Indigenous-Led Co-Creation

Builds and completes classroom projects to expand educational access and improve learning conditions for children who cannot attend regular schools due to poverty or transportation barriers; includes pandemic-related modifications for physical distancing.

Provides educational opportunities and serves children who are excluded from the formal school system due to poverty, ensuring access to structured learning environments.

Organizes fundraising events, including fashion shows and benefit dinners, to secure financial support for its initiatives.

Offers scholarships to deserving students from low-income families attending St Theress College and Ateneo de Manila, enabling access to secondary and higher education.

Provides tools, training, and support to strengthen the effectiveness and operational capacity of nonprofit organizations.

Trains residents of Gawad Kalinga in Mandaluyong, Philippines to maintain community housing projects, promoting long-term sustainability and community ownership.

Engages in advocacy by presenting at international platforms such as the United Nations World Interfaith Harmony Week to promote spiritual connections to water and advocate for Human and Water Rights.

Engages youth in plant care and environmental stewardship, including water education sessions that teach the understanding of water as a living entity, and supports traditional environmental roles through hands-on learning.

Uses media arts and authentic, Indigenous-centered curriculum to promote environmental protection, sustainability, healing, and cultural vibrancy, including integration of ethnobotanical practices into K–12 subjects across New York schools.

Provides healing and medicinal herbal tea blends at no cost to Indigenous people through cultivation, harvesting, and preparation; includes the Land to Teapot program and community circles that receive tea and reflect on plant medicine experiences.

Enlists volunteers to grow medicinal herbs at home or on farms, and supports organizational operations through volunteer involvement in grant writing, fundraising, communications, and event planning.

Advances Indigenous visibility, land literacy, and community health by sharing ancestral knowledge through innovative educational and cultural methods.

Hosts an annual 4-day arts and sustainability-focused camp for Native families at a solar-powered off-grid homestead in the Finger Lakes, offering hands-on workshops in fire making, plant and fungi education, outdoor cooking, yoga, art, and solar power projects.

Runs the Youth Sprouting Program and Community Weaving Program to strengthen community ties and intergenerational relationships in Tompkins County through land-based and cultural activities.

Organizes ongoing community volunteer days at the Soil Factory and OJI:SDA’ Forest, with structured opportunities for physical engagement in gardening, harvesting, herbal tea preparation, and long-term relationship building; includes team-building volunteer days for corporations.

Runs a MMIW/R program that connects affected families with support networks and provides spiritual advising and substance abuse counseling through the Onondaga Nation Family Healing Center.

Hosts benefit concerts and outdoor events, including a Mother’s Day concert and a premier outdoor concert at South Hill Cider, to raise funds for Indigenous youth camps, Earth guardianship, and community health and wellbeing.

Hosts annual and virtual Spring Summits and educator gatherings that convene Indigenous Elders, Knowledge Carriers, and education experts to develop land-based teaching methods and inquiry-based project cycles rooted in Indigenous knowledge systems.