February 11, 1999 | Read Time: 1 minute
National Directory of Foundation Grants for Native Americans
By Phyllis A. Meiners
From 1988 to 1996, grants made by U.S. foundations to American Indian-related causes rose from $11-million to $65-million, Ms. Meiners reports.
Adjusted for inflation, that translates into roughly a $50-million increase over those eight years. Ms. Meiners, a fund raiser and president of Corporate Resource Consultants, in Kansas City, Mo., asserts that now is an ideal time for American Indians to take advantage of that proliferation of grant dollars.
The directory profiles 56 private, corporate, community, and religious grant makers that award funds designed to benefit American Indians.
Each entry contains contact information, a list of directors and key officials, application deadlines, grant-making priorities and restrictions, a description of the foundation’s origin and mission, and sample grants. That last category includes grants made not only to American Indian causes, but to programs that Ms. Meiners deems to be of related interest, such as projects intended to benefit other minority groups.
Some of the grant makers place American Indians among their top priorities, such as the Edouard Foundation, in New York. Almost all of the funds listed are national in scope and hold assets of several million dollars.
Indexes list the entries by subject and by geographic region, including funds that give to indigenous groups in foreign countries, and by U.S. states and cities.
Publisher: CRC Publishing Company-EagleRock Books, P.O. Box 22583, Kansas City, Mo. 64113-2583; (816) 361-2059 or (800) 268-2059; fax (816) 361-2115; e-mail crcpub@crn.org; World-Wide Web http://www.crcpub.com; 205 pages; $99.95 plus $6 postage and handling; I.S.B.N. 0-9633694-8-2.
