Awards Database

The Haury Program is focused on advancing Indigenous Resilience through funding and supporting education, research and outreach, supporting Native American pathways, and building partnerships at the UArizona and beyond.

This Awards Database contains all of our grants awarded since our inception in 2014, including those from the 2014-2019 period when the program offered competitive grants and focused on multi-cultural scholarship and community building to promote and build capacity for wider social and environmental justice projects.

Indigenous Resilience Initiative Awards awarded after 2020 are tailored to the needs of a program, and can range from a few thousand to several hundred thousand dollars for multi-year projects. Our competitive Native Pathways Awards for Native American and Indigenous Resilience graduate students for their research are up to $20k per recipient per year.

Suggested Keywords: Indigenous Resilience, IRes, Native Pathways, Navajo Nation, Water, Seed Grant, Challenge Grant, Faculty Fellow.

Greening the Food Deserts of Tucson, Arizona

Lead: Buechler, Stephanie and Tong, Daoqin (UA Geography & Development)

    Partners: Community Food Bank, Community Gardens

    • Award Date: Jan 2016
    • Award Amount: $48,665
    • Duration: 2 years
    • Status: Completed

    Adequate access to healthy food has become a more pressing societal issue due to the recent recession and continued un- and underemployment depressing income. The collaborations between the UA researchers, Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona and Community Gardens of Tucson and Compass Affordable Housing sought to map food access, improve local access and provide a case study to integrate social justice and environmental sustainability into food access for the local community and as a model for other communities. The project focused on low-income women and men with a special focus on disabled adults, women, the elderly and recent migrants.

    Yaqui Ancestral Wheat & Foodways Project

    Lead: Alvarez, Maribel (UA Southwest Center)

      Partners: Yaqui Traditional Experts

      • Award Date: Jan 2016
      • Award Amount: $60,000
      • Duration: 2 years
      • Status: Completed

      The collaborations between the traditional authorities of Pueblo Vicam in the Yaqui ancestral homeland, Rio Yaqui, Sonora, the Yoem Pueblo in Marana, Arizona and the Southwest Folklife Alliance designed and tested a pilot project for cross-national environmental and social development plan to link Yaqui territories in Sonora and the Tucson basin around the themes of food memory, food justice and food sovereignty. The project collected oral histories, conducted test planting of ancestral wheat varieties, established artisanal workshops and developed a market recovery strategic plan for Yaqui-owned and branded new artisanal wheat products.

      Democracy on the Line: the political ecology of legal suspension in the U.S. southern boundary enforcement

      Lead: Sundberg, Juanita (University of British Columbia)

        Partners: School of Geography and Development

        • Award Date: Feb 2015
        • Award Amount: $12,490
        • Duration: 12 weeks
        • Status: Completed

        Sundberg visited the University of Arizona to work with collaborators on challenges to the Southwest socio-natural environment growing out of contemporary strategies to enforce the US-Mexico political boundary. Sundberg conducted field work and interviews, and facilitated a panel discussion about border and REAL ID Act issues in September 2015 at the University of Arizona.

        Early development of an inclusive approach for scenario-based resilience planning

        Lead: Waple, Anne (Second Nature)

          Partners: CCASS and Institute of the Environment

          • Award Date: Feb 2015
          • Award Amount: $5,000
          • Duration: 4 weeks
          • Status: Completed

          Waple worked with faculty and students at the University of Arizona's Institute for the Environment and the Center for Climate Adaptation Science and Solutions to develop a set of ideas to form a foundation for collaborative teams to work on adaptation and resilience planning for the metropolitan Tucson area. These efforts included learning about existing planning efforts and local priorities, mini-workshops with City representatives and other stakeholders, and open lectures about resilience efforts.

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