The Christensen Fund works to support Indigenous peoples in advancing their inherent rights, dignity, and self determination.
The Christensen Fund’s grantmaking strategy centers our work on supporting and strengthening Indigenous Peoples’ efforts to secure and exercise their rights to their land, territories, resources, and sovereign systems of governance. We have rooted our work in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), the global standard that both asserts and recognizes Indigenous worldviews and values and establishes a universal framework for the recognition of their rights. The Indigenous Peoples’ Movement has used UNDRIP a key organizing mechanism to express their priorities, worldviews and collective identities. Rooting our strategy in UNDRIP is our contribution to the essential global work of growing both the recognition and use of Indigenous Peoples’ rights. And, most importantly, to improving the daily lives of Indigenous Peoples and the land and seascapes they steward.
Since 2021, The Christensen Fund is proud to have supported the following organizations:
- Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians
- Aliansi Masyarakat Adat Nusantara
- Alliance for a Just Society
- Alliance of Local Communities in Hardship Areas (ALCHA)
- Allied Media Projects
- American Indian Science and Engineering Society
- Ariadne Network
- Asociación Civil de Trabajo Socioambiental de la Amazonía WATANIBA
- Association of Indigenous Peoples and Organizations of the Northeast, Minas Gerais, and Espirito Santo
- Center for Research and Development in Drylands
- Centro de Capacitacion y Defensa de los Derechos Humanos e Indigenas A.C.
- Centro de Derechos Humanos de la Montaña Tlachinollan, A.C.
- Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental, A.C.
- Centro para el Desarrollo Social y la Sustentabilidad Nuiwari A.C.
- Coalition of Large Tribes
- Cobanaras Federación Estatal de Sociedades de Solidaridad Social
- Consultative Group on Biological Diversity
- Consultoría Técnica Comunitaria, A.C.
- Coordinadora de las Organizaciones Indigenas de la Cuenca Amazonica (COICA)
- Cordillera Peoples Alliance, Inc.
- Council on Foundations, Inc
- Cultural Survival
- Drylands Learning and Capacity Building Initiative
- Environmental Grantmakers Association
- Federación Indígena Empresarial y Comunidades Locales de México A. C.
- First Peoples Worldwide at the University of Colorado Foundation
- Fondo Defensores A.C.
- Forest Peoples Programme
- Foro Para el Desarrollo Sustentable A.C.
- Friends of Lake Turkana Trust
- Front Line USA Foundation
- Fundacion Karisma
- Fundacion Pro Defensa de la Naturaleza y sus Derechos
- Global Greengrants Fund, Inc.
- Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Association
- Greater Kansas City Community Foundation
- Gwichin Steering Committee
- If Not Us Then Who
- Indian Land Tenure Foundation
- Indian Law Resource Center, Inc.
- Indigenous Educational Network of Turtle Island
- Indigenous Movement for Peace Advancement and Conflict Transformation (IMPACT)
- Indigenous Peoples Movement for Self-Determination and Liberation, Inc.
- Indigenous Peoples Rights International
- Indigenous Peoples Rights, Inc.
- Indigenous Strategy and Institution for Development
- Indij Public Media
- Instituto Mexicano de Desarrollo Comunitario A.C.
- International Funders for Indigenous Peoples
- International Indian Treaty Council
- International Indigenous Women’s Forum / FIMI
- International Land and Forest Tenure Facility
- International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
- International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs
- Justice Funders
- Kashia Band of Pomo Indians of the Stewarts Point Rancheria
- Kivulini Trust
- Ko‘ihonua
- Land is Life, Inc.
- Marin Agricultural Land Trust
- Meridian Institute
- Namati
- National Center for Family Philanthropy, Inc.
- National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy
- National Congress of American Indians Fund
- Native American Finance Officers Association Inc
- Native American Rights Fund
- Native Americans in Philanthropy
- Native Conservancy
- Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation
- Natural Justice
- NDN Collective Inc.
- Northern Chumash Tribal Council
- Ogiek Peoples’ Development Program
- Organizacion Nacional Indigena de Colombia (ONIC)
- Oweesta Corporation
- Panorama Global
- Pastoralist Women for Health and Education
- PEAK Grantmaking, Inc.
- People of the Sacred Land
- Pepperwood Foundation
- Periodismo de Abajo A.C.
- Podaali – Fundo Indigena da Amazonia Brasileira
- President and Fellows of Harvard College
- Pueblo Originario Kichwa de Sarayaku
- Rainforest Foundation Inc.
- Re:wild
- Redes por la Diversidad, Equidad y Sustentabilidad A.C.
- Resource Conflict Institute (RECONCILE)
- Resources Legacy Fund (Ridges to Riffles)
- Rhizomatica Communications
- Rights and Resources Institute, Inc.
- Samburu Women Trust
- Santa Fe Film Institute
- Servicios Integrales Emuri (SINE) A.C.
- Seventh Generation Advisors
- Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples, Inc.
- Sicangu Community Development Corporation
- Snowchange Cooperative
- Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs
- Sogorea Te’ Land Trust
- Solidaire Network Inc.
- Strategies for Northern Development
- Sundance Institute Indigenous Program
- Synchronicity Earth USA Inc.
- Ta Alunauw The Quinault Canoe Society
- Tebtebba Foundation, Inc.
- Tequio Jurídico A.C.
- The Aspen Institute, Inc. (Center for Native American Youth)
- The Cultural Conservancy
- Tsikini A.C.
- United South and Eastern Tribes, Inc.
- University of Colorado Foundation
- Yayasan Anak Dusun Papua
- Young of Heart Workshop, dba Pu’uhonua Society