Open Call Movement Fund Overview

2025 Theme: Alaska Native Languages & Resistance

The Open Call 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. 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. Additionally, Indigenous communities have long sought solutions to preserve, protect, and assert control of our cultural life ways through acts of resistance. We invite applicants to build upon existing ongoing projects or propose new projects that are still in the development stage.

The Open call will redistribute single one-time grants of $5,000-$25,000 to individual Alaska Native artists or artist collectives based full-time in Alaska. Funding for this grant is made possible through individual donors, as well as funding support from the Sinew Fund (a project of the Arctic Willow Advisory Group), the Mellon Foundation, and the Kataly Foundation.

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.

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