Native American-Serving Nontribal Institutions Program

Don Crews
202.280.8775
Don.Crews@ed.gov

Julius C. Cotton
202.245.6288
Julius.Cotton@ed.gov@ed.gov

The Native American-Serving Nontribal Institutions Program (NASNTI) will provide funding for eligible institutions of higher education to improve and expand capacity to serve Native Americans and low-income individuals.

Program priorities include:

• Meeting student social, emotional, academic, and career development needs with a focus on underserved students
• Increasing postsecondary education access, affordability, completion, and post-enrollment success
• Projects that support activities to strengthen and institutionalize native language preservation and revitalization

Eligible applicants are institutions of higher education that have undergraduate enrollment of at least 10% Native American.

Additional requirements include:

• Be accredited or preaccredited by a reliable, nationally recognized accrediting agency or association
• Be legally authorized by the state in which it is located to be a junior or community college or to provide an educational program for which it awards a bachelor's degree
• Has an enrollment of needy students and has low average education and general expenditures per full-time equivalent undergraduate student

Estimated award range: $250,000 - $600,000 per year
Project period: 5 years
Estimated number of awards: 9
Estimated total program funding: $4,200,000

Links to the full announcement and online application process are available through grants.gov. The application instructions will be found on the related documents tab.