First Nations Development Institute

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For more than 30 years, First Nations Development Institute (First Nations) has worked with Native nations and organizations to strengthen American Indian economies and support healthy Native communities. As an extension of this mission, the L.E.A.D. conference is designed to help emerging and existing leaders in Indian Country network, share ideas and learn new skills related to asset-building.

Diné bé Iina will work to promote economic development, maintain culture, provide food and restore farming. Diné bé Iiná is a nonprofit organization of producers and weavers that aims to assist sheep, goat and fiber producers on the Navajo Nation with technical and educational information that supports economic self-sufficiency.

The project targets the 78% of American Indians/Alaska Natives who live off reservation, according to Census Bureau data. Historically, First Nations has worked with rural and reservation-based Native communities, so it partnered with NUIFC in order to bring the significant strengths of both organizations to the effort. Urban Indian organizations, some of which were launched in the 1940s and 50s, are an important support to Native families and individuals, providing cultural linkages as well as being a hub for accessing essential services.

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation, founded in 1930 by breakfast cereal pioneer Will Keith Kellogg, is among the largest philanthropic foundations in the United States. Based in Battle Creek, Mich., WKKF works nationally and internationally, and engages with communities in priority places in across the U.S., Mexico and Haiti to create conditions that propel vulnerable children to realize their full potential in school, work and life. For more information, visit www.wkkf.org .

The Christensen Fund is a private foundation founded in 1957 and based in San Francisco, California. Since 2003, its focus has been bio-cultural diversity. Under a complex, holistic approach, the Fund seeks to support the resilience of living diversity at landscape and community level around the world in partnerships with indigenous peoples and others. Its grant-making programs are currently focused around five unusual geographic priority regions and selected global bio-cultural initiatives. More information can be found at www.christensenfund.org .

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