Awarded Grants

The ultimate purpose is to develop a trail maintenance program that would consist of tribal trained youth in conservation and environmental methods. We also can utilize this to leverage more volunteers from Montana Conservation Corps and Americorps for additional workers to construct even more trails. This will provide a classroom effect for learning and training purposes for the area schools and the tribal college. It will serve as a health component for the tribal residents and the Tribal Health Department.

The ultimate purpose of the CDKC Financial Savvy Empowerment Program is to provide CDKC student-parents and their families opportunities to gain control of their financial assets, increase their knowledge of financial management and leverage their resources to make significant changes in their college years that will affect short and long-term systemic changes in their lives. Students will ultimately: (a) improve their socio-economic conditions, (b) strengthen their personal finances, (c) increase knowledge-based savings skills, (d) shift from survival economics to members of a global economy and (e) improve the quality of life for their families.

Create Native assets by supporting opportunities for Native American students nationwide.

Create Native assets by supporting scholarship opportunities for Native American students in Colorado.

The ultimate purpose is to leverage HCA's AmeriCorps VISTA project, secured funding, and existing partnerships with Native Hawaiian-controlled nonprofits and CDFIs to establish an integrated asset building system that will increase access to affordable housing for Native Hawaiians residing in urban Trust lands. Further, the project will create a Native Hawaiian Asset Building Coalition that will serve as a vehicle for democratic control of leveraged resources for the integrated asset building system and for increasing the professional skills of VISTA members as part of a multi-organization succession plan to prepare our next generation of Native Hawaiian economic development leaders.

The ultimate purpose of the Integrated Community Placement Project is to increase economic equity for American Indians living in and around South Minneapolis. This will be accomplished by training them in high-wage, high-demand occupations. Additionally, the employability of project's participants will increase because they are entering the labor market with directly-related work experience that was attained through their apprenticeship.

The ultimate purpose of PAID is to create an effective and innovative financial literacy program for urban Native youth that will: 1) empower the most at-risk youth and young adults in our community to navigate their own finances while building self-sufficiency skills, 2) become an established AICRC program that the agency can use to serve youth for many years to come, 3) Leverage intensive/wrap around case management to positively impact participants’ attitudes, leading to greater self-sufficiency and more positive outlooks, and 4) serve as an easily transferrable model for programs serving similar Native youth populations in other urban areas.