Inaugural Native Nonprofit Day May 20

Campaign to Illustrate How Community-Based Organizations Create Impact A giving campaign supported by the Native Ways Foundation highlights the importance of supporting Native-led non-profits throughout the month of May. Beginning May 1 and culminating on Native Nonprofit Day May 20, the campaign will raise awareness about how Native non-profits make a greater impact on Native communities. Large foundations have allocated less than half a percent of their total annual grantmaking to Native...

Education was never the point when American Indian, Alaska Native, and Hawaiian children were taken from their families by agents of the U.S. government and were forced to travel far from the only homes they had ever known to live at boarding schools. Education was never the point when strangers cut Native children’s hair, burned their clothing, washed their tiny bodies with harsh lye soap, forbade them to speak their languages or practice their traditions, and assigned them new names....