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Anishinaabe Center
ESF Start up / Business development
Marvin Manypenny Tel: (218)846-9463
[White Earth Band of Chippewa. 2/28/2001. $21,066]
To support the development of marketing material for the Manidoo Jimin Wild Rice Company, including a web site, brochure and catalogs, and packaging design.

ESF Start up / Marketing
Marvin Manypenny Tel: (218)846-9463
[White Earth Band of Chippewa. 8/22/2001. $17,917]
To support start-up endeavors of selling Wild Rice in the California area.

ESF - Seed / Business development
Marvin Manypenny Tel: (218)846-9463
[White Earth Band of Chippewa. 5/26/1999. $5,000]
To develop a business plan and marketing study for the purchase, processing and marketing of wild rice.

ESF - Native Nonprofit Capacity Building - Carnegie / Organizational Effectiveness
Marvin Manypenny Tel: (218)846-9463
[White Earth Band of Chippewa. 7/26/2002. $3,000]
To study the feasibility of the Center's arts and crafts gallery, specifically its ability to make a profit.

Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe
Sustainable Forestry Fund / Training & Capacity Building
David M. McInerny Tel: (218) 335-7400 Fax: (218) 335-7430
[Leech Lake Band of Chippewa. 10/29/2002. $2,709]
To participate in the Indigenous Assessors Training, November 2002, San Carlos Apache Reservation. David McInerney and Patrick Haugan.

Native Americans in Philanthropy
ESF-Native Nonprofit Capacity Building - Bremer / Organizational Effectiveness
Jo-Anne E. Stately Tel: (651) 224-5463 / jes@saintpaulfoundation.org
[National www.nativephilanthropy.org 7/26/2002. $10,000]
To conduct strategic planning for NAP leadership transition and organizational development.

ESF-Native Nonprofit Capacity Building - Bremer / Organizational Effectiveness
Joy Persall Tel: (612) 724-8798 Fax: (612) 879-0613
[National www.nativephilanthropy.org 4/1/2004. $15,000]
To enhance communication products serving the needs of its membership by installing appropriate technology to develop website and membership database for effective, widespread communication.

Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians
Sustainable Forestry Fund / Forest Management Assessment
Robert Lintelmann / robertl@paulbunyan.net
[12/12/2002. $32,370]
Completion of a Forest Stewardship Council assessment of tribal forestlands.
[Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians.
White Earth Land Recovery Project
ESF Start up / Marketing
Winona LaDuke Tel: (218)573-3448 Fax: (218)573-3444
[White Earth Band of Chippewa. 10/19/1994. $30,000]
To support the development of sustainable agricultural program, including the enhancement of domestic distribution and strategic marketing programs.

ESF Start up / Agriculture, farming and ranching
Winona LaDuke Tel: (218)573-3448 Fax: (218)573-3444
[White Earth Band of Chippewa. 9/4/1996. $30,000]
To develop and implement a marketing strategy to sell food products on a large scale.

Rose Community Gardens / Community development and empowerment
George Scherzer Tel: (218)983-3285 ext. 394
[White Earth Band of Chippewa www.whiteearth.com 2/25/2000. $1,250]
To establish community gardens in two villages on the reservation, Rice Lake and Naytahwaush.

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