Thank you for your interest in the Manna-hatta Fund. The Fund closed in October 2025.

The Manna-hatta Fund was a joint partnership between a volunteer group of non-Native New Yorkers and the Board of Directors of the American Indian Community House. The non-Native volunteers managed the Manna-hatta Fund website, the donation portal, relationships with NYC organizations, and a quarterly newsletter. The Community House handled taxes and finances, gave input on the newsletter and website, and determined the use of all funds raised. All funds went directly into a bank account controlled by the Community House. 

From October 2019 - October 2025, New Yorkers made financial gifts (a suggested $24/ month) through the Manna-hatta Fund’s website and donation portal, as well as through wire transfers and checks. The Fund’s supporters raised over $2.5 million to support Indigenous Peoples in New York City. 

The Community House took over the donation platform that used to be available on this site. For information about how funds were used or donations you made through the website, you can contact American Indian Community House staff at development@aich.org

To the many non-Indigenous New Yorkers, from all over the world,  who supported this project: As your all-volunteer Fund administration team, we got to meet many of you in your communities — your mosques, churches, synagogues, schools, bar crawls, music classes, and as part of your  activist work for a better world. We have learned so much from you about solidarity, the harms of colonization, and the ways New Yorkers are willing to extend ourselves to ensure that our city and state reflect our values for a world where there is enough for all and where we address injustice directly. 

To our Indigenous partners: It has been humbling and an honor to work alongside you to build, care for, and grow the Manna-hatta Fund. A special mention must go to Rick Chavolla, who was the Chair of the Board of Directors at the Community House in 2018, who helped found and lead this project through thousands of volunteer hours that included teaching us, building relationships with us, and supporting our efforts to reach into our non-Native communities. Without Rick none of this would have been possible. He was joined by Lance Richmond, Betty (Lyons) Hill, and Frances Grumbly in this effort. Thank you, Rick, for believing in and joining us in a shared dream for decolonizing New York, and thank you, Lance, Betty, and Fran, for the many hours of labor and love you poured into this work.

The invitation to live into a legacy of repair between Indigenous and settler/non-Native communities doesn’t end with the Manna-hatta Fund closing. 

Many people  used the Fund as a way to introduce their communities to decolonial ideas, to acknowledge past and current harms, and as an opportunity for repair. We met people from all over New York State and Turtle Island as a result of doing this work, and there is a movement to reckon with the legacies of colonization, land theft, and genocide that are still playing out on these lands. Building that movement must continue. 

The volunteers who administered the Manna-hatta Fund  continue to put out a quarterly newsletter with calls to action to support Indigenous Peoples in NYS, invitations to local events, news from the region, and fundraisers for local Indigenous needs. You can sign up here. If you’d like to be in dialogue with us about your own work within an Indigenous Solidarity movement, you can reach out to us at indigenoussolidarityny@gmail.com

📓Just as we documented our start, we’ll also be documenting our closing and what we learned. If you have lessons, victories, gratitude, or feedback to share with us or the Indigenous leaders who worked on this project, you can email those to info@mannahattafund.org- we’ll be responsive to that email address through 12/31/25. We’ll be sure to share the final report with our newsletter subscribers when it is ready.

Thank you all for all of the ways you’ve given yourselves to this project. May our efforts to honor Mother Earth, and Indigenous Peoples, past and present, of the lands where we’ve made a home, be a cause and condition for the healing between our communities and among the land and its people. 

In solidarity,

The Manna-hatta Fund Volunteer Collective