Awarded Grants

The goal is to create opportunities for tribal college students, and tribal community members, to access training from the local tribal college, as well as customized follow up technical assistance, and a loan, if necessary from the Lummi CDFI to start up or expand a business. This will promote growth of the private sector businesses within the Lummi Nation and surrounding tribal communities.

The ultimate purpose of DY MESA's Zuni Past, Zuni Future is to (1) create the opportunity for Zuni youth to learn first-hand about the Zuni migration story, one of the most critical components of Zuni traditions and culture and (2) increase cultural knowledge and language skills among participants. Additionally, Zuni Past, Zuni Future will aims to increase participants' sense of identity as Zunis, their connection to their language and culture, their pride in the history of the Zuni people and their aspirations for their lives as future Zuni leaders.

The ultimate purpose of the Intergenerational Project is to 1) create a stronger bond between San Felipe youth and elders, 2) significantly increasing our youth's knowledge of our language and traditional ways of life, 3) utilizing the life experiences of our elders to help our youth understand the importance of our native culture, and 4) benefiting our elders by giving them a sense of responsibility and contribution, increasing their quality of life.

The purpose of this project it to create a system of training that will give native owned businesses and entrepreneurs that extra investment in their business that will increase their profits and make them more successful. Currently neither Native CDFIs or native owned businesses have the time or resource to provide or attend training that will improve important aspects of their business. This project will serve to do this.

This project's overall objective is to create a connection for businesses and entrepreneurship training. Collaboration between the tribal colleges and local CDFIs will be to training for entrepreneurs and create access to business start-up loans and business support. The end result of this project will be to ultimately increase opportunities created for tribal members and non-tribal community members to take part in the development and enhancement of the tribal economy.

The ultimate purpose of this project is to perpetuate and share language and culture with our Tribal citizens and others interested in our Ahtna Athabascan lifeways. The success of this project will be accomplished by having students attending the Ya Ne Dah Ah School instructed on web page design and blogging. Students will share information learned from Elder interviews and cultural lessons via social media platforms.