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Family Economic Success in Native Communities: Adapting the Annie E. Casey Family Economic Success Framework to Rural and Reservation-based Native Communities (2004)

Family Economic Success in Native Communities: Adapting the Annie E. Casey Family Economic Success Framework to Rural and Reservation-based Native Communities (2004)
This paper was written for the Annie E. Casey Foundation to provide them with guidance on their investment strategies in Native communities. (Download copy)

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IABS Chapter 2: Financial Education

IABS Chapter 2: Financial Education
Financial literacy is increasingly recognized as a critical component of alleviating poverty and promoting economic development {in Native communities}… Limited financial expertise and inadequate financial education resources have significantly hindered the economic health of many Native communities.

–President Joseph Garcia, National Congress of American Indians (Download copy)

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IABS Chapter 3: Native IDAs

IABS Chapter 3: Native IDAs

This report focuses on Native grantmaking institutions, discusses grantmaking models, and attempts to provide a road map through the sometimes confusing field of Native grantmaking organizations. As part of an integrated asset-building program, Native-controlled grantmaking entities are supporting institution building through capitalizing nascent nonprofits in Native communities, and through funding innovative asset-building building strategies. (Download copy)

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IABS Chapter 4: Native Philanthropy

IABS Chapter 4: Native Philanthropy
In 1966, the Hopi Tribal Council entered into a lease arrangement with Peabody Coal Company tomine natural resources on Hopi traditional territories. This lease, negotiated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, has been fraught with controversy ever since. Today, however, the Hopi government acknowledges that the majority of the revenue for the tribal government comes from this lease arrangement, and that coal is a non-renewable natural resource. In 2000, the Hopi Tribal Council took action to ensure that some of these revenues would be preserved in perpetuity for future Hopi generations. The Hopi Education Endowment Fund was created in November 2000 as a form of community investment, with an initial endowment of $10 million.

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IABS Chapter 5: Earned Income Tax Credit

IABS Chapter 5: Earned Income Tax Credit
This chapter addresses the current and potential economic power related to the receipt of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) in Native communities. Although we begin with a brief description of EITC policy (at both federal and state levels), making a case for its significance
in the economic success of all families with low incomes, no attempt is made to provide a comprehensive history and assessment of the EITC, since literally thousands of articles, publications, and websites have been devoted to that effort in recent years. (Download copy)

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IABS Chapter 6: Native Community Development

IABS Chapter 6: Native Community Development
Native Community Development Financial Institutions (Native CDFIs) offer a locally controlled, community-responsive resource for credit and other financial services to support asset-based development in Native communities. As First Nations demonstrated with its Reservation
Economic Impact Study,1 and other community and economic development practitioners and scholars continue to point out, a lack of community-owned businesses drains the local economy because tribal members are forced to import the vast majority of the goods and
services they need from border towns (and even farther afield), perpetuating cycles of poverty and disenfranchisement. In addition, the lack of financial institutions within Native communities has hindered access to the financial services necessary to drive business development. (Download copy)

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IABS Chapter 7: Native Entrepreneurship

IABS Chapter 7: Native Entrepreneurship
Approaches to entrepreneurship and enterprise development in Native communities are as diverse as the communities themselves. There are over 560 federally recognized tribes in the United States, with populations ranging from a few hundred people to nearly 200,000.
Some tribes own a large land base, the most notable being the 17-million-acre Navajo Nation, and others only own a few acres of ancestral homeland. The geography
of federally recognized Indian tribes also differs — some tribes, such as the Salt River Pima Maricopa, have a reservation very near a large metropolitan area, and other tribes, such as the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, are located in very remote rural areas,
isolated from markets and services. Still other reservations, such as the Flathead Reservation of the Salish and Kootenai bands, are challenged by a large non-Native population residing on the reservation who dominate the local private economy. (Download copy)

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IABS Report-Educating, Advocating, Capitalizing (2007)

IABS Report-Educating, Advocating, Capitalizing (2007)
This report, titled "Integrated Asset Building Strategies for Reservation-Based Communities: A 27-Retrospective of First Nations Development Institute" provides an overview of First Nations Development Institute’s development philosophy and original research on asset building strategies such as financial education, CDFIs, IDAs, Native philanthropy, and entrepreneurship development. (Download copy)

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