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initiatives.
Annauma is honoured to provide funding that uplifts Inuit-led initiatives across Nunavut — projects that foster connection, learning, and collaboration within and among communities.
This page highlights both direct funding from Annauma and stewarded funding that helps community partners advance their work and shape a vibrant future together. Through these efforts, we help sustain Inuit values, skills, and worldviews in ways that encourage lifelong learning and nurture collaborative relationships.
Annauma recognizes that project priorities may evolve, plans may shift, and organizations may adapt their ideas after funding has been confirmed. When this happens, participants come together to re-establish consensus, ensuring that decisions remain community-led. Annauma continues its financial backing in alignment with each cohort’s collective choices. Accordingly, this page may be updated to reflect those changes.
2025-2026
Inuit Children and Youth
Through collaboration and consensus, cohort participants distributed $300,000 to fund these projects and initiatives:
867 Strength
Plans to launch a youth camp that promotes strength training, wellness, and inclusivity, starting with staff certification to ensure participant safety and support.
Learn moreArctic Children and Youth Foundation
Are continuing a youth parka program that partners with local seamstresses to provide parkas for families while offering youth hands-on learning to preserve intergenerational skills.
Learn moreIsaksimagit Inuusirmi Katujjiqatigiit Embrace Life Council
Are creating Inuit-designed and illustrated grief journals for youth to include in care packages and distribute to schools across the territory.
Learn morePirurvik Preschool
Is launching a food education program that combines traditional and modern methods to teach children through Pillimaksarniq, fostering healthy eating, food sovereignty, and intergenerational learning in schools and the community.
Learn more2024-2025
Arts and Culture
Through collaboration and consensus, cohort participants distributed $250,000 to fund these projects and initiatives:
Fiddles North/Violins Nord
Added a part-time Director of Operations and plans a mentorship program for alumni to teach in their home communities.
Learn moreQajakkut Society
Reviving the building and paddling of traditional qajait (Inuit canoe) with Elders, passing cultural knowledge to youth and engaging the community.
Learn moreRedfish Arts Society
Created a Junior Welder Assistant role offering Inuit youth paid, hands-on learning.
Learn moreCommunity Health and Well-being
Through collaboration and consensus, cohort participants distributed $240,000 to fund these projects and initiatives:
Isaksimagit Inuusirmi Katujjiqatigiit Embrace Life Council
Developed a strategic plan through a staff retreat and hosted a full in-person team meeting of staff from across the territory.
Learn morePairijiit Tigummiaktikkut Inuit Elders Society
Hired staff to support daily operations and long-term planning alongside the Executive Director.
Learn morePiruqatigiit Resource Centre
Used funds to support sustaining operations and salaries while advancing strategic leadership transition planning.
Learn moreUquutaq Society
Creating a culturally grounded, trauma-informed peer support program led by those with lived experience.
Learn moreEducation and Learning
Through collaboration and consensus, cohort participants distributed $140,000 to fund these projects and initiatives:
Ilitaqsiniq
Ran Becoming Innumariik and Amausiurniq programs, focusing on healing and growth through Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit and traditional Amautiit sewing guided by Elders.
Learn moreNunatta Student Council
Stocked the Nunavut Arctic College food bank and is developing a community space to support student belonging.
Learn moreTukisigiarvik Society
Hosted Savvirutiit workshops to teach traditional beading and Inuktitut garment terms, keeping cultural practices alive.
Learn moreCommunity Identified Opportunities
The Community Nominated Award is $100,000 in flexible funding provided by Annauma to an organization nominated by their community.
Tukisigiarvik Society
The inaugural Community Nominated Award went to Tukisigiarvik Society, recognized for decades of community impact and Inuit-focused programming.
Learn moreFund for Gender Equality
In partnership with Community Foundations of Canada, Annauma stewarded a total of $825,000 to consensus cohort participants who collectively decided to support these projects and initiatives:
Ilitaqsiniq
Developed a holistic leadership program for women in Nunavut that strengthens leadership across community, family, and workplace settings.
Learn moreIqaluit Amateur Hockey Association
Created a territory-wide plan to engage Inuit girls in hockey and support Inuit women coaches through camps, skills training, and leadership development.
