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 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.

The ultimate purpose of this project is to 1) increase the amount and type of educational opportunities available for students at the CMN and for other small business owners located on and around the Menominee Indian Reservation in Wisconsin, and 2) to increase access to capital for the individuals that participate in the classes being offered.

The Oneida Young Entrepreneurs in Agriculture Program is geared toward High School age students to 1) increase knowledge on the Farm to Plate concepts with the development and marketing of a food product; 2) develop entrepreneurial skills in business through cost analysis, marketing, presentations, and sales of the product to the local school and marketplace as a fundraising program; 3) promote healthy foods and nutrition to other youth through this program.