During 2012, the Nooksack Indian Tribe based in Deming, Washington, was awarded a $20,000 grant under First Nations’ Native Youth and Culture Fund, which is part of our effort to strengthen Native American nonprofit organizations. In particular, the fund looks for projects that focus on youth and incorporate culture and tradition. They can include efforts to preserve, strengthen or renew cultural and spiritual practices, beliefs, values and languages, or which engage both youth and elders in activities designed to share or document traditional knowledge, or increasing the leadership capacity of tribal youth.
In January 2013, First Nations concluded another successful Building Native Communities train-the-trainer event in Albuquerque, New Mexico. We were joined by many of our friends from the Office of the Special Trustee for American Indians (OST), along with a high school financial-education teacher and representatives from tribal housing programs.
One of First Nations Development Institute’s grantees, White Earth Land Recovery Project (WELRP) on the White Earth Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota, recently completed a great new guide for establishing farm-to-school programs in Native communities. The publication is titled Indigenous Farm-to-School Programs: A Guide for Creating a Farm-to-School Program in an Indigenous Community.
To help youth learn the savings habit, First Nations Development Institute is partnering with two high schools and Pinnacle Bank in Gallup, New Mexico, to offer a Youth Savings Account (YSA) program for Native students.
The two tribes are situated far from each other – more than 1,600 miles apart – with one in northeastern Wisconsin and the other in northeastern Arizona. They experience totally different climates and landscapes, and enjoy distinctly different cultural underpinnings and practices.
Nonetheless, the Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin and the Hopi Education Endowment Fund, a Section 7871 program of the Hopi Tribe of Arizona, are partnering in an effort to improve both of their communities,..
Part of First Nations’ mission is to provide financial education for Native American communities so that people can save, invest, prosper, and regain control of their assets. The goal is to help people learn to avoid financial pitfalls such as predatory lending practices that especially prey on American Indian people. As part of this effort, we recently completed a “how to” manual that provides instruction on how Native and rural communities can start a VITA site, or a “Voluntary Income Tax Assistance” program.
Where can someone find up to $6,000 to supplement their income? And what can be done with that found money? The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is one of the largest antipoverty programs operated by the federal government, defined by the Internal Revenue Service as a benefit for low- to moderate-income working people
Hunkpati Investments, Inc. established the Crow Creek Fresh Food Initiative (CCFFI) to grow healthy children and communities through educational programs and activities that connect tribal youth and families with food – from seed to table. Hunkpati worked to create the initiative with support from a First Nations grant, underwritten by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
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