Learn morePitquhirnikkut Ilihautiniq/Kitikmeot Heritage Society
Launched the Elders in Training program to reverse Inuinnaqtun language loss through mentorship, language documentation, and resource development.
Learn moreQajuqturvik Community Food Centre
Through its Inuit Women’s Circle program, offers weekly on-the-land activities that strengthen cultural learning, traditional knowledge, and community resilience.
Learn moreQaujigiartiit Health Research Centre
Hosted a Research Week for early-career Inuit women and is planning a follow-up focused on Elder-led learning and culturally grounded mentorship.
Learn more2023-2024
Inuit Children and Youth
Through collaboration and consensus, cohort participants distributed $240,000 to fund these projects and initiatives:
Arctic Children and Youth Foundation
Funding used in support of staff members who were not currently receiving housing stipends to promote equity and employee well-being.
Learn moreIqaluit Music Society
Organized a summer camp for teenage volunteers to develop leadership and musicianship skills.
Learn moreNunavut Bilingual Education Society
Created a resource manual for parents and caregivers to help children learn Inuktitut at home.
Learn moreSkills Canada Nunavut
Conducted a junior apprenticeship program to introduce Inuit youth to career opportunities in the trades industry.
Learn more2022-2023
Community Services Recovery Fund
In partnership with Community Foundation of Canada, Annauma stewarded a total of $330,000 to consensus cohort participants who collectively decided to support these projects and initiatives:
Arctic Children and Youth Foundation
Received support to to redesign its organizational strategy and operations.
Learn moreIqaluit Humane Society
Received support to develop an operations plan and strategy for an animal rescue and wellness center.
Learn morePitquhirnikkut Ilihautiniq/Kitikmeot Heritage Society
Received support in undertaking transformational strategic planning and strengthen their capacity for Inuit-led governance.
Learn moreQikiqtani Inuit Association
Received support to implement a decision-making tool to serve their increased capacity and future initiatives.
Learn moreStaying Accountable to Our Communities
Annauma Community Foundation embodies Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit values of giving and reciprocity, where generosity is not transactional but a shared responsibility to care for one another. As part of this shared responsibility, Annauma is committed to supporting community partners, as well as individual community members participating in Annauma-funded programs.
Together, our funding cohorts work to ensure all the programs and initiatives Annauma funds are conducted with care and integrity, and we also recognize that problems and concerns can arise. Our shared responsibility to one another means we are committed to understanding and resolving these problems or concerns with care.
If a community partner or community member feels they have been negatively impacted by Annauma or an Annauma-funded initiative, they can raise their concerns using the process set out below.
Annauma encourages anyone with concerns to raise them. The Annauma staff, Board members, and all affiliated organizations agree there will be no retaliation against anyone who raises a concern under this process.
Community partners or individual community members can raise concerns about Annauma, Annauma staff members, and/or Annauma-funded initiatives by:
- Mail: 114-505B Astro Hill Terrace, Iqaluit NU, X0A 2H0
- Email: info@annauma.ca
- Online form
To raise a concern, please tell us about the problem, who is involved, and any harm that has happened or is happening.
Board members, funders, and Annauma staff members can also raise their concerns directly with the Executive Director or the Board Chair.
All concerns raised through this process are kept confidential. This means the person reviewing the concerns (the reviewer) will know the name of the person raising the concern, but they will not share this person’s identity with others. If there is a need to share this information as part of the investigation process, this will be discussed with those involved in advance.
Submissions made in Inuktitut or French may need to be translated. Where possible, this translation will be done by an Annauma Board member. Translators will keep the concern confidential and will only share information with the reviewer.
Concerns will be reviewed by the Executive Director and members of the Board. If the concern is about Annauma or Annauma staff members, including the Executive Director, it will be reviewed by an independent third party.
Where appropriate, Annauma, and any independent reviewers acting on behalf of Annauma, will let individuals know how their concerns are being addressed.
Where possible, Annauma will try to resolve concerns by working with staff and organizations to improve processes and initiatives. Annauma may offer additional support and training or may increase oversight of particular projects. In some cases, Annauma may need to conduct an investigation to learn more about the concern or may need to refer the matter somewhere else.






