{"id":33555,"date":"2021-10-01T23:20:56","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T04:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/native-american-agriculture-fund-announces-14-million-in-grants-awarded\/"},"modified":"2021-10-01T23:20:57","modified_gmt":"2021-10-02T04:20:57","slug":"native-american-agriculture-fund-announces-14-million-in-grants-awarded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/native-american-agriculture-fund-announces-14-million-in-grants-awarded\/","title":{"rendered":"Native American Agriculture Fund announces $14 million in grants awarded"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"likebtn_container\" style=\"\"><!-- LikeBtn.com BEGIN --><span class=\"likebtn-wrapper\"  data-identifier=\"post_33555\"  data-site_id=\"63347fe36fd08b6c05de3d9e\"  data-dislike_enabled=\"false\"  data-icon_dislike_show=\"false\"  data-white_label=\"true\"  data-style=\"\"  data-unlike_allowed=\"\"  data-show_copyright=\"\"  data-item_url=\"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/native-american-agriculture-fund-announces-14-million-in-grants-awarded\/\"  data-item_title=\"Native American Agriculture Fund announces $14 million in grants awarded\"  data-item_image=\"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/files\/2021\/10\/NA-AG-fund-logo.png\"  data-item_date=\"2021-10-01T23:20:56-05:00\"  data-engine=\"WordPress\"  data-plugin_v=\"2.6.59\"  data-prx=\"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=likebtn_prx\"  data-event_handler=\"likebtn_eh\" ><\/span><!-- LikeBtn.com END --><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/files\/2021\/10\/NA-AG-fund-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24225\" src=\"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/files\/2021\/10\/NA-AG-fund-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Native American Agriculture Fund (NAAF) announces $14 million in grants awarded to 54 organizations serving Native producers.\u00a0This investment directly benefits 141 sovereign Tribal Nations in 26 different states,\u00a0impacting\u00a0nearly 125,000 Native farmers, ranchers, fishers, harvesters, and community producers.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the third year of grantmaking from the Native American Agriculture Fund in addition to \u2018fast track\u2019 grants distributed in 2018 to organizations following the\u00a0<em>Keepseagle\u00a0v. Vilsack\u00a0<\/em>class action settlement. Grants awarded increase access to capital and diversify Native American agriculture economies through business assistance, agricultural education, technical support, and advocacy services to support Native farmers and ranchers.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s investment will\u00a0dedicate<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$4.6 million to Community Development Financial Institutions<\/li>\n<li>$2.2 million to 501(c)3 Organizations<\/li>\n<li>$1.5 million to Tribal Governments<\/li>\n<li>$1 million to Educational Organizations<\/li>\n<li>$1 million to Agricultural Infrastructure<\/li>\n<li>$2.7 million to Beginning Farmers and Ranchers<\/li>\n<li>$1 million to Climate Resilience and Conservation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur top priority at NAAF is advancing Native American Agriculture. The 2021 funding announcement provides an additional $14 million directly invested within Indian Country. Through COVID-19, we have seen the essential need to build and invest in resilient food economies and enhance the work Native producers have been cultivating for generations. Our third round of funding is another step forward improving livelihoods, the land, and the health of our people.\u201d said Toni Stanger-McLaughlin, CEO of the Native American Agriculture Fund.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to today\u2019s $14 million investment,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001In-SOQRmF253X0mfaOy1tRyaPzKBRCQgkZNjBrs9QytQM2HrQEnD6BBYHEhXCIV7QBUTrnylPVQFXvHgGLmBtfMkgfFDD9fcuY7I31lhbaEZNwAwPgMI5a2NN0a-lYS2K8Q-ASb8mTfMmKkior-MPXIobQgu8BUNrXQMjRb66XLKh39TqqmvJNCYyf899DOPUSNHPIyDZ_AGaxP6eB6vEw==&#038;c=9XU7ZvbtriEfSrxraOdvDE7F6-qc_M3iJlEUrXKYnM5tHL0pDRRDyg==&#038;ch=iGS9PoYZlIS-_6-Fp5pF9B0OZVbLdKY1lRh4JpaFCnkIoSFKTT67Pw==\">NAAF\u00a0awarded $1 million in grants<\/a>\u00a0to organizations serving Native Youth earlier in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about this investment in Indian Country\u2019s food system, view NAAF\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001In-SOQRmF253X0mfaOy1tRyaPzKBRCQgkZNjBrs9QytQM2HrQEnD6DSIDiMmmrU9bYBgZKPFtev3qqnvmJtcxgvoIvThjukAo7uO27y54oTTmlNMhB2P7lXKISmQoQqRh5OP1ScHiV6eIzjmc-6wDmWumdyvjKszWQZ_-5f5KfgM8tx22-X23Sc4UefyE9vp&#038;c=9XU7ZvbtriEfSrxraOdvDE7F6-qc_M3iJlEUrXKYnM5tHL0pDRRDyg==&#038;ch=iGS9PoYZlIS-_6-Fp5pF9B0OZVbLdKY1lRh4JpaFCnkIoSFKTT67Pw==\">list of grantees<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001In-SOQRmF253X0mfaOy1tRyaPzKBRCQgkZNjBrs9QytQM2HrQEnD6DSIDiMmmrU9cMp7kAje1syX0IyvWqQVQ_ndShjyoSfP1G5_k_I_1OvBM3EDfKiSZxb30ZnwkLYvC1uf8OslcUbHwUID4Yo7cIUHPJXVnyZY1lZJLB_7xHWIiIU3t-carVT-rAI_01_T4-XQHvWRRqgYPV4sYWermilH_BtpWaH3PDrOx1qtF_ze0ObioPDxGpyfbBOUEH9KkATZGG5j9t4=&#038;c=9XU7ZvbtriEfSrxraOdvDE7F6-qc_M3iJlEUrXKYnM5tHL0pDRRDyg==&#038;ch=iGS9PoYZlIS-_6-Fp5pF9B0OZVbLdKY1lRh4JpaFCnkIoSFKTT67Pw==\">factsheet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nativesunnews.today\/articles\/native-american-agriculture-fund-announces-14-million-in-grants-awarded\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Native American Agriculture Fund announces  million in grants awarded<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nativesunnews.today\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Native Sun News Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"likebtn_container\" style=\"\"><!