereignty and Liberation | Indigenous-led Directory | Support Our Work
Mission
Resist is a foundation that supports people's movements for justice and liberation. We redistribute resources back to frontline communities at the forefront of change while amplifying their stories of building a better world.
Our Work
Resist has supported thousands of groups working on the frontlines for Indigenous sovereignty, racial justice, gender equality, LGBTQ+ freedom, immigrants’ rights, and economic and environmental justice. Movements for social change have transformed since Resist’s founding, and Resist continues to transform with them. Today, we fund progressive organizations that are resisting, re-imagining, healing, and transforming the world we want to see.
This Giving Guide
On Native American Heritage Month and beyond, we celebrate, honor and uplift the voices, the fighting spirit, and the resilience of Indigenous peoples across the Americas and globally. We at Resist see Indigenous people as a leading authority on the cultural shift desperately needed in the United States and around the world. In the midst of an ever worsening climate crisis, ongoing global genocides, the soaring costs of basic needs, an ever-widening wealth gap, and attacks on Indigenous rights, we must learn from Indigenous worldviews that prioritize reciprocity (with each other and the lands we occupy), connection, and relationships. We must support Indigenous frontline groups fighting to ensure we have a world that is habitable for generations to come.
This month, and every day, we invite you to listen, learn from, and directly support Indigenous-led Resist grantees who embody wisdom and are on the ground taking action for their sovereignty, their dignity, their health, as well as the wellbeing of our planet earth.
[Image description: Bineshii Hermes-Roach, a citizen of the Bad River tribe of Ojibwe, traveled to the Mississippi River Enbridge Line 3, crossing in Minnesota to join fellow water protectors."]
“In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.” ― Wilma Pearl Mankiller, Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation
Support Indigenous Sovereignty and Liberation
Below you’ll find a directory of Indigenous-led Resist grantees who won't stop resisting and re-imagining a world until Indigenous sovereignty and liberation, visibility, dignity, and rights become truth. They deserve your direct support year-round, not just during Native American Heritage Month.
We know that when we take leadership from Native peoples and support those fighting to radically heal and reimagine a more abundant and interconnected world, we all win. Join us in meeting this moment with action and support the transformative work our grantees are doing today and every day in the name of sovereignty, dignity, freedom, and the health of our planet.
Click on the grantees' names below to visit their websites and donate to their cause. Please note, some grantees receive donations through fiscal sponsors in which case you can note the grantee's name in the description box.
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Apache wisdom tells us that from the atom to the universe, everything is connected; I feel the calling to help people align themselves to that in a good, healthy way. - Kochis-Clark, Founder of Herbal Gardens Wellness
Indigenous-Led Grantee Directory
* Alianza Indigena Sin Fronteras/Indigenous Alliance Without Borders: As a collective of Indigenous Peoples, their mission is to affirm the rights of Indigenous peoples, their right to self-determination, their collective human and civil rights, the rights of sovereignty, the protection of sacred sites, and the free unrestricted movement across international borders.
* All Relations United: All Relations United utilizes the Lakota philosophy of Mitakuye Oyasin, "we are all related," as our guiding principle, to unite, reinvest in and empower their communities.
* Arco Iris Earth Care Project: Arco Iris Earth Care Project is a rural grassroots nonprofit organization let by Two-Spirit Women of Color dedicated to conservation, and preserving and teaching Indigenous cultural, spiritual, and sustainability practices.
* Borikua Taino Foundation: The Borikua Taino Foundation is dedicated to helping Borikua Tainos achieve higher levels of education, preserve their unique cultural identity, land preservation, and develop sustainable health programs by uplifting and promoting our traditions. Email nacionborikuataino@gmail.com to learn how to donate.
* Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe of Texas: The desire of the Carrizo Comecrudo Nation is to be advocates of peace and harmony among their own people as well as other Nations.
* Center for Embodied Pedagogy and Action (CEPA): CEPA's mission is to decolonize Puerto Rico through a diverse array of healing practices and encounters grounded in community care, creativity, and ancestral reclamation, centering those who have been targeted by systems of capitalism and colonialism.
* Chihene Nde Nation of New Mexico: Chihene Nde Nation of New Mexico's goal is to gain re-recognition as a federally recognized American Indian Tribe. They are acquiring their land base and economic development plans that will benefit the public.
