2024-25 Community Environmental Impact Awards Announced by the Indigenous Resilience Center

The Indigenous Resilience Center (IRes) is excited to announce the recipients of the 2024-2025 Community Environmental Impact Awards. These awards were made possible with funding from the Waverley Street Foundation(Waverley). Waverley aims to support climate solutions that are grounded in and emerge from the day-to-day needs of people and local communities. Its grant partners work closely with farmers, students, investors, Indigenous peoples, advocates, and many others.

The 2024-2025 Community Environmental Impact Award is designed to further the work of IRes towards capacity-building, co-design, and co-solving environmental challenges with Indigenous communities taking the lead. With the support of Waverley and IRes, the Community Environmental Impact Awardees will further the mission of IRes to “center Indigenous ways of knowing into co-designed environmental solutions and train the next generation of community leaders.”

This will be a global model of how collaborations among research, outreach, and other community partners that respect Tribal governance and knowledge, can be formed to advance Tribal resilience goals where centering Indigenous ways of knowing into co-designed environmental solutions and training the next generation of community leaders is the focus.

 The 2024-2025 Community Environmental Impact Awardees and their projects are: 

• Pascua Yaqui Tribe - Black Wash Trail Restoration Project;

• Colorado River Indian Tribe (CRIT) - Growing Healthy Food Initiative, and

• San Xavier Co-Op Farm - Oidagkam Himdag Project.

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