Colorado Plateau Foundation

The Colorado Plateau Foundation combines grantmaking and programming to build Native-led organizational and community capacity on the Colorado Plateau to protect water, protect sacred places and endangered landscapes, promote food security, and preservation of Native languages. (Substrategy: Advance Conservation Protections)

The Native American-led Colorado Plateau Foundation helps to build more resilient, locally led nonprofits serving native communities on the Colorado Plateau, and supports the work of these organizations to protect water supplies, sacred places, and endangered landscapes; revitalize language; and ensure food security through sustainable, community-based agriculture across the plateau. In particular, their grantees are working to address water supplies contaminated by uranium mining; stop harmful new energy development; and protect and restore cultural landscapes, including in and around Bears Ears National Monument and the Grand Canyon National Park. They also educate philanthropy about the needs and opportunities (or rationale and purpose) for grantmaking in native communities. (Western Conservation Substrategies: Defend Public Lands and Building Conditions for Enduring Conservation.)

This general operating grant supports the nonprofit Colorado Plateau Foundation, which empowers Native-led organizations and tribal entities who are seeking protection of water; protection of sacred sites and endangered landscapes; language revitalization; and sustainable, community-based agriculture in their communities and across the Colorado Plateau.