From Empty Spaces to Community Places
Catawba Indian Nation Opens Doors to a New Community Resource Center Catawba Nation Community Librarian Rachel Hooper, MLIS, shares how the library will be open to the public and will share invaluable...
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Donor Spotlight on The Shift Network The Shift Network is an online transformational learning center that aims to unleash each person’s full potential to help make the world a more peaceful, healthy, ...
Smart Money Skills and Financial Investing
First Nations Financial Education Continues First Nations’ in-person financial education training and outreach continues strong into 2022 with the support of the FINRA Investor Education Foundation an...
A Tribute to a Special Colleague and Friend
Randy Blauvelt (April 8, 1954 – March 5, 2022) Randy Blauvelt, Senior Communications Officer “Randy started at First Nations and immediately he got it,” says First Nations President and CEO Michael Ro...
Inspiring a More Just World
Donor Spotlight on Michael Collins For Michael Collins, the desire to support Indigenous causes started with a fascination with Native cultures as a young boy. Over the years, that fascination has tra...
The Success of the Luce Indigenous Knowledge Fellowship
A Look Back at How it Began “First Nations and the Henry Luce Foundation have done a phenomenal job of bringing us together to share knowledge and disrupt that idea of who holds knowledge. What’s comf...
Land Back: How Two Tribes are Re-Acquiring and Leveraging Community Forests
There is an ongoing movement to get land back into the hands of Native communities. This movement can not only right the historical injustices that led to their land dispossession in the first place, ...
Financial Education Goes On: Money Smarts ’21 Engages Students in the Wake of Pandemic
Learning how to manage finances ensures that Native people are more likely to save and invest in their own economic freedom, strength, and prosperity. With that focus at heart, First Nations provides ...
Native Youth Business Plan Competition Fosters Culture, Opens Doors
For Victor Corpuz (Laguna), presenting a business plan before a gathering of Native business leaders and entrepreneurs provided not only a skills-building exercise, but an opportunity to acknowledge a...
Innovative Teen Turns Small Gifts Into Big Impact
Exciting Update on First Nations Donor Jacob Stein! On May 4, 2022, Jacob received the prestigious Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) international 2022 William R. Simms Award for Outstand...
Guided to Learn, Inspired to Thrive
‘O Makuʻu Ke Kahua Community Center is Building Community and Passing Down Traditional Food Knowledge on Māla Ho`oulu `Ike The O Makuʻu Ke Kahua Community Center provides a community hub, as wel...
Tribal Retreat Provides Creative Space for Oceti Sakowin Writers
Last month, the Oak Lake Writers’ Society continued a 28-year tradition of bringing together Oceti Sakowin writers to explore and express issues and ideas relevant to their tribal communities. First N...