Thunder Valley CDC

8 Grants from 2007 - 2022

  • Total Amount Received: $2,118,000
  • Location: Porcupine, SD

Thunder Valley CDC will spread the implementation of student-centered learning practices in the Bush Foundation region, especially on Pine Ridge reservation, through their Lakota language and culture immersion programs.

Grants received

$750,000 in 2022

  • Term: 36 Months

Thunder Valley CDC will spread the implementation of student-centered learning practices in the Bush Foundation region, especially on Pine Ridge reservation, through their Lakota language and culture immersion programs.

$209,000 in 2021

  • Program: Community Innovation
  • Term: 27 Months

For the Regional Equity Initiative to address inequities that exist for women in the Pine Ridge community by supporting women's leadership, traditional women’s societies and honoring champions of change

$100,000 in 2018

  • Term: 36 Months

To be a leader and learner as a member of Community Creativity Cohort 2, a 3-year participant-led capacity building effort to support organizations led by and serving people of color and Indigenous people, rural communities, and smaller cities and towns

$209,000 in 2017

  • Term: 25 Months

The creation of a collaborative working group approach to achieve strategic goals and outcomes within the Oyate Omniciye Regional Plan

$500,000 in 2017

  • Program: Bush Prize
  • Term: 23 Months

In recognition of winning a 2017 Bush Prize for Community Innovation, this grant will advance the organization's charitable mission

$100,000 in 2015

  • Term: 20 Months

To coordinate the Pine Ridge Promise Zone Initiative

$200,000 in 2014

  • Term: 26 Months

To co-create the Sustainable Home Ownership Project (SHOP): a workforce development initiative and homeownership system that supports a green construction industry on Pine Ridge

$50,000 in 2007

  • Term: 12 Months

For staff and program expenses to start the organization