First Nations secures $1.8M grant from W.K. Kellogg Foundation

LONGMONT —  First Nations Development Institute, a Longmont-based nonprofit group that assists Native American tribes, will receive a $1.8-million grant over three years from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to help Native American communities promote well-being through healthy food systems.

The funding will allow the organization to grow its First Nations’ Native Agriculture and Food Systems Initiative, according to an institute news release.

The institute will host an annual of Native food-systems practitioners and “provide them with extensive learning, networking and capacity building opportunities to strengthen a community of practice,”…