Administration for Native Americans (ANA)

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name: Administration for Native Americans (ANA)
created: '2024-11-20'
modified: '2026-04-19'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
tags:
  - Federal Government
  - Indigenous
  - Native Americans
  - Grants
  - Social Services
  - Language Preservation
  - Open Data
description: >-
  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:
  - aid: administration-for-native-americans-ana-:ana-projects-report
    name: ANA Projects Report Dataset
    description: >-
      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 catalogs, the dataset includes project
      summaries, community impact assessments, and funding outcomes. Published
      under the Open Data Commons ODbL 1.0 license for public access and reuse.
    humanURL: https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/administration-for-native-americans-ana-projects-report
    tags:
      - Native Americans
      - Grants
      - Open Data
      - Community Development
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/administration-for-native-americans-ana-projects-report
      - type: DataAPI
        url: https://healthdata.gov/dataset/Administration-for-Native-Americans-ANA-Projects-R/c57a-jjpd/data
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.acf.hhs.gov/ana
  - type: Portal
    url: https://acf.gov/ana
  - type: Resources
    url: https://www.acf.hhs.gov/ana/research
  - type: Contact
    url: https://acf.gov/ana/about
  - type: Features
    data:
      - name: Social And Economic Development Strategies (SEDS) Grants
        description: >-
          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.
      - name: Native Language Preservation And Maintenance Grants
        description: >-
          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.
      - name: Esther Martinez Immersion (EMI) Grants
        description: >-
          Grants for immersive, site-based Native American language education
          programs for children, including language nest programs for young
          children and language survival schools.
      - name: Environmental Regulatory Enhancement Grants
        description: >-
          Grants providing tribes with resources to develop legal, technical,
          and organizational capacities for protecting their natural environments
          and exercising environmental regulatory authority.
      - name: Training And Technical Assistance
        description: >-
          Capacity building support and technical assistance to Native American
          communities and tribal organizations to strengthen grant management
          and program implementation.
      - name: Open Data Publication
        description: >-
          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.
  - type: UseCases
    data:
      - name: Tribal Grant Research And Planning
        description: >-
          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.
      - name: Native Language Revitalization Research
        description: >-
          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.
      - name: Policy Impact Analysis
        description: >-
          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.
      - name: Community Economic Development Planning
        description: >-
          Tribal governments and community organizations can reference ANA SEDS
          grant data to identify successful models for economic self-sufficiency
          initiatives in Native communities.
      - name: Environmental Justice Research
        description: >-
          Environmental researchers and tribal environmental programs can use
          ANA data to understand the scope and effectiveness of tribal
          environmental regulatory capacity building efforts.
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    X-twitter: apievangelist
    email: [email protected]