5 ways your nonprofit can take action now to support Indigenous communities

Ontario Nonprofit Network (ONN)

5 ways your nonprofit can take action now to support Indigenous communities

https://theonn.ca/5-ways-your-nonprofit-can-take-action-now-to-support-indigenous-communities/

“Five ways for your nonprofit to take action

1. Learn more about residential schools and the devastating impact on communities and generations of Indigenous Peoples or take a free course on Indigenous histories and contemporary issues through University of Alberta.
2. Read the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action and commit to ways your organization will be accountable.
3. Advocate to the federal government to ensure the Calls to Action are implemented. Currently only 8 out of 94 calls have been completed. Read analysis from the Yellowhead Institute about the lack of action.
4. Advocate to the Ontario government and your MPP for government to work with First Nations to survey sites for unmarked graves at Ontario’s former residential schools.
5. Advocate for more public and private funding of nonprofits to be directed to Indigenous-led organizations and to issues Indigenous Peoples have identified need to be funded.”