Our Program Areas

The Wind River Foundation has identified three key levers of growth and change for indigenous communities on the Wind River Indian Reservation:

Youth and Community Leadership

Leadership Drives Change.

The Wind River Foundation seeks to support their work to move past immediate remedy and toward long-term planning and growth capacity.  It will be through the endeavors of these indigenous leaders that communities on the Wind River Indian Reservation achieve self-determined cultural revitalization, social progress, and economic prosperity. 

Cultural
Revitalization

Indigenous Cultures are the Solution.

Both the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho are the inheritors of strong and distinct cultural traditions, languages, values and ways of life. Indigenous societies have endured many losses and violations; the loss of their historical and cultural homelands, violative attempts to eradicate their unique cultures, languages, social, economic, family, and leadership structures.

Connections, Knowledge and Experience

Empowering Action.

Indigenous community leaders and future leaders will benefit by leveraging the shared knowledge and experience of the wider network of both indigenous- and non-indigenous-led philanthropic organizations that share similar missions and objectives. Providing connections to networks of practice, knowledge and experience empowers indigenous community leaders and future leaders with tools and resources.