* Colectivo Ilé: Colectivo Ilé's mission is to educate, organize and research to strengthen the anti-racist and decolonizing work leading to generate changes, psycho-social, cultural, economic, and political in and out of Puerto Rico community, academic, spiritual realm. They aim to form partnerships through community organizations with various sectors of society to affirm African roots and eradicate institutional, cultural, and individual racism in spaces inside and outside of Puerto Rico.
* Earthlodge Center for Transformation: Earthlodge Center for Transformation aims to provide healing sanctuary and Earth stewardship principles to queer, trans; elderly; womyn and girls; children particularly, Black, immigrant, and marginalized cultures and community.
* Eastern Woodlands Rematriation: Eastern Woodlands Rematriation is a collective of Indigenous people restoring the spiritual foundation of their livelihoods through regenerative food systems.
* Epsilon Spires: Epsilon Spires is a nonprofit organization illuminating the relationships between creative arts, natural sciences, social justice, and sustainability using multimedia platforms.
* Fireburn Heritage: Passionately honors the proud U.S. Virgin Islands’ heritage, celebrate its unique culture and environment, and empower future generations by providing educational and artistic tools, resources, collaborative support, and inspiration.
* First Foods Program: First Foods seeks food sovereignty for Indigenous peoples through education, community, and mutual aid.
* Grand Valley Resident Team: Changing lives by removing language barriers and building economic resources. * Email for information on how to support their work: grandvalleyconnectors@gmail.com
* Greensboro Mutual Aid: Provides alternative structures and possibility models for organizations, collectives, and communities locally, all while dreaming up the future and remembering our past survival ways.
* Herbal Gardens Wellness: Herbal Gardens Wellness envisions creating together One Community of Intersections of Native Cultural Diversity, Equitable Health and Wellness Access including environmental preservation for current and future generations.
* Indigenous Peoples Power Project: Indigenous Peoples Power Project's mission is to provide nonviolent direct action training, campaign support, and community organizing tools to support indigenous communities taking action in defense of their homelands.
* Lakota LockUp Project: The Lakota LockUp Project advocates for American Indians affected by the justice system by supporting innovative approaches for cultural and historical trauma survival that rebuilds lives, strengthens communities, and enables economic justice.
* Liberation Medicine School (LMS): LMS’s mission is to organize a collective of Black LGBTQI healers and students to create an Afro-indigenous healthcare system and decolonial medicinal teaching program that is dedicated to the healing needs of the Black trans and queer community.
* Manidoo Ogitigaan: The mission of Manidoo Ogitigaan is to work with their communities to preserve and revitalize the Spiritual knowledge, language, culture, and ceremonies of the Anishinaabeg to improve our health and the health of our ecological family.
* Making Worlds: A bookstore and social center that emphasizes abolitionist and climate-adapted autonomy and ecological self-determination, and the affirmation of worlds imagined and made by Black, Brown, and Indigenous traditions of liberation.
* Mauna Kea Education and Awareness: The mission of MKEA is to educate and raise the awareness in and beyond Hawai’i on the significance of Mauna Kea by providing cultural learning opportunities to everyone in order to protect sacred places and seek social justice and positive change.
* Minnesota Indigenous Business Alliance: The Minnesota Indigenous Business Alliance works to 1) align partners and communities committed to the growth and success of native-owned businesses, entrepreneurs and artisans, 2) connect native-owned businesses, entrepreneurs, artisans to resources and providers that offer equitable access, are innovative and understand native business and communities, and 3) transform native communities by supporting and advocating for culturally effective entrepreneurial creativity, sound business models and practices and pro-social economic growth.
* Native American House Alliance Inc.: NAHA’s mission is to foster and preserve Native American culture and history, as well as promote, racial, economic, and health justice
* Native Justice Coalition: Native Justice Coalition is a community-based and progressive Anishinaabe Native-led coalition. Their goal is to provide a safe and nurturing platform for their communities based on an anti-oppression framework that promotes healing, social, and racial justice for all Native American people.
* Native Stories: Native Stories is a non-profit audio content platform and production house focused on providing access to authentic stories and experiences – of its people, place, perspective, history, and culture – in service to those that came before us and the understanding of life that should be passed down through generations and around the world.
* Nativewomanshare: Nativewomanshare creates events, advocacy and cultural experiences for safety, representation, and community building for the Native, BIPOC and 2SLGBTQ+ communities of rural Southern Oregon.
