USDA Rolls Out 27 Job Creation & Business Growth Projects at NCAI Conference
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USDA Funding to Improve
Basic Services
The Northern Arizona Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology was selected to receive a $96,594 grant to develop a Native American technology network. The network will provide technical assistance to members of the Navajo and Fort Apache Reservations, home of the White Mountain Apache Tribe. The American Indian entrepreneurs will be able to access a mentor network comprised of business professionals who provide pro bono services. These reservations experience an unemployment rate more than 200 percent of the state rate. This project is projected to create 10 and save 20 jobs.
Funding is contingent upon the recipient meeting the conditions of the grant agreement. The following is a complete list of organizations that have been selected to receive Rural Business Enterprise Grants.
Alaska
- University of Alaska Anchorage, Small Business Development Center $250,000
Arizona
- Red Feather Development Group $33,520
- Northern Arizona Technology & Business Incubator, Inc., dba Northern Arizona Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology $96,594
- Sipaulovi Community Development Corporation $199,500
California
- Yurok Economic Development Corporation $99,000
- California Indian Manpower Consortium $114,143
Montana
- Northern Cheyenne Tribal Housing Authority $500,000
- Native American Development Corporation $194,235
North Dakota
- Standing Rock Sioux Tribe $50,000
- Coalition of Indian Housing Authorities of North Dakota $160,000
Nebraska
- Little Priest Tribal College $40,000
- Ho-Chunk Community Development Corporation $54,541
- First Ponca Financial, Inc. $60,189
New Mexico
- Ramah Navajo School Board, Inc. $50,000
Nevada
- Wells Band of the TeMoak Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians $52,800
- Moapa Band of Paiutes $65,000
Oklahoma
- Cherokee Nation $252,185
Oregon
- Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon $30,000
- Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde $30,000
South Carolina
- Catawba Cultural Preservation Project $99,000
South Dakota
- Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate $300,000
- Four Bands Community Fund, Inc. $99,000
- Lakota Funds, Inc. $99,900
Washington
- Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe $37,329
- Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians Economic Development $78,250
Wisconsin
- Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council, Inc. $99,999
- NiiJii Capital Partners, Inc. $85,770
posted June 19, 2012 10:40 am edt
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