Tribal SARE Food Sovereignty Mini-Grants Webinar: Plan and apply for $5000
June 5, 2026
Tribal SARE Food Sovereignty Mini-Grants Webinar: Plan and apply for $5000 (6-8-26)
This is a recorded webinar with Emily Proctor, Sarah Zeiler and Katie Brandt. The first half of this webinar shares information about SARE grants, grantwriting and Tribal SARE in Michigan and Wisconsin. The latter half is an interactive webinar to create a $5,000 Tribal SARE mini-grant application for a project to start a community garden to fill elder food boxes.
Here is the agenda for the video:
- What SARE Grants are available for Tribal members?
- Tribal SARE Grant Planning doc - exact questions from Tribal SARE Food Sovereignty mini-grant application form
- Example with full group
- Brainstorm how to split for breakout rooms (By topics or regions)
- Next Steps & questions
- Tribal SARE mini-grant application for Michigan and Wisconsin
- Tribal SARE Professional Development Grant Application
- NC-SARE Grants
SARE Contacts in Michigan
- Sarah Zeiler, Michigan SARE Coordinator https://www.canr.msu.edu/people/sarah-fronczak
- Katie Brandt, SARE & Tribal SARE support https://www.canr.msu.edu/people/brandt
- Emily Proctor, MI/WI Tribal SARE https://www.canr.msu.edu/people/emily_proctor
Thanks to the webinar participants for a great grant topic and for contributing so many excellent suggestions!
SARE grant links
- NC-SARE Grants https://northcentral.sare.org/grants/
- Michigan SARE https://www.canr.msu.edu/misare/index
- MI-WI Tribal SARE https://www.canr.msu.edu/tribal_education/tribal-sare-mini-grants