Community First Development
For more than 20 years Community First Development has backed the aspirations of First Peoples in Australia through community-led solutions. They have worked with…
Supporting Indigenous-led initiatives, organizations, and networks
Tamalpais Trust’s primary purpose is to promote and protect Indigenous cultures, lifeways, and ancestral connections to land and water.
Through grants and investments, we support and strengthen Indigenous-led initiatives, organizations, and networks. Tamalpais Trust is led by Indigenous women, whose lived experience grounds our work in Indigenous ways of knowing and being.
Our Regions
Our current geographic priorities are Turtle Island (Canada, United States, and Mexico), Abya Yala (Central and South America), Arctic Circumpolar, and Moananuiākea (Pacific region following the kelp highway and Austronesian migration) and Australia.
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Grant Partners
We are proud to stand alongside partners working across a range of efforts, from language revitalization to nurturing food sovereignty to reclaiming lands and territories. Our support is grounded in service to the vision of our partners, and honors the needs, priorities and self-determination of each partner.
Featured Partners
First Peoplesʻ Cultural Council
First Peoplesʻ Cultural Council (FPCC) is a First Nations-governed provincial Crown corporation with a mandate to support the revitalization of First Nations languages, arts,…
Hui Mālama I Ke Ala ʻŪlili (huiMAU)
ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiian) families in Hāmākua on the northeast coast of Hawaiʻi Island founded Hui Mālama I Ke Ala ʻŪlili (huiMAU) in 2011 to…
Community Investments
At Tamalpais Trust, we believe that access to capital is a critical factor in developing capacity and promoting long-term, self-directed prosperity and economic opportunity within Native American and other Indigenous communities. Through our Community Investments program, we have invested capital directly in Indigenous-owned businesses and nonprofits. We have also invested through intermediaries such as Oweesta Corporation, which facilitates the financing of Native Community Development Finance Institutions (CDFIs) to provide capital within their own communities.
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30+ community investments increasing Native economic sovereignty and building financial capacity.