“Five Cs” Help High School Kids “See”

Our efforts to boost the financial literacy of reservation and Native communities don’t just aim at adults and business people. They also involve youngsters so they can develop good financial habits at an early age. At Gallup Central High School in New Mexico, we piloted the W.K. Kellogg Foundation-supported school curriculum called First Nations’ Financial Literacy: Life on Your Own Terms.

Say It Again in Salish: Native Youth = Native America’s Future

In our effort to strengthen Native American nonprofits and encourage new ones, First Nations also focuses on empowering Native youth through the Native Youth and Culture Fund, which is generously supported by the Kalliopeia Foundation along with other foundations, tribal, corporate and individual donors. We believe Native youth represent the future success and well being of our communities, and that cultural and language preservation is a key aspect of that empowerment.

First Nations Supports Native Hawaiian Financial Literacy

Financial education that is timely, relevant and actionable proves to be the most effective, according to research. First Nations Development Institute has created or sponsored curricula that meet those criteria in the lives of Native youth. They are relevant, interactive and presented in a multimedia format.

First Nations Establishing National Training Center at HQ in Colorado

The U.S. Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women has provided start-up funding to launch a new national training center at First Nations Development Institute's headquarters in Longmont, Colorado.

Helping Save Old Pomo Languages With New Technology

There are 21 federally recognized Pomo Tribes of California, but many of them have as few as three Native language speakers, making the Pomo languages highly endangered, or more accurately, near extinction. To lose them would mean forever losing cultural and historical treasures of tremendous value.

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