Grantee Partners | Kalliopeia Foundation

Explore the innovative work of some of our recent grantee partners

A group of language keepers presents at a gathering of the Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival.

Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival

Lambs graze in a green pasture.

Agrarian Trust: FaithLands

Alliance for Felix Cove

A Native woman bends down to help a Native child with a craft project in an art classroom.

Amah Mutsun Land Trust

A child’s watercolor painting of trees, river, and fish.

Asociación Quisca: Karuara, People of the River

Atascosa Borderland Project

Black Belt Justice Center: Acres of Ancestry / Black Agrarian Fund

A woman holds a sign that reads "We didn't cross the border. The border crossed us."

Alianza Indígena Sin Fronteras: Healing the Border Project

A group of Canticle Farm residents gather together for a vegetarian supper at a dinner table marked by bouquets of fresh flowers.

Canticle Farm

Center for Earth Jurisprudence

The Center for Education, Imagination and the Natural World

Banner for Kinship podcast series, with a bird's eye, a plant, and a mountain with the word "Kinship."

Center for Humans and Nature: Kinship with the More-Than-Human World

Image of Robin Wall Kimmerer standing in a forest

Center for Native Peoples and the Environment

Center for Spiritual Imagination

CEREMONY

The Chicago Eco House

A hiker on Dog Mountain looks out at the Columbia River Gorge

Coalition of Oregon Land Trusts

Collective Eye Films: Seed: The Untold Story

Two elderly people in traditional Zuni dress sit smiling on a couch.

Colorado Plateau Foundation

Title image for BREATHE, a multisensory experience.

Crimes of Curiosity: BREATHE

A Native woman raises a spear of grain to the light.

The Cultural Conservancy

Two members of D-Town Farm sell produce at their produce stand.

Detroit Black Community Food Security Network

Lawyers from the Earth Law Center stand in front of a presentation on Marine Conservation Solutions.

Earth Law Center

EcoWomanist Institute

Einayach Yonim Fellowship

Young members of the Ekvn-Yefolecv eco-village under a forest canopy with ducklings.

Ekvn-Yefolecv

Fernland Studios

First Nations Development Institute: Native Youth and Culture Fund

First Nations Development Institute: Native Language Immersion Initiative

Ayana Young, For The Wild founder and podcast host, sits in her studio behind a microphone.

For The Wild

The Forum on Religion and Ecology

Dr. Ruby Gibson and Kara Big Crow of Freedom Lodge, sitting in a field in the rolling hills.

Freedom Lodge

Students from the Akwesasne Freedom School stand in a line in the snow wearing traditional Mohawk dress.

Friends of the Akwesasne Freedom School: Akwesasne Freedom School

Wisdom Weavers, 2017 in Kauai, HI

Global Center for Indigenous Leadership and Lifeways

Green Dreamer

Smiling Native elders carry abundant harvests of corn and cabbage in front of a corn field.

Honor the Earth: Native Communities Program

A Native person’s hand holds a sheaf of corn.

The Hopi Foundation

Sammy Gensaw (Yurok) of the youth group The Ancestral Guard prepares salmon in a traditional fashion on the Klamath River in the heart of the Yurok Reservation (northern California).

Illumine Service Foundation: Gather

Spiritual leader Pir Zia Inayat-Khan sits with guest presenters at an event.

Inayatiyya

Karuk Tishanik prescribed burn.

Inhabitants: An Indigenous Perspective

An image of a supernova with the words "Journey of the Universe."

Journey of the Universe

Participants at Kelly Street Garden sit around a table in the garden near a mural.

Kelly Street Garden

Kvöldvaka

A small boy takes a handful of compost from a bucket.

LA Compost

Land Peace Foundation

Participants from Lead to Life stand shoulder-to-shoulder holding shovels that they used to plant trees.

Lead to Life: A People's Alchemy for Regeneration

Rocks covered in moss tumble toward a pebble-strewn creek.

