Funding

SACNAS Annual Conference Travel Scholarship

Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics & Native Americans in Science

Deadline: Mar 27, 2026

SACNAS provides conference scholarships that include funded travel, lodging, and/or registration for undergraduate and graduate students to attend the SACNAS Annual Conference. Accepted awardees will also have access to specialized programming to welcome and orient them to the conference in October.

Senate Bill 1 Sea Level Rise Adaptation Grant Program – Track 1

$200,000-$1,500,000 per award; $12,795,366 total available

California Ocean Protection Council

The goal of the Senate Bill 1 Sea Level Rise Adaptation Planning Grant Program (SB 1 Grant Program) is to support the implementation of SB 1 (Atkins, 2021) for local, regional, and tribal governments. Ultimately, the SB 1 Grant Program aims to provide funding for coastal communities to develop consistent sea level rise (SLR) adaptation plans and projects to build resilience to SLR along the entire coast of California and San Francisco Bay. The SB 1 Grant Program aims to provide funding for sea level rise (SLR) adaptation planning to help prepare communities for the impacts of climate change. While many jurisdictions have advanced planning already underway or complete, many others have yet to begin comprehensive planning or assessments. The Ocean Protection Council (OPC) aims to address this need by offering funding for a range of SLR planning activities. Track One proposals (Projects in the Pre-planning, Data Collection, and Planning Phases) will be accepted through a rolling, quarterly, non-competitive process, provided the proposals satisfy the Sea Level Rise Adaptation Criteria and requirements of the SB 1 Grant Program solicitation.

Tribal Homekey+

Approximately $121 million total available; capital awards can reach up to $12 million per application.

California Department of Housing and Community Development

The Tribal Homekey+ Program supports the development of permanent housing for people and households experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness, and who are also living with a Behavioral Health Challenge. The program provides an opportunity for Tribes and Tribal Entities to develop multifamily rental housing developments, including rehabilitation of existing housing, new construction of apartments, townhomes, or single-family rental homes, including manufactured housing, or conversion of non-residential space to residential housing. Rather than utilizing a set-aside within the standard Homekey Program, this NOFA operates independently and is tailored to meet the specific affordable housing needs of California Tribes.

Native American Preparedness Tribal Grant

$10,000 total estimated available funding; award amounts are dependent.

California Department of Fish and Wildlife

The Tribal Preparedness Grant is part of the Office of Spill Prevention and Response Program and supports California Native American tribes in preparing for and enhancing emergency preparedness, response, and recovery efforts while protecting their ancestral lands and communities from oil spills.

SACNAS Annual Conference Call for Research Presentations

Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics & Native Americans in Science

Through student Research Presentations, the SACNAS Annual Conference equips young researchers with the skills and mentoring needed to be successful on their STEM journeys. Accepted applicants will have the opportunity to enhance their presentation skills, receive personalized mentoring and research feedback, and engage with a supportive community of peers, mentors, and role models throughout the annual conference.

Native Cultures Fund Grants

$1,000-$10,000, with most grants between $1,000 and $5,000

Native Cultures Fund / Humboldt Area Foundation

Deadline: Apr 15, 2026

Grants can be made to individuals, non-profits, community partnerships, or Tribal Nations. They are made to projects that reflect the transmission of knowledge across generations, based in California Indian culture, art, values, and traditional practices. We define culture in the broadest possible way: As the foodways, languages and cosmologies, ceremony, sacred sites, sports, architecture, arts, teachings and knowledge systems, stories, music, dance, land stewardship, hydrology, maritime traditions, and much more that are indigenous to California. The Native Cultures Fund supports cultural projects with a connection to the lands commonly referred to as California spanning from the Tolowa Dee-ni’ in the north, to the Chumash peoples in the south, and east to the Paiute and Washo peoples along the Nevada border.