Description

Arizona Native Vote is a nonpartisan Native-led civic education and voting rights program dedicated to building political power and increasing civic engagement in tribal and rural communities. This general operating grant will help support their core programing aimed at Native voter registration, youth and civic education and communicating with Native voters in Arizona. This grant will support their work to do the following:
·        Voter registration : ANV hires young organizers to learn from experiences organizers to help register Native American voters at community events. Beyond registering voters, through international learning, this program also seeks to build the knowledge and capacity of younger organizers who are working to advance democracy.
·        Educating young people on Democracy : AVN provides culturally relevant civics and organizing curriculum for grades 6-12. ANV works with teachers and schools in tribal and rural communities (Navajo Nation, Hopi, and White Mountain Apache) to provide free, regular, in-classroom presentations around civic engagement and education.
·        Build ANV capacity to better communicate with Native voters : ANV will build their capacity to become a trusted information source for Native voters in Arizona. This will include hiring a communications director that will create original online content around Native voter education, engagement and capture stories from Native communities.
 
This will support IKI program objective 2b: To invest in the efforts of Indigenous communities and leaders to articulate effectively their needs, aspirations, and ideas within policy ecosystems at the state, regional, national and global levels in ways that build support for Native knowledge systems/work.
 
This also aligned with the Foundations’ broader goals to support diverse knowledge communities to enrich public discourse and deepening knowledge in support of a more democratic and just world.