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The American Indian Alaska Native Tourism Association Returns to IPW 2024 & Introduces NativeAmerica.Travel Booking Platform as the $15.7 Billion Indigenous Tourism Industry Grows in the U.S.
The American Indian Alaska Native Tourism Association Returns to IPW 2024 & Introduces NativeAmerica.Travel Booking Platform as the $15.7 Billion Indigenous Tourism Industry Grows in the U.S. Indigenous exhibitors join AIANTA to showcase cultural diversity of U.S....
The California National Historic Trail Poster Contest for Nevada Native Artists
The California National Historic Trail Poster Contest for Nevada Native ArtistsMay 14, 2024; 10 a.m. (Mountain) Thousands of travelers each year travel Nevada’s Oregon/California Trail to learn about this historic route. As part of their mission, “to define,...
AIANTA Seeks Indigenous Hosts for Upcoming American Indigenous Tourism Conferences
AIANTA Seeks Indigenous Hosts for Upcoming American Indigenous Tourism Conferences AIANTA requests proposals for the 2026 and 2027 American Indigenous Tourism Conferences ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (April 22, 2024) – The American Indian Alaska Native Tourism Association...
Registration Now Open for the 26th Annual American Indigenous Tourism Conference
Registration Now Open for the 26th Annual American Indigenous Tourism Conference AITC, scheduled for October 28-31, 2024, at Paragon Casino Resort, is organized by the American Indian Alaska Native Tourism Association and will be held on the tribal homelands of the...
NativeAmerica.Travel Reimagined
NativeAmerica.Travel Reimagined: Your Free Resource to Promote Indigenous Destinations and ExperiencesApril 30, 2024; 10 a.m. (Mountain) Join us for an webinar on the re-launch of NativeAmerica.Travel! Discover how AIANTA members can maximize visibility, access...
American Indian Alaska Native Tourism Association CEO Appointed to U.S. Travel Association Board of Directors
American Indian Alaska Native Tourism Association CEO Appointed to U.S. Travel Association Board of Directors The leading voice of the $15.7 billion Indigenous hospitality sector of travel and tourism in the U.S. continues to have a seat at the national tourism...
The Office of Indian Economic Development and American Indian Alaska Native Tourism Association Award Recipients for FY24 NATIVE Act Capacity Building Grants
The Office of Indian Economic Development and American Indian Alaska Native Tourism Association Award Recipients for FY24 NATIVE Act Capacity Building Grants Five recipients across the U.S. will receive funding for capacity building support to enhance and expand...
Adventures Through Careers in the Outdoors
Adventures Through Careers in the OutdoorsAdventures Through Careers in the Outdoors March 26, 2024; 10 a.m. (Mountain) Are you interested in sharing your Native cultural knowledge with the public? Are you passionate about the outdoors, conservation and learning new...
The U.S. Forest Service and AIANTA Select Recipients for FY 23 NATIVE Act Grants
The U.S. Forest Service and American Indian Alaska Native Tourism Association Select Recipients for FY 23 NATIVE Act Grants Six recipients across the U.S. will receive funding for tourism infrastructure and capacity building in Native American communities ALBUQUERQUE,...
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Funding Opportunities
DOT/FHWA: Development Deployment of Innovative Technologies for Concrete Pavements
Deadline: May 20, 2024
Tourism Tip: Use innovative technologies relating to the design, production, testing, control, construction, investigation, operation and impacts of concrete pavements.
MAP Round 2 2024 Request for Proposals (RFP)
Deadline: May 20, 2024
Tourism Tip: Create lasting change to activities on National Forest System lands or adjacent public lands.
Rural Development Broadband ReConnect Program
Deadline: May 21, 2024
Tourism Tip: Use loans or grant funds for costs of construction, improvement or acquisition of facilities and equipment needed to provide broadband service.
National Endowment for the Humanities: Cultural and Community Resilience
Deadline: May 22, 2024
Tourism Tip: Address the impacts of climate change by safeguarding cultural resources and fostering cultural resilience through identifying, documenting and/or collecting cultural heritage and community experiences.
First Nations Development Institute Advancing Tribal Nature-Based Solutions
Deadline: May, 22, 2024
Tourism Tip: to support climate action through nature-based solutions based on Native knowledge.
Western SARE: Research and Education Invitation for Proposal
Deadline: May 23, 2024
Tourism Tip: Develop a project incorporating research and education that brings together a team of researchers, students, ag professionals and producers.
Natural Resources Conservation Service Grazing Lands Conservation Initiative
Deadline: May 26, 2024
Tourism Tip: Develop a more strategic and comprehensive approach to support grazing systems, reach underserved producers and address climate change.
