New Songs Rising - Grantmakers for Girls of Color

New Songs Rising Initiative

The New Songs Rising Initiative is a partnership between the Seventh Generation Fund For Indigenous People’s and G4GC to resource Native and Globally-Indigenous girls and gender-diverse, and their families, and their communities with abundance and intention. This initiative expands opportunities for Indigenous girls through grantmaking, convening and community building, and mentorship and peer support, with a specific emphasis on Indigenous cultural work, and also works to encourage the field of philanthropy to better meet the needs of Indigenous young people.

New Songs Rising in the media

Learn about how the New Songs Rising Initiative is centering Indigenous girls in Inside Philanthropy

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Our work

We launched the new New Songs Rising Initiative in 2021 with the mission of dispersing resources to Native and Globally-Indigenous organizations dedicated to restoring health, security, and abundance to their communities. Especially in efforts that:

Move financial resources to organizations and tax-exempt Tribal entities serving and supporting Native/Indigenous girls, especially those led by Native/Indigenous women and girls
Support the skill-building and network-building among Native/Indigenous women and girls leading these organizations and efforts
Supporting research, particularly participatory research, that fills data gaps about how best to support the sovereignty and organizing power of Native/Indigenous women and girls
Create a container for conversations and political education between non-Native and other women and girls of color about how to move in solidarity with one another towards collective liberation
Facilitate opportunities for funders to discuss how to decolonize philanthropic practices in order to mitigate or repair harm done to Native/Indigenous communities
Provide visibility for powerful work being led by Native/Indigenous girls for other funders and philanthropic colleagues

New Songs Rising Fellowship

We launched the New Songs Rising Fellowship in 2022, an 18-month program in which fellows deepen their sense of identity and belonging, learn life and career skills, inform the NSRI strategy through participatory grantmaking and other forms of feedback, receive mentorship, access mental health support and personal coaching, and more. We learned this fellowship was need through a series of listening circles with our New Songs Rising Initiative grantees, Indigenous youth, and their relatives.

The inaugural cohort consisted of 10 fellows, ages 13-24, from seven different Indigenous communities.