“Pawanka” is a Miskitu word meaning “growing and strengthening.” Pawanka Fund is an Indigenous led grantmaking fund that supports indigenous peoples engaged in promoting and protecting traditional knowledge, wellbeing, rights and self-determined development. Pawanka provides grants to community-led organizations for the recovery and revitalization of indigenous knowledge and learning systems in seven sociocultural regions of the world: North America, Latin America, Asia, Africa, Arctic, Pacific, and Russia.