NPS Historic Preservation Fund Tribal Historic Preservation Office Grants
Deadline: May 30, 2024
Tourism Tip: Preserve historic properties and cultural traditions through the designation of a Tribal Historic Preservation Office or annual THPO grant funding.
Clean Energy Technology Deployment on Tribal Lands
Deadline: May 30, 2024
Tourism Tip: Install clean energy technology and/or energy efficiency measures on Tribal lands.
Newman’s Own Foundation: Food Justice for Kids Prize – Indigenous Food Justice
Deadline: May 30, 2024
Tourism Tip: Reclaim traditional food practices and systems to enable Indigenous children to learn about, grow, gather and cook Native foods.
USDA Rural Cooperative Development Grants
Deadline: May 31, 2024
Tourism Tip: Start, improve or expand rural cooperatives and other mutually-owned businesses to help improve economic conditions in rural areas.
Union Pacific Foundation Community Ties Giving Program: Local Grants
Deadline: May 31, 2024
Tourism Tip: Create, sustain or expand artistic and cultural experiences, provide recreational opportunities or preserve and restore nature along the UP footprint.
NEH Public Impact Projects at Smaller Organizations (PIPSO)
Deadline: June 12, 2024 (anticipated)
Tourism Tip: Use interpretive strategies to advance your public programming, strengthen interpretive skill sets or enhance community engagement.
DOE Clean Energy to Communities
Deadline: June 14, 2024 (anticipated)
Tourism Tip: Help your community understand different institutional contexts, resources, challenges, opportunities and ambitions to implement clean energy.
USFS Tribal Wildlife Grant Program
Deadline: June 21, 2024
Tourism Tip: Use for planning or managing programs to benefit wildlife and their habitat, especially those with cultural or traditional importance. Funding can also be used for mapping, surveys and public education.
National Forest Foundation Matching Awards Program
Deadline: June 21, 2024
Tourism Tip: Provide opportunities for your community to benefit from activities on National Forest System lands or adjacent public lands.
Bank of America Charitable Foundation
Deadline: June 21, 2024
Tourism Tip: Focus on economic mobility in small businesses and support for community arts and cultural institutions.
USDA Rural Energy for America Renewable Energy Systems & Energy Efficiency Improvement Loans & Grants
Deadlines: June 30, and September 30, 2024
Tourism Tip: Use guaranteed loan financing or grant funding for renewable energy systems or to make energy efficiency improvements.
National Credit Union Administration Community Development Revolving Loan Fund
Deadline: July 1, 2024
Tourism Tip: Use loans and technical assistance grants to help your credit union support the communities and tourism enterprises they operate.
Deadline: July 11, 2024
Tourism Tip: Use the funds to assist with art projects that tell the story of your place and culture. Grants are available for arts projects in a variety of artistic disciplines.
National Forest Foundation’s Collaborative Capacity Program for Forests & Communities
Deadline: July 11, 2024
Tourism Tip: Support collaboration-based activities to benefit forests and grasslands currently managed by the US Forest Service through the National Forest System.
NPS Cultural Resources Management Services
Deadline: July 15, 2024
Tourism Tip: Work in partnership with the NPS to conduct various activities, including, but not limited to, studies outlined in the NPS Cultural Resource Management Guidelines.
VIA Art Fund Artistic Production Grants
Deadline: July 18, 2024
Tourism Tip: Awards to individual artists, nonprofit organizations or institutions to support new artistic commissions outside museum or gallery walls, within the public realm or in nontraditional exhibition environments.
O’Reilly Automotive Foundation Inc.
Deadline: July 31, 2024
Tourism Tip: In communities with O’Reilly Auto Parts companies, create a project that addresses economic stability in your tourism programs.
Deadline: August 1, 2024
Tourism Tip: Develop a placemaking project that integrates arts, culture, and design activities to strengthen communities over the long term.
America Walks: Community Change Grants
Deadline: October 17, 2024
Tourism Tip: Use funds to create change and walking opportunities within your community.
NDN Collective Community Action Fund
Deadline: October 31, 2024
Tourism Tip: Support climate disaster response efforts to climate disasters such as flooding, fires and earthquakes.
Western SARE Professional Development Program
Deadline: November 1, 2024
Tourism Tip: Engage professionals to conduct educational programs and activities that incorporate environmental, economic and social dimensions of agriculture.
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail
Native American Agriculture Fund
Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail
Bureau of Land Management
National Endowment of the Arts
National Park Service
United States Forest Service