* Ñukanchik Llakta Wawakuna: Ñukanchik Llakta Wawakuna is an Andean dance and music collective with a feminist practice in Corona, Queens that builds the foundations for girls to develop as cultural bearers, and challenge the patriarchy in our own culture and society.
* Ominira (formerly Semillas): Ominira works to provide safer spaces for healing, liberation, and transformation for QTIPOC in Borikén. Donate to Ominira via PayPal using the email ominira_pr@protonmail.com.
* People of the Confluence: People of the Confluence acts to revitalize Indigenous communities and the Land by providing educational resources and evidence-based programs to Indigenous youth and families that embrace the teachings, traditions, and values of their Ancestors.
* Pueblo Action Alliance: Pueblo Action Alliance was created in the wake of the Standing Rock movement when Pueblo Camp relatives stood with their Oceti Sakowin relatives to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline. They work to promote cultural sustainability and community defense by addressing environmental and social impacts on Indigenous lands.
* Radio VoxFem: Find, feature & connect at least one woman songwriter/composer, visual artist, filmmaker, and changemaker from each nation and occupied territory in the world, centering original work, BIPOC, 2SLGBTQIA, women with disabilities, non-dominant languages
* Red Salmon Arts (RSA): RSA is a grassroots cultural arts organization, with a thirty-year history of working with the indigenous neighborhoods of Austin. RSA is dedicated to the development of emerging writers and the promotion of Chicana/o/x/Latina/o/x/Native American literature, providing outlets and mechanisms for cultural exchange, and sharing in the retrieval of a people’s cultural heritage with a commitment to social justice.
* Rematriation: Rematriation supports a Sisterhood of Haudenosaunee and Indigenous women who are reclaiming traditional identity, culture, laws, and authority through peace, love, healing, and uplifting the minds of our Indigenous nations.
* Rematriation Magazine and Sisterhood: Rematriation Magazine and Sisterhood is a digital storytelling platform where Indigenous women gather for collective healing from historical as well as current traumas—and for empowerment through rewriting our own narratives and the telling of new narratives.
* Riverton Peace Mission: The Riverton Peace Mission seeks to build solidarity between border towns and the Wind River Indian Reservation by honoring tribal sovereignty for a thriving and decolonized future.
* Sovereign EarthWorks:Sovereign EarthWorks is a member-run organization that focuses on supporting Queer/Trans Black and Indigenous people of color (QTBIPOC+).
* Spirit Root Medicine People: For Two Spirit people to reclaim their Indigenous sacred roles & assist all QTBIPOC to heal themselves in order to heal their communities.
* Sunlight Media Collective: Sunlight Media Collective documents Indigenous issues, educates the public, and offers media to aid movements for Native sovereignty, particularly in Maine where the State’s refusal to respect our inherent sovereignty and jurisdiction often intersects with environmental justice.
* Two Spirit, Trans and Womxns Action Camp (TTWAC - Minneapolis): The TTWAC mission is to build a frontline resistance camp that provides skill shares and empowerment to Two Spirit, Trans people and Womxn while taking direct action against the Line 3 pipeline.
* Toxic Taters Coalition: Toxic Taters is a Native and non-Native rural Minnesotan organization working to protect land, air, water, and community for generations to come.
* Wisdom Circles Oceania: Wisdom Circles Oceania cultivates healthy, thriving communities through healing-centered programs rooted in creative expression and cultural connection.
* Woodbine Education Center: Woodbine Education Center’s living land-based center holds space for all people - particularly Indigenous people, people of color, and queer communities - to reflect while they heal, deepen, and renew their relationships with each other and the land.
Support Our Work
Strong grassroots communities are the bedrock of democratic processes and collective change. Today, Resist continues to support frontline activists in building a just and free world, for the next half-century and beyond.
As a grassroots foundation, Resist does not have an endowment, which means we raise money from over 9,000 donors each year. In 2024, we shifted our budgeting process and prioritized nearly tripling our grants from $4,000 to $10,000. We collectively redistributed $300,000 to help sustain the work of 30 grassroots groups resisting, reimagining, and building resilience in communities across the country.
In spite of this crucial shift, we weren't able to fund hundreds of incredible groups doing necessary work during these difficult times. The more people who commit to regular giving, no matter how “small” the amount, the more we can rely on a sustained budget to support our communities in building new futures. Become a Resist Sustainer today!
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[Image description: Members of Winnemem Wintu Tribe protest holding several signs. Some read: "We are not defeated" and "Honor Tribal Water Rights!".]