Dine Be Iina, Inc.

General Operating Support

COVID-19 Response

Dine Be’Iiná will utilize training in strategic planning to increase our capacity to leverage resources, strengthen our programs and retain vital cultural teachings. Creating a strategic plan will increase the quality of decision making in our organization; enhance control in budgeting and operations; increase impact and participation in our programs.

This project will utilize our spin off groups to create an apprenticeship and mentoring program that will allow us to increase the scope and quality of our fiber arts education and outreach programs. We will leverage resources to retain ancestral Navajo textile techniques, increase knowledge and ability to teach others.

Our project will retain and increase the knowledge of traditional foods, foster food sovereignty and self-sufficiency of Navajo families. We utilize apprenticeships, our Sheep is Life event, volunteers and leverage partner resources to create educational events, cookbook, producer directory, database, and improve Navajo-Churro sheep production for our local food system.

The ultimate purpose is to 1) increase Board of Directors participation to leverage external funding sources; improve visibility and mission of the organization, understand roles/responsibility of board of directors, utilize board of directors skills in creating future projects relating to mission of organization, understand and retain fiduciary responsibility of BOD 2) provide Staff technical training in the following areas: financial/book keeping literacy, office management procedures, reporting guidelines, utilize staff managerial skills in planning for future and current projects, increase participation with current and future projects and 3) increase marketing potentials for Fiber Artisans working with value added products. Utilize and retain Fiber Artisans skills in creating value added products. Understanding the business of selling products to include: labeling products, customer service, inventory count of merchandise before and after a show sale, tax rates, creating business cards and learning about e-commerce sales.