Leaning Into the Strength of Our Community Relationships
In 2025, we prioritized big investments that built new relationships and strengthened old ones through our organizer trainings, coalition work, and knowledge sharing at conferences, through critical community conversations, and more.
Now, our network is even stronger and ready to create the change we want to see so the next generations can thrive.
2025 By the Numbers
19
Organizing fellows
95
Native organizing training participants
334,592
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Building Resilience Through Organizing
Organizing has never been more important in this century than it is now. At NOA, we’re building an ecosystem of organizers who are leading with their traditional values. Our national, state, local, and community trainings equip tribal leaders, Native grassroots organizers, community leaders and others with the skills and tools needed to mobilize their communities and build resilience to the ever-changing political and social conditions we find ourselves in today.
2025 Native Organizing Trainings
In 2025, we conducted three Native organizing trainings—two national trainings and one community training on the Wind River Indian Reservation.
These trainings provided hands-on learning opportunities where participants shared their insights, learned from each other, and discussed real-world examples of how the tools provided during the training, and our traditional values, can guide effective grassroots movements.
2025 Organizing Fellowship
Our 12-week organizing fellowship is unlike any other in Indian Country. Our fellowship supports organizers across the country in their work to affect change and amplify their voices.
Participants in our 2025 program included: Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition, Native American Women’s Dialog on Infant Mortality, Protect the Sacred, Make Voting a Tradition/Native American Community Development Institute (NACDI), and Arizona Native Vote.
National Unity Conference
In July 2025, we attended the National UNITY Conference, a five-day youth-led event that provides leadership development opportunities to more than 2,500 Native youth annually.
20 Native youth from nine Tribal Nations and villages across the U.S. joined the NOA team at the conference and co-hosted a session that equipped attendees with the tools to engage and organize their communities to respond to the political moment.
Investing in Our Community
We believe in the power of partnerships to amplify the voices of our communities. Each year, we partner with coalitions, Tribal Nations, Native-led organizations, and others around a variety of issues that impact Indian Country. We support our partners by offering strategies and communications support and leveraging our national reach to engage new audiences.
Coalition for Outdoor Renaming and Education (CORE)
CORE is a coalition of organizations and individuals who are committed to restoring justice through an inclusive process of reconciliation by renaming offensive places.
We participate on CORE’s steering committee and help guide their policy and communications efforts.
Native American Voting Rights Coalition (NAVRC)
NAVRC is a nonpartisan alliance of national and grassroots organizations, scholars, and activists advocating for equal access for Native Americans in the political process.
We have been a member of the coalition since 2018 and in 2025, attended the annual NAVRC gathering hosted by the Native American Rights Fund (NARF).
Ute Mountain Ute Tribe’s 100 Years of Silence Project
In 2025, we partnered with the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe’s 100 Years of Silence Project for a two-part webinar series titled “100 Years of Silence and Reclamation of History.”
This webinar series was part of a broader arts and public education campaign to enhance public understanding of Native American history and lived experience, and encourage community dialogue.
“Uplifted” by John I. Pepion (Blackfeet)
This year, we licensed the artwork “Uplifted” by Blackfeet artist John I. Pepion for the cover and featured art you’ll see throughout our 2025 report.
In John’s own words, “Uplifted” is a tribute to those who reach the summit, carried by the strength and sacrifices of those who came before but never made it there themselves. It honors the journey upward not as a solitary climb, but as one shared with others, past and present, whose presence makes the ascent possible.
Magpies, a favorite bird of John’s, appear as symbols of watchfulness, intelligence, and connection, moving between worlds and witnessing the path from below to above.
Thank You for Supporting our Work
Our partners and donors are the foundation of what we do and who we are at Native Organizers Alliance. Thank you!
Your contributions, no matter the size, support our efforts to drive change and empower Indigenous leaders and communities to organize for a better future for the generations to come.
