Applications open for 2025 Movement Fund Project Awards
Native Movement is excited to invite grant applications for two thematic open calls. Applicants may submit an application proposal for one of two themes outlined below.
Accepting Applications:
September 1 through October 20, 2025
Selection Process:
October 20, 2025-December 15, 2025
Funding Release:
February 2026
Note: Applicants must be Alaska Native (Indigenous to Alaska), live full-time in Alaska, and be at least 18 years old. Projects taking place in rural Alaska receive priority consideration. You can apply online or download the form to print, e-mail or snail mail!
Theme 1: Alaska Native Language Open Call
The Alaska Native Language Open Call is designed to support and empower Indigenous language learning and visibility across Alaska. We recognize that Indigenous language learning can transmit Indigenous worldviews, joy, and knowledge of our shared histories while helping to counter systematic erasure of our cultural identities. We invite applicants to build upon existing projects or promote new projects that grow opportunities for language sharing and language learning.
Projects that fit within the Alaska Native Language Open Call include the development of language focused culture camps, language study groups, translation and documentation work, support for after-school language programs, Indigenous theater projects, curriculum development, and place naming and/or signage, among other projects.
Theme 2: Resistance Open Call
Indigenous communities have long sought solutions to preserve, protect, and assert control of our cultural lifeways. The Resistance Open call is focused on protecting and advocating for water/land/human interests.
Projects that fit with this Open Call might support activities around environmental justice, land-based learning, site stewardship, strengthening community connectivity, and supporting wellness through ceremony.
The “Open Call” Movement Fund is a recognition that there is essential work happening that we are not always aware of, and by soliciting applications broadly, we can expand the scope and vision of this fund. The intention of this fund is to increase access to capital for Indigenous artists and community developers in order to amplify liberatory, grassroots and Queer/BIPOC led initiatives.
Native Movement’s Open Call Movement Fund aims to inspire and support movements for social justice, Indigenous rights, and the rights of Mother Earth through the direct funding of grassroots, intergenerational, and collective leadership efforts. The Movement Fund seeks to redistribute single one-time grants of $5,000-$25,000 to individual Alaska Native artists or artist collectives based full-time in Alaska.
Here Are Some Examples of What Types of Project Might Fit Into the Various Tiers of Funding:
Grants in the $5,000 range might support individual art projects.
Grants in the $5,000-$15,000 range might support artist pairings among highly experienced artists and those who are learning and practicing various art forms.
Grants in the $15,000-$25,000 range might support collaborative arts projects such as hide tanning camps.