Administration for Native Americans (ANA)
The Administration for Native Americans (ANA) is an agency within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. ANA promotes self-sufficiency and cultural preservation for Native Americans, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and other Pacific Islander communities by providing social and economic development opportunities through financial assistance, training, and technical assistance. ANA administers a $45 million discretionary grant program in three primary areas: Social and Economic Development Strategies (SEDS), Native Language Preservation and Maintenance, and Environmental Regulatory Enhancement. ANA data on funded projects is publicly available through data.gov and healthdata.gov.
APIs
ANA Projects Report Dataset
The ANA Projects Report dataset provides results and impact analysis for ANA-funded projects in Native American communities. Available through the data.gov and healthdata.gov ca...
Features
Competitive financial assistance grants supporting locally determined projects designed to reduce community problems and achieve social and economic self-sufficiency goals in Native American communities.
Funding for projects that assess, plan, restore, and implement native language curricula to support community language preservation goals, including language nest and survival school programs.
Grants for immersive, site-based Native American language education programs for children, including language nest programs for young children and language survival schools.
Grants providing tribes with resources to develop legal, technical, and organizational capacities for protecting their natural environments and exercising environmental regulatory authority.
Capacity building support and technical assistance to Native American communities and tribal organizations to strengthen grant management and program implementation.
ANA publishes grant outcome data and project reports as open data through data.gov and healthdata.gov under open licenses for public access and research use.
Use Cases
Tribal organizations and Native communities can review ANA project report data to learn from successful models for social and economic development initiatives when applying for ANA grants.
Researchers and language advocates can access ANA program data on language preservation projects to analyze the effectiveness of immersion and curriculum-based approaches to language revitalization.
Federal and state policymakers and advocacy organizations can use ANA project outcome data to evaluate the effectiveness of grant programs in improving conditions in Native American communities.
Tribal governments and community organizations can reference ANA SEDS grant data to identify successful models for economic self-sufficiency initiatives in Native communities.
Environmental researchers and tribal environmental programs can use ANA data to understand the scope and effectiveness of tribal environmental regulatory capacity building efforts.