As a small nonprofit, it is critical that we inspire organizations within the NHA to integrate our Management Plan activities into their own projects. This funding program is a natural way to do this, and we look forward to seeing the results of the awarded projects that span the wide horizons of both our landscape and our vision.

2025-2026 Grant Recipients

We are pleased to present the recipients from our third cycle of grants. These organizations were chosen to receive various levels of funding. Read their project summaries here.

• Books for Classrooms: Publishing a Children’s Book Relating to the Santa Cruz River
• Constructing Circles of Peace: Herencia Viva: Workshops and Community Events
• Children’s Museum of Tucson: Supporting Education Outreach for Adventure Learning Tours & Outreach (ALTO) Program
• Coalition for Sonoran Desert Protection: Building on Oracle Road: Translating lessons learned for future wildlife crossings in the Santa Cruz Valley
  
• Friends of the Tubac Presidio & Museum: Otero Hall Exterior Repair and Repainting at Tubac Presidio State Historic Park & Museum
• Sonoran Institute:  Dragons, Damsels, and Inverts: Understanding diversity in Santa Cruz County
• Southwest Folklife Alliance: What the River Knows: Stories of Culture, Place, and Practice along the Santa Cruz River
• Tucson Bird Alliance: Fostering Stewardship at the Paton Center for Hummingbirds

2024-2025 Grant Recipients

These organizations were chosen to receive various levels of funding. Read their project summaries here.

• Books for Classrooms: Reprinting Tohono O’odham Children’s Books
• Border Community Alliance: Celebrate the Santa Cruz Valley Heritage Arts, Culture & Food Series
• Children’s Museum of Tucson: Interpretive Adventure Learning Tours and Outreach (ALTO) Programs
• Coalition for Sonoran Desert Protection: Further Enhancement of a Critical Wildlife Corridor in the Santa Cruz Watershed
• Empire Ranch Foundation: Enhancing Education, Interpretation, and Outreach of the Cultural History of Southeastern Arizona
  
• Friends of Sonoita Creek: Patagonia Cemetery Trail
• Los Descendientes de Tucson: Sosa-Carrillo House Historical Placemaking and Renovation
• Mission Garden: Youth Garden Revision
• Sonoran Institute: Dragonfly Festival Events 2024
• Tucson Bird Alliance: Expanding Bringing Birds Home: Translating and Enhancing Tucson Audubon’s Urban Bird and Pollinator Habitat Recipe Cards
• Tucson City of Gastronomy: Pueblos del Maíz Fiesta
• Tucson Symphony Society: Santa Cruz Watershed Soundscape: Building Hydro-Local Community through Music and Watershed Science
• Tubac Nature Center: A Habitat Management Plan for the Tubac Nature Preserve
• Vail Preservation Society: Rehabilitation and a Community Youth Corps: Activating the Old Vail Post Office, Connecting Vail’s Mexican-American Borderlands History to Its Future 

2023-2024 Grant Recipients

These organizations were chosen to receive various levels of funding. Read their project summaries here.

• Border Community Alliance: Santa Cruz Heritage Borderlands Tours & Forums Series

• Coalition for Sonoran Desert Protection: Critical Wildlife Corridor Enhancement in the Santa Cruz Watershed.

• Friends of the Tubac Presidio and Museum: Sonoran Food Heritage Indoors-Outdoors Exhibit & Lecture Series

• Ironwood Tree Experience: Youth for Blue Skies: An environmental interpretive program for teachers and youth

• Old Pueblo Archaeology Center: Classroom Scholarships for OPEN3 Simulated Archaeological Excavation Learning Program

• Patronato San Xavier: Completing the Refurbishing of the Interpretive Museum at Mission San Xavier

• Sonoran Institute: A Living River: connecting Santa Cruz Valley residents with a river in recovery

• Tucson Audubon Society: Stinknet Stay Away

• Tucson City of Gastronomy: Pueblos del Maíz Fiesta

• Tucson Historic Preservation Foundation: Exploring the Butterfield National Historic Trail

• Tubac Nature Center: Restoration of the Tubac Nature Preserve Wetland