The First Nations Oweesta Corporation (Oweesta) is pleased to offer a grant opportunity for Native organizations serving Native communities and people in South Dakota. With funding provided by the Federal Home Loan Bank of Des Moines, Oweesta launched the second year of the South Dakota Native Financial Education Grant that awards four mini-grants in the amount of $2,000 each to Native organizations delivering financial education training and/or homebuyer education to Native people in the state of South Dakota.

The 2009 recipients are: Oglala Sioux Tribe Partnership for Housing, on the Pine Ridge Reservation; Four Bands Community Fund on the Cheyenne River Reservation, and Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Financial Education Initiative, on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation.