Advancing Indigenous Environmental Resilience through funding education, research and outreach, supporting academic pathways, and fostering community collaborations and partnerships.
The Agnese Nelms Haury Program (the Haury Program) is a University of Arizona-embedded philanthropic program established in 2014 with what was at that time the largest bequest ever received by the University. The Haury Program is governed by an external Donor Advised Fund Board. Since 2020, the Haury Program has been focusing on advancing Indigenous resilience, especially environmental resilience and water work.
FACT: Though Native Americans represent nearly three percent of the US population, currently less than one percent of philanthropic dollars explicitly benefits Native Americans.
(Source: The Bridgespan Group in partnership with Native Americans in Philanthropy, May 2025)
By leveraging University of Arizona excellence and resources, the Haury Program invests in people and programs at the University of Arizona, as well as community partnerships and Native Nations directly, thus putting the University of Arizona land grant mission into action.
We are now housed under the Arizona Institute for Resilience (AIR), where researchers, educators, problem-solvers, and innovators from diverse disciplines work together to develop innovative and practical solutions to the environmental and resilience challenges we face today.
The Haury Program supports projects, people, research and education who offer the most powerful, innovative, and effective means of addressing tribal resilience with utmost respect for tribal sovereignty.
The Haury Program supports robust academic pathways to and at the University of Arizona for students, faculty and staff from federally-recognized tribes or those working with them.
The Haury Program works with key partners at the University of Arizona and across the State of Arizona to advance Tribal Resilience, support tribal self-determination and sovereignty, and uplift voices of those working in this field.
