by Whitney Sawney | Mar 28, 2024
Lakota Funds, a Native CDFI serving the Oglala Lakota Tribe on Pine Ridge Reservation, has supported Native farmers and ranchers through business lending, coaching and training since 1986. NAAF funding will continue to provide critically needed access to capital for...
by Whitney Sawney | Mar 28, 2024
Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe College is a Tribal college servicing five Ojibwe reservations in northwest Wisconsin. With NAAF funding, LCOOC will introduce their Food Sovereignty Project to empower youth in five Ojibwe Tribal communities through agricultural enrichment...
by Whitney Sawney | Mar 28, 2024
The Kohala Center has been engaged in agribusiness assistance, adult and youth agriculture education, and farmer training programs since 2011. With NAAF funding, the Kohala Center will increase production and consumption of Native foods through agricultural education,...
by Whitney Sawney | Mar 28, 2024
Klawock Cooperative Association (KCA), a federally recognized Tribe in southeast Alaska, has a high citizen engagement with traditional foods. With NAAF funding, they will build from the existing Traditional Foods Program with paid Tribal youth internships, educating...
by Whitney Sawney | Mar 28, 2024
The Hupa and Yurok tribes that reside along the Trinity River have relied the salmon migration for subsistence since time immemorial. The Klamath Trinity Resource Conservation District with NAAF funding will implement the Regeneration of Fishing Project on the Hoopa...