Current Initiatives
As the leading national advocate for urban Indian families, the National Urban Indian Family Coalition is working with our network on a series of vital projects across the country. These initiatives continue our work of building a movement that promotes visibility, enhances resources, and mobilizes systems to be more reflective of the needs of urban Indian issues.
Currently, the NUIFC is focused on the following initiatives:
Democracy is Indigenous invests directly in urban Indian nonprofits to ensure voices are heard. We know that resources follow policy and that policy follows elections, so we've committed to building a powerful cohort of organizations that advocate for the needs of our communities. This work goes beyond voter registration; we focus on creating sustainable year-round efforts that empower people to see that civic engagement goes beyond Election Day.
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Weaving our Web
To continue the NUIFC's mission to support of creating thriving urban Native America communities, we are proud to share the Weaving Our Web Digital Equity Fund (WOW), and its work to close the digital divide can be. This coalition of 15 urban Indian non-profits across 13 states working to educate our communities about different internet affordability options, improve people’s digital infrastructure, and develop relationships with other like-minded organizations.
Thriving Cities
Since 2021, NUIFC has partnered with urban Native service nonprofits to strengthen their ability to access public human services funding. Thriving Cities formalizes that commitment. By supporting our member organizations in engaging the local elected officials and agencies that govern human services systems, we help ensure those systems actually invest in the communities that depend on them most..
policy at nuifc
Our policy work is grounded in Democracy Is Indigenous, our framework rooted in the understanding that self-determination and collective decision-making are not concepts Native peoples borrowed from American democracy. They are Indigenous values, practiced since long before the systems we now navigate were created.