Applications for our November 2025 Native Organizing Training are now open!

We’re excited to announce that applications are now open for our November 17-22, 2025 National Native Community Organizing Training.

Our national trainings are for Native organizers and Tribal leaders committed to engaging our communities with organizing strategies guided by intertribal Indigenous values. The week-long gathering focuses on sharpening community organizing skills to build effective grassroots campaigns and movements to build power in our Native Nations and Native Communities. We will also focus on the changing political landscape and how we meet the challenges and opportunities before us.

The training will be held in Federal Way, Washington State. The cost of housing, transportation, and most meals will be covered by the Native Organizers Alliance.

Apply online here. Deadline to apply is September 9, 11:59 pm EST.

Participants spend time together envisioning how to mobilize community action to make change possible and strengthen sovereignty and self-determination.

• We explore how we have traditionally and historically used our traditional values to organize in our communities and how we continue to do so today.
  We discuss building political power for change and how Tribal and urban communities can challenge the power that denies our peoples’ inherent and sovereign rights.
• We share organizing tools and share knowledge gained from our teachings and life experiences.
• We learn from our rich history of intertribal cultural values of building community by using interactive sessions that are grounded in collective learning. And folks go home energized with a shared theory of change rooted in traditional intertribal Indigenous community building.

Our week-long, in-person Native Organizing Trainings are a part of our year-round efforts of growing a powerful ecosystem of Native leaders who will continue to build our collective community power.

We encourage Tribal and Native community leaders in rural, reservation, or urban communities — and the staff of Native nonprofits, service agencies, and Tribal entities — to apply.

Native Organizers Alliance is pleased to cover the cost of housing, transportation, and most meals. Participants are responsible for additional costs. Organizations, Tribal governments, groups, or individuals who can contribute to defraying the costs of this training will provide the opportunity to go beyond 30 participants.

Before you apply, please note that this is a gathering that requires active, daily participation and is not a conference. We will not be staying at a hotel but at a retreat space with rustic rooms with limited wifi.