Dine Care has been operating within the Navaho Nation since 1988. Their mission is to support local activists who seek to defend their communities from the adverse effects of outside economic and fossil fuel energy development including coal mining and coal fired power generation, uranium mining and milling, oil and gas exploration, ground and surface water extraction, and other environmental assaults. Dine Care helped organize the Western States RECA Reform Coalition that amended the 1990 Radiation Exposure Compensation Act in 2000.
Grant money will be used for technical training of two staff members to increase their abilities in using many digital formats to engage and mobilize a broader audience, including remote Navajo communities, in environmental and social justice issues.