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2014

Save & Secure Project

2014 Save & Secure Project

$3,500
United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma ok Created with Sketch. Tahlequah, OK

Community Partners

United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma

Funding Area

Program Asset Building

Description

We will provide the development of a client working towards their life goals; workshops with topics such as career readiness, networking, job coaching, educational resources, public school value, and saving for your future. To help young tribal members identify a goal(financial literacy and family budgeting), uncover their individual strengths and understand and implement the steps they need to take to make the goal a reality on a short term basis.Assist students in financial literacy including career paths and counseling to develop an action plan for reaching self-sufficiency along with milestones to mark progress.Individual Financial/Education Plans will be developed for participants.

2014

Credit Counseling and Debt Management

2014 Credit Counseling and Debt Management

$3,500
Housing Authority of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma ok Created with Sketch. Wewoka, OK

Community Partners

The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma

Funding Area

Program Asset Building

Description

Offering Credit Counseling and Debt Management will give tribal members a vital tool in making successful lifelong choices. Our vision at the Housing Authority is to educate each and every one of our tribal members and tenants the importance of Credit and Budgeting, and how to take responsibility when it comes to paying personal bills, utilities, and rent. Our ultimate goal getting our tribal members to own and purchase a home, having a staff member trained and HUD certified will discontinue the process of having an outside source educate tribal members and give us the responsibility to do it in-house.

2014

MCN Foreclosure Intervention Project

2014 MCN Foreclosure Intervention Project

$3,500
Muscogee (Creek) Nation ok Created with Sketch. Okmulgee, OK

Community Partners

The Muscogee (Creek) Nation

Funding Area

Program Asset Building

Description

The program purpose and goal is to provide the tools, training, education and knowledge to our citizens to prevent foreclosure. This program grant will allow us to meet the program purpose of helping our citizens to achieve the goal of foreclosure prevention.

2014

SummerSmart: Wichita Summer Youth Program

2014 SummerSmart: Wichita Summer Youth Program

$3,500
Wichita and Affiliated Tribes ok Created with Sketch. Anadarko, OK

Community Partners

Wichita and Affiliated Tribes

Funding Area

Program Asset Building

Description

The purpose of the SummerSmart: Wichita Summer Youth Program is to built tribal pride through teaching Wichita history and culture, to teach good health practices, and teach sound financial responsibility. Youth participants also will gain income for their personal needs. Up to five tribal teens will serve as interns assisting in educational, artistic and physical activities for at least 12 tribal youth. Under adult staff supervision, students will work with cultural experts to learn Wichita language, art and history; tribal professionals on health, safety and nutrition; and economics professionals to gain knowledge and experience in basic financial planning and expertise.

2014

The Preservation of Language, Culture, and Traditional Way of Life

2014 The Preservation of Language, Culture, and Traditional Way of Life

$15,875
Pueblo of Santo Domingo - Education Department nm Created with Sketch. Santo Domingo Pueblo, NM

Community Partners

Pueblo of Santo Domingo

Funding Area

Description

The ultimate purpose is to 1) retain our keres language and traditional culture for our future generations can continue the traditional way of life by speaking the keres language and participating in our cultural/traditional activities (i.e. dancing, farming, preserving the language) and 2) it will significantly increase self-confidence and self-identity in our youth. So, therefore, this project will assist us to leverage & expand communication and bridge the gaps between elders and our younger generation.

2014

Navajo Tax Initiative of 2013 Project, Part 4

2014 Navajo Tax Initiative of 2013 Project, Part 4

$18,492
Community Area Resource Enterprises, Inc. nm Created with Sketch. Gallup, NM

Description

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 legislation impacting community health by targeting specific chapter community members, delegates, and the public.

2014

Bay Mills Youth Farm Stand

2014 Bay Mills Youth Farm Stand

$37,500
Bay Mills Community College mi Created with Sketch. Brimley, MI

Community Partners

Bay Mills Indian Community, Michigan

Description

Bay Mills Community College will create a Youth Farm Stand program which will engage youth in culturally relevant, sustainable agricultural practices while teaching entrepreneurial skills. Michigan State University Extension will partner in our efforts through the provision of training and technical assistance as developers of the Youth Farm Stand program model. The Youth Farm Stand will provide reasonably priced fresh produce to tribal members living in a designated food desert. A portion of the proceeds from the Farm Stand will be remitted to youth as a method of retaining participants and teaching money management skills.