California Natural Resources Agency

Audience(s): Tribes, non-tribal government partners, NGO partners

Tribal Stewardship Policy priorities: Strengthening Tribal Partnerships; Funding Stewardship; Durability

Objectives: This toolkit entry includes a webinar featuring practitioners and philanthropic partners, who discuss opportunities for funding and financing ancestral land return, including through philanthropic partnerships and other relationships. 

This toolkit entry was developed to support the implementation of California Natural Resources Agency’s Tribal Stewardship Policy and Toolkit. This webinar and associated resources are intended to increase the capacity of tribes, state agencies, and non-tribal entities to advance tribal stewardship, including tribal access, collaboration, and ancestral land return according to the CNRA Tribal Stewardship Policy.

This toolkit entry includes a webinar featuring practitioners and philanthropic partners, who discuss opportunities for funding and financing ancestral land return, including through philanthropic partnerships and other relationships.

Explore the resources below to learn more about building relationships with philanthropy to advance tribal stewardship and to find examples of successful tribal stewardship projects that leveraged philanthropic funding.

Watch the webinar

This webinar features Brittany Schulman, the Chief Programs Officer at Native Americans in Philanthropy, as well as Ben Fryer, the Associate State Director for California at The Conservation Fund. Also featured are Matt Keller, Senior Program Officer, and Chuck Striplen, Program Officer, both at Resources Legacy Fund. Hear from these speakers about the Five Rs of Indigenous Philanthropy, best practices for developing philanthropic partnerships, and opportunities for engaging with these organizations to advance tribal stewardship in California.

Tools

• Find funding:
  • Tribal Funding Registry
  • NAP Grants Page
• Tribes can become members of Native Americans in Philanthropy for free—learn more on the NAP Membership Information page.

Resources

• Organizations to know:
  • Native Americans in Philanthropy (NAP)
    • Tribes can become members of NAP for free—learn more on the NAP Membership Information page.
  • The Conservation Fund
  • Resources Legacy Fund
    • Check out Resource Legacy Fund’s Tribal Stewardship and Sovereignty Network
• Learn more about philanthropy and Indigenous communities:
  • Indigenous Centered: Improving Equity and Accountability for Native American Communities with Community Foundations
  • Indigenous Philanthropic Professionals Report
  • Tribal Co-Stewardship and Co-Management of U.S. Ocean and Marine Waters
  • The Five Rs of Indigenous Philanthropy
• Case Studies
  • Review examples of how Indigenous communities have worked with The Conservation Fund to advance tribal stewardship in these slides.
    • Read about the Hoopa Valley Tribe's land return of Hupa Mountain
    • Read about the land return project in partnership with the Tule River Tribe in this press release from the Governor’s office, this Los Angeles Times article, and this feature by California Native Plant Society