by Whitney Sawney | Mar 28, 2024
Akiptan Inc. is a Native CDFI who aims to fairly provide capital and technical support to Native Farmers and Ranchers. Using NAAF funding, they will complete a market study, provide further access to capital for Native producers and create new loan products for Native...
by Whitney Sawney | Mar 28, 2024
The Zuni Youth Enrichment Project (ZYEP) Rooted in Healthy Traditions: After-school Food Sovereignty Program for Zuni Youth is a 12-month after-school program that will provide 240 Zuni youth with increased opportunities to participate in Zuni’s traditional...
by Whitney Sawney | Mar 28, 2024
From the Ground Up: Development of the Yurok Food Villages will fund land surveys that are needed to determine the location of three centralized Food Villages throughout the Yurok Indian Reservation. With NAAF funding, the project will build infrastructure focused on...
by Whitney Sawney | Mar 28, 2024
Woodland Financial provides loans and related development services including technical support, business assistance and training to underserved persons within economically distressed communities. With NAAF funding NiiCaP will focus on Indigenous Food Sovereignty and...
by Whitney Sawney | Mar 28, 2024
Wishtoyo will build expertise among beginning Native farmers and ranchers by engaging experts on wild tending, farming, harvesting and permaculture design. Wishtoyo will recruit and train members of the Chumash and California Native communities to participate in wild...