We are Moving!

Please note our new address
EFFECTIVE Sept 1st, 2010:

First Nations Development Institute
351 Coffman Street – Suite 200
Longmont, CO 80501

Partnership In Action:

Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe and the Spokane Tribe

In 2008, First Nations Development Institute launched the Native Asset Building Partnership Project (NABPP), aimed at strengthening the institutions and governance capacity of American Indian nations in the upper Midwest and Northwest. Overall, this project has focused on peer leaning as a strategy to improve tribal control and management of assets for the benefit of Native communities. Two participants in this project have been the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe's Department of Natural Resources and Sovereign Power Inc., a wholly owned corporation of the Spokane Tribe of Washington. Read More

• News - First Nations pilots high school financial education curriculum
• Report - Native Asset-Building Coalitions: Promising Practices and Sustainability
• Report - Native American Asset Watch: Rethinking Asset-Building in Indian Country
• Report - Use of Refund Anticipation Loans in Native American Communities
• Report - Integrated Asset Building Strategies: A 27-Year Retrospective of First Nations...
• Report - First Nations 2008 Annual Report

• Apply Here - 2011 Leadership & Entrepreneurial Apprentice Development (LEAD) Program
• Apply Here - Building Resilience in Indigenous Communities Initiative - Deadline Sept. 30
• Travel grants available - Southwest Regional Training Institute (SCF) Acoma, NM - October 22-23
• Applications being accepted for new IDA projects by the Office of Community Services
• Apply Now - for the Bank of America Charitable Foundation's Neighborhood Excellence Initiative
• Wanted: A Few Good Indianpreneurers
  (We're looking for American Indian students who...)

• Native American Rehabilitation Association of the NW, Portland, OR, Aug 31–Sept 3
• ONAC 2010 Fall Asset Building Symposium, Durant, OK, Sept 13
• Leadership Summit on Family Financial Stability, Durango, CO, Sept 14-15
• NAFOA’s 28th Annual Finance Conference, Jersey City, NJ, Sept 14-15
• Early Childhood Care & Family Develop. Conference, Prescott, Arizona, Sept 17 – 18
• Native Asset Building Pre-conference Session, Washington, DC, Sept 21
• 2010 Asset Learning Conference, Washington, D.C., Sept 22-24
• Southwest Regional Training Institute (SCF), Acoma, NM - Oct 22-23
• Opportunity Finance Network 26th annual Conference, San Francisco, CA Nov 2-5

• Bank of America’s Homebuyer Purchase Experience is now online
• Native Ways Federation-Supporting Nonprofits Working for Indian Country
• Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Project