-- LikeBtn.com BEGIN --><span class=\"likebtn-wrapper\"  data-identifier=\"post_33555\"  data-site_id=\"63347fe36fd08b6c05de3d9e\"  data-dislike_enabled=\"false\"  data-icon_dislike_show=\"false\"  data-white_label=\"true\"  data-style=\"\"  data-unlike_allowed=\"\"  data-show_copyright=\"\"  data-item_url=\"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/native-american-agriculture-fund-announces-14-million-in-grants-awarded\/\"  data-item_title=\"Native American Agriculture Fund announces $14 million in grants awarded\"  data-item_image=\"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/files\/2021\/10\/NA-AG-fund-logo.png\"  data-item_date=\"2021-10-01T23:20:56-05:00\"  data-engine=\"WordPress\"  data-plugin_v=\"2.6.59\"  data-prx=\"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=likebtn_prx\"  data-event_handler=\"likebtn_eh\" ><\/span><!-- LikeBtn.com END --><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nativesunnews.today\/articles\/native-american-agriculture-fund-announces-14-million-in-grants-awarded\/\" target=\"_blank\">Visit Original Source<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"likebtn_container\" style=\"\"><!-- LikeBtn.com BEGIN --><span class=\"likebtn-wrapper\"  data-identifier=\"post_33555\"  data-site_id=\"63347fe36fd08b6c05de3d9e\"  data-dislike_enabled=\"false\"  data-icon_dislike_show=\"false\"  data-white_label=\"true\"  data-style=\"\"  data-unlike_allowed=\"\"  data-show_copyright=\"\"  data-item_url=\"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/native-american-agriculture-fund-announces-14-million-in-grants-awarded\/\"  data-item_title=\"Native American Agriculture Fund announces $14 million in grants awarded\"  data-item_image=\"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/files\/2021\/10\/NA-AG-fund-logo.png\"  data-item_date=\"2021-10-01T23:20:56-05:00\"  data-engine=\"WordPress\"  data-plugin_v=\"2.6.59\"  data-prx=\"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=likebtn_prx\"  data-event_handler=\"likebtn_eh\" ><\/span><!-- LikeBtn.com END --><\/div><p>The Native American Agriculture Fund (NAAF) announces $14 million in grants awarded to 54 organizations serving Native producers.\u00a0This investment directly benefits 141 sovereign Tribal Nations in 26 different states,\u00a0impacting\u00a0nearly 125,000 Native farmers, ranchers, fishers, harvesters, and community producers. This marks the third year of grantmaking from the Native American Agriculture <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/native-american-agriculture-fund-announces-14-million-in-grants-awarded\/\">Read More<\/a><br \/><img alt='' src='https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/files\/avatars\/1541\/5d01b3efac7c3-bpthumb.png' srcset='https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/files\/avatars\/1541\/5d01b3efa3bc2-bpfull.png 2x' class='avatar avatar-32 photo' height='32' width='32' loading='lazy' decoding='async'\/>  Shared by <a href=\"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/membership-directory\/nativesunweekly\/profile\">Native Sun News Today<\/a>  October 1, 2021<\/p>\n<div class=\"likebtn_container\" style=\"\"><!-- LikeBtn.com BEGIN --><span class=\"likebtn-wrapper\"  data-identifier=\"post_33555\"  data-site_id=\"63347fe36fd08b6c05de3d9e\"  data-dislike_enabled=\"false\"  data-icon_dislike_show=\"false\"  data-white_label=\"true\"  data-style=\"\"  data-unlike_allowed=\"\"  data-show_copyright=\"\"  data-item_url=\"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/native-american-agriculture-fund-announces-14-million-in-grants-awarded\/\"  data-item_title=\"Native American Agriculture Fund announces $14 million in grants awarded\"  data-item_image=\"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/files\/2021\/10\/NA-AG-fund-logo.png\"  data-item_date=\"2021-10-01T23:20:56-05:00\"  data-engine=\"WordPress\"  data-plugin_v=\"2.6.59\"  data-prx=\"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=likebtn_prx\"  data-event_handler=\"likebtn_eh\" ><\/span><!-- LikeBtn.com END --><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1541,"featured_media":33556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5627],"tags":[10105,6659,3222],"class_list":["post-33555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-resource-directory-blog","tag-archive","tag-environment","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1541"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}