Funding Goals
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Indigenous Science Research Institute (ISRI)
Construction and maintenance of a facility with conference space, small offices, and classrooms located on the UPeace campus, designed consistent with indigenous values
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Indigenous Science and Peace Studies Master’s Program
Establish a scholarship fund for qualified students (full scholarship for up to ten students or partial scholarship for more)
Provide grants to support students’ ancestral studies in their countries of origin
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Indigenous Science Research Grants
Provide assistance for substantive research proposals from cultural practitioners, faculty and advisors.
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Local Indigenous Community Projects
Supporting local community projects and initiatives such as the Bushman Renaissance project, the Snow Leopard educational project in Kyrgyzstan or others.
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Global Elders Network Gathering
Support travel and bringing WISN’s Elders network together semi-annually
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Emergency Support Fund For ‘At-Risk’ Elders and Indigenous Cultural Practitioners
Indigenous Cultural Practitioners and Elders are at great risk of kidnapping and death over land rights and more. Help sustain WISN’s emergency fund for at-risk whose lives are in immediate danger (from government, religious radicals, etc.).