First Nations Education Foundation (FNEF) is an organization collaborating with First Nation Governments in supporting their language revitalization efforts. By working with the community, they hope to use interactive technology and educational practices to support at-risk languages. Currently, they are working on a pilot program with the Yuułu?ił?ath Government (Ucluelet First Nation) in Ucluelet, BC. Their process of preserving existing knowledge includes professionally recording elders, creating living dictionaries, listening to community feedback, developing curriculum, using digital tools (such as quizzes and social forums).
“Not an endowment fund, FNEF is a foundation in the sense that it provides nations with an infrastructure and methodology through which they can create and sustain their own language revitalization efforts independently and autonomously. The result is an organic process where language resources are streamlined into a comprehensive archive and made accessible to the whole community through an open-ended digital platform. A 21st century approach makes contemporary learning strategies feasible for small communities and offers real hope for Indigenous language revitalization.”