Awarded Grants

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 inter-generational community-based project is to create a sustainable elder food system model that brings together multiple community resources traditionally available in most tribal communities to ensure our elders have locally grown, healthy food sources readily available to them.

The ultimate purpose of this project is to support community health and wellness on the Navajo Nation through public education, public awareness and advocacy. This project will implement a multi-media campaign to educate and create awareness of Healthy Dine' Nation Act by targeting specific chapter community members, delegates, and the public.