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** Double Your Impact: Honor Indigenous Values with Every Gift
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Dear Friend,
Did you know that Indigenous Peoples remain the most under-resourced recipients of philanthropic funding - receiving less than half of one percent of total foundation dollars?
That's why we need support from donors like you. ([link removed]) With your help, we can strengthen Indigenous-led solutions and provide meaningful, on-the-ground support to communities working to build a more just and sustainable world.
Your gift to Cultural Survival is an act of solidarity and activism. ([link removed]) It empowers Indigenous communities to protect their rights, steward their lands, and create lasting, positive change. If you haven’t yet made your end-of-year contribution, we would be deeply grateful for your support.
Your gift can now go twice as far ([link removed]) thanks to our board of directors, who have generously committed to match all gifts made through December 31 up to our year-end goal of $250,000! ([link removed]) Your contribution helps us integrate 4 core values—Relationship, Responsibility, Reciprocity, and Redistribution—that are central to many Indigenous cultures, guiding our work to create sustainable, transformative change.
1. Relationship
Through our Indigenous-led funds, including our Keepers of the Earth (KOEF) Fund ([link removed]) , grants go directly to Indigenous communities, collectives, organizations, and governments to support their self-designed development projects. We work to develop trusting relationships with our partners, to support their projects that will serve their communities now and into the future. In October 2024, KOEF partners in Nepal and Mexico were affected by the consequences of climate change in the form of heavy rains that caused flooding, landslides, crop failures, collapsed houses, and cut-off roads.
This year, our fund allocated small emergency grants so that our partners around Kathmandu, Nepal, and Guerrero, Mexico, could provide support and assistance with basic aid, such as food, emergency housing, and medicine. Your investment builds long-term relationships with our partners' communities ([link removed]) , creating a powerful ripple effect, uplifting entire communities, preserving traditional knowledge, and nurturing a resilient and empowered next generation.
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Nepali Majhi Mahila Utthan Sangh (NMMUS), Majhi (Nepal): KOEF funds were used to distribute relief food items to 172 households affected by the floods. Part of the funds were also used to financially support the family of one of the flood victims.
2. Responsibility
Our Advocacy Program ([link removed]) supports Indigenous Peoples around the globe by amplifying grassroots movements to bring awareness and international pressure to their struggles while enhancing Indigenous communities’ capacity, always at the invitation of community leaders, to demand and assert their rights outlined in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Across our programs, we build trust and relationships with our partners - our advocacy program work is the solidarity action that manifests from the responsibility of that trust.
Cultural Survival Delegation at COP30 in Belém, Brazil.
3. Reciprocity
We recognize firsthand the importance of Indigenous media and communications. ([link removed]) Cultural Survival’s communications have been a stronghold for many years and connect Peoples, movements, organizations, and others through storytelling across landscapes, waterways, and issue areas both locally and globally. Through our communications, we work to build awareness, reclaim the narrative, and shift paradigms, consciousness, and agency.
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4. Redistribution
Cultural Survival provides workshops and tailored capacity building ([link removed]) opportunities for our Indigenous partners, especially women and youth, on topics such as leadership, human rights, Indigenous community media, technical skills in radio production and more. In a joint effort to continue raising awareness about the critical situation of Lake Titicaca, our Indigenous Rights Radio Program ([link removed]) organized the event "Listening and Exchange Session: Mama Qota is at Risk ([link removed]) " on March 28 - 29, 2025.
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This gathering brought together community communicators, environmental activists, Indigenous leaders, and researchers from Bolivia and Peru—countries that share the basin of the world's highest navigable lake, which is currently threatened by pollution, extractivism, and climate change. Your contribution aids in the sharing and distributing of information, knowledge, and expertise, strengthening Indigenous leadership. ([link removed])
When you make a gift ([link removed]) to Cultural Survival, it is an act of solidarity and activism, empowering Indigenous Peoples to create lasting positive change for their communities and the planet. Please help us continue this important work for generations to come! ([link removed])
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We need your help to reach our ambitious year-end goal of $250,000! ([link removed]) Thanks to our generous board of directors, all gifts made through December 31 will be matched up to our $250,000 goal. Double the impact of your gift today! ([link removed])
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Cultural Survival advocates for Indigenous Peoples' rights and supports Indigenous communities’ self-determination, cultures and political resilience since 1972. We envision a future that respects and honors Indigenous Peoples' inherent rights and dynamic cultures, deeply and richly interwoven in lands, languages, spiritual traditions, and artistic expression, rooted in self-determination and self-governance.
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