Nunavut Inuit org offers funding for culture, healing programs
NTI will dole out $25,000 to 10 different initiatives this year
Children learn from elders how to build an igloo in April 2018, during a gathering at Sirmilik National Park organized by Parks Canada. Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. is currently seeking to support more on-the-land programs that teach Inuit history, traditions and languages through its new Cultural and Healing Program. The fund also aims to support projects that address the harms and intergenerational impacts of residential schools. (Photo courtesy of Parks Canada)
Nunavut’s Inuit birthright organization has launched a new fund to support cultural and healing programs in the territory.
On May 1, Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. opened the application period for its new Cultural and Healing Program, which will offer 10 applicants up to $25,000 each per year to help fund their initiatives.
The funding is focused on two main categories: projects that address the harms and intergenerational impacts of residential schools, as well as on-the-land programs that teach Inuit history, traditions and languages.
Any individual Inuit or group of Inuit enrolled under the Nunavut Agreement is eligible to apply for the new funding until May 31, 2019.
Non-profit organizations, educational institutions, urban or friendship centres, and early childhood centres—even those based outside the territory—are also eligible to apply so long as their programming targets a minimum of 75 per cent Nunavut Inuit clientele.
The new program was launched with the remainder of the Common Experience Payment Trust Fund, money NTI received on behalf of former residential school students that was put in trust with the Nunavut Tunngavik Foundation.
You can read more about the program and download application forms here.
As an individual, I can only dream of this program. Residential school destroyed my life, and yet this program for me is unattainable, even though I would very much appreciate if I can get some help from this program.
Hey Tommy. This isn’t a specific program, this is offering funding for people to start programs. If you wanted to start a program, you could apply for funding. Or, perhaps you’ll be able to benefit from a program that somebody else runs using this funding.