Awarded Grants

The ultimate purpose is to improve and ensure collaborative outreach efforts between Metro Denver's Urban American Indian serving agencies. The project will increase participation in programs that build the assets of healthy families. This purpose will be accomplished by: 1) intentional outreach and marketing efforts to recruit participants in programs and key volunteer positions; and 2) creating greater collaborative opportunities and strategies among Urban Indian Organizations in Metro Denver to respond to a fast growing AI/AN community; and 3) leveraging the project to increase assets, projects and resources for Urban Indian Organizations in Metro Denver to create better opportunities.

Ultimately, we expect to see the following changes in the community: Long term: i. Foster change in the community culture and grow employment capacity. ii. Program replication in other communities nationwide iii. Build wealth over time to gradually improve poverty ratios at Little Earth. iv. Create micro businesses at Little Earth which eventually could become resident-owned. Short term: i. Increase education opportunities. ii. Increase personal financial skills to better manage income and expenses. iii. Create hope for families. iv. Create marketable skills in the community. v. Provide employment opportunities.

The ultimate purpose is to establish an outreach and communications strategy with the potential to increase revenues from grants, donations, and workshop fees, which will strengthen the financial position of the microenterprise, IDA and CDFI programs, in turn increasing those programs' reach and service in our communities, and enabling increased direct aid to families through our housing and energy assistance programs, and expand the reach of our career-skills and workforce-training programming. The outcomes of these programs will improve as the process of tracking and managing the related data is developed.

DCAA will seek passage of the Navajo tax resolution on sweetened sugar drinks and junk foods to reduce the purchase and consumption of these no value foods and drinks; in addition to revenues generated will be distributed to Navajo communities for wellness projects owned and developed by the local Navajo people

The ultimate purpose of our project is 1) to maintain and revitalize our Cochiti Keres Language so that it may be actively utilized in the daily/ceremonial lives of our people and protect our worldview, 2) to increase and re-engage the participation of the grandparent and parent generations with the efforts targeted at the youth generation so that we can maintain our Cochiti Keres language, and finally, to create a group of speakers, the children attending KCLC, who will have the peer support, support of their families and know that they will be spoken to in Keres when they go home.