2025 Keepers of the Earth Fund Call for Project Concepts, Cultural Survival is excited to announce the 2025 Call for Project Concepts for our Keepers of the Earth Fund in Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa. We are offering grants of up to $8,000 USD to support Indigenous-led, community-driven initiatives grounded in Indigenous values and self-determined development.
This funding opportunity is designed to uplift collective projects that bring tangible benefits to Indigenous communities, traditional governments, and organizations. If your community is working to protect culture, lands, languages, rights, or resources, we invite you to apply and be part of this movement for Indigenous resilience and empowerment.
Applicants are encouraged to carefully review the full details and submit their applications before the specified deadline to seize this grant opportunity.
Last Date of Submission: 22nd September 2025
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(2025 Keepers of the Earth Fund Call for Project Concepts)
Keepers of the Earth Fund 2025 Call for Projects in Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa
Focus Areas
The 2025 call for proposals will prioritize projects focused on the following topics and their intersections: (Nevertheless, applicants are encouraged to submit proposals in topics or themes important to their community.)
Climate change – (e.g. reforestation, adaptation of crops, flood prevention)
- Food sovereignty (e.g seed banks, Indigenous traditional food systems, fishing and hunting rights)
- Indigenous economies (e.g. production, distribution and circulation of products, trade, community enterprises, arts and crafts when they are a strong part of the local economy)
- Indigenous governance based on ancestral systems (e.g. inclusion of women and youth on Indigenous governments, strengthening assemblies or other forms of decision making)
- Indigenous knowledge systems – (e.g. transfer of knowledge from knowledge keepers to youth and children)
- Indigenous spiritualities – (e.g. practice of rituals for agriculture, cycles of the moon, the rain, knowledge transfer of Indigenous cosmovisions to new generations or the community).
Funding Information
(2025 Keepers of the Earth Fund Call for Project Concepts)
- Grants of up to $8,000 USD are available through this opportunity. These funds are designed to serve as a catalyst—providing vital support for the early stages of community-led projects that aim to grow into sustainable, self-sufficient initiatives over time.
How to apply?
(2025 Keepers of the Earth Fund Call for Project Concepts)
To apply, please submit a proposal answering seven-questions and send it to koef@cs.org. Please limit your application to a maximum of two pages of written text or five minutes of video. We accept proposals in English, Afrikaans, Setswana, and Khoekhoegowab.
Project concepts will be accepted until August 22, 2025.
To lean more read the Guidelines How to Apply?
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