Summer is a great time for grants and fundraising research and planning! Our Native Language Revitalization Campaign works closely with our partners supporting grantwriting activities which strengthen local community efforts to create new fluent speakers of Indigenous languages. Major federal funding is available from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Administration for Native Americans (ANA). Applications to NSF's Documenting Endangered Languages program are due September 15, and support individual research fellowships for up to one year, as well as multi-year projects. Examples of successful applications are available from NSF. ANA grants are due in first quarter of 2010; we recommend that communities begin the planning process now in order to coordinate detailed work plans, tribal council resolutions, and budgets which require applicants to meet a 20 percent matching requirement for the total project cost.