Loam Magazine

Mama Scrap's Home and Farm

Manidoo Ogitigaan

Marshview Community Organic Farm

A man and woman sit by a fire under a shelter and talk.

Migrant Films: The Fire and the Bird's Nest

A painted tent canvas lies flat in the foreground and a sweat lodge stands nearby in a ceremonial area.

Moon Lodge Society

Native youth stand shoulder-to-shoulder in front of a small field of corn.

Na'ah Illahee Fund

An Indigenous woman holds a pod revealing the red bean seeds inside.

Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance

A screen shot from Native Land Digital's website showing Indigenous territories of North America

Native Land Digital

Nihizhí, Our Voices: An Indigenous Solutions Podcast

Penobscot, Passamaquoddy. Micmac and Maliseet are all water nations devoted to the fresh water rivers and salty coastlines of Maine.

New Learning Journey: First Light

Image of an acequia, a traditional irrigating system of New Mexico.

New Mexico Acequia Association

New Mexico Next Generation Traditional Farmers Collective

Creek at Nibezun in Maine.

Nibezun

Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust

Two people standing in a green field.

Nuns & Nones

Ofrenda Magazine

On Being host Krista Tippett interviews a man on stage at a live event.

The On Being Project

"Water Is Life" art print with illustrated fish in a forest.

Onaman Collective

Participants in climate change march carry signs with Buddhist message.

One Earth Sangha

Print copies of Orion Magazine are arranged on a wooden table.

Orion Magazine

Children explore a verdant summer garden.

Passionist Earth and Spirit Center

Native Blackfoot youth seated in a circle play a large drum.

Piegan Institute

Two young women from the Pine Ridge Girls' School wearing regalia.

Pine Ridge Girls' School

Hands dig into the soil to plant an edible shrub.

Planting Justice

Young people and mentors hike in a line up a red rock hill in Arizona.

Pollen Circles, Inc.

An Indigenous person wearing a cedar bark hat with a feather overlooks a group of participants in the Intertribal Canoe Journey.

Potlatch Fund

Rocky Mountain Seed Alliance

Rustic Roots Sanctuary

Sachamama

Youth explore in a verdant park

Sacred Keepers Sustainability Lab

Native youth from the Salish School of Spokane march down a city street with ceremonial drums.

Salish School of Spokane: Native Youth Empowerment Center

Indigenous people crouching in the grass practice fire-making with bow drills.

Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples

A close-up photo of Orland Bishop.

ShadeTree Multicultural Foundation

Arial view of Ohlone land in Oakland, California.

Sogorea Té Land Trust

Spiritual Ecology and Culture participants sit in a large circle in a colorful room.

Soil and Shadow

Healing Black and Indigenous Roots in St. Louis

Solidarity Economy St. Louis: Reclaiming Black and Indigenous Roots, Tradition, and Healing

Participants at Soul Fire Farm pick vegetables.

Soul Fire Farm

St. Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation & Peace: Spiritual Ecology Programme

A group of sustainability leaders pose for a photograph.

Sustainability Leaders Network

University of British Columbia: Dr. Suzanne Simard

An Indigenous woman gathers rushes for traditional basketry in a marsh.

Terralingua

Tribal EcoRestoration Alliance

Dr. Richard Davidson presenting at the first Loka Initiative.

University of Wisconsin–Madison: Loka Initiative

An illustration with four hands facing the in the four directions with an acknowledgment of Indigenous land..

US Department of Arts and Culture: Honor Native Land

Students gather in a standing circle on a farm during the summer.

Wake Forest University School of Divinity: Food, Health and Ecological Well-Being Program

Wallowa Land Trust

Weaving Earth

Three students help one another cross a river.

Wilderness Arts and Literacy Collaborative

A group of people stand in a forest clearing, holding various offerings from nature.

Wilderness Torah

Wimblu

Women panelists stand raising their intertwined hands in front of a PowerPoint screen at a conference.

Women's Earth and Climate Action Network

Joanna Macy stands in front of a tree.

Work That Reconnects with Joanna Macy

Yuchi Language Project