NDN Collective Abundance Fund Meeting – Completing the Application

The NDN Collective Abundance Fund provides wealth building grants to Indigenous people who reside within the tri-state region of Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota. The program supports the re-building of generational wealth, while beginning to address the wealth gap among Indigenous individuals and families. This is just one action that supports the advancement of our work to Defend, Develop, and Decolonize. This grant is an opportunity to advance the dismantling of colonial thinking that created exploitative and extractive economic systems that have negatively impacted our People and communities. This work is centered around a redefinition of wealth from our Indigenous perspective, rather than the western definition of wealth that is rooted in capitalism which promotes the accumulation of money and material possessions often without regard to the protection of people and Mother Earth. The NDN Collective Abundance Fund embraces the following definition of wealth: