Programs

  • Wilderness Expeditions Scholarships

    The Deer Hill Foundation (DHF) awards student scholarships for individuals and groups to participate in wilderness expeditions and cross-cultural service programs. Awards are based on financial need. These experiences promote greater self awareness, cultural sensitivity, and personal empowerment for high potential students who would otherwise be unable to afford program costs. In 2024 DHF supported 32 scholarships for summper programs, 35 participants in group programs supported by scholarship funds for a total of $127,920.
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    Dates
    Jan 1, 2024 – Dec 31, 2024
    Source
    990
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    $326.5K

  • Support for Native Host Families

    With so many families already living below the poverty line, Native peoples are especially vulnerable. Deer Hill Foundation continues to support Native Host families with food, livestock feed, tools and materials, and clothing.
    Geographies
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    Dates
    Jan 1, 2024 – Dec 31, 2024
    Source
    990
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    $30K

  • Cross-Cultural Service Projects

    The Deer Hill Foundation provides cross-cultural service project which involve living and working with Native American families in the Navajo Nation, Zuni Pueblo, and Hopi Pueblos, Deer Hill groups bring open minds, open hearts, and a trailer full of tools. Hands-on work, shared meals, and evening Circle foster connection across cultural boundaries. Nine Native host families, many of whom have worked with Deer Hill for decades, designed 13 projects in 2024 which are important to their community and create opportunities to share cultural arts, stories, and traditions with participants. Examples include building traditional stone bread ovens in a Hopi pueblo, chinking the log walls of a Navajo hogan, tending sheep and mending fences on a multi-generational family farm, or whitewashing the homes facing the central plaza in preparation for summer Kachina dances in some of the oldest continuously inhabited communities in the United States. 166 participants for 2024.
    Geographies
    Not indicated
    Dates
    Jan 1, 2024 – Dec 31, 2024
    Source
    990
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    No populations provided
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    $28.6K