Training & Technical Assistance
Oweesta offers culturally appropriate training programs to help Native organizations establish and sustain financial education. Oweesta assists certified and emerging Native CDFIs with individualized training and technical assistance with systematic multi-faceted program delivery. Our goal is to help create and sustain healthy and thriving Native CDFI operations.
Lending & Capitalization
As the only existing Native CDFI intermediary, Oweesta is supported by both debt and equity investments to our capitalization base allowing us to offer diverse financial products and development services to Native communities across the nation. Oweesta understands the crucial need for investment capital in Native CDFIs and is dedicated to creating appropriate loan products enabling reinvestment of capital back into Native communities.
Research & Policy Advocacy
As a leader in the Native CDFI industry, Oweesta strives to inform potential investors, federal agencies, and the general public on the current industry climate. By speaking out on relevant issues, we are able to effect change at state and federal levels to further not only our efforts, but the efforts of our clients to create healthy, thriving local economies. We encourage Native communities to join us in our advocacy work. It is within unity that we will find strength in our collective voice.
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Just received this amazing conference welcome box in the mail from Native CDFI Network for their 2020 Virtual Annual Policy & Capacity Building Summit! Thank you and can’t wait to attend the conference this week! #nativecdfi
What a great new coalition of Mountain | Plains Native CDFIs! We are proud to have worked with them on this report of the impact of COVID-19 on the region with a special focus on agriculture.
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In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Native CDFIs are relying on regional networks to best serve their communities’ immediate and long-term needs.www.commondreams.org
The new legislation, according to Sanders' office, would help "families generate savings, wealth, and credit, while bringing millions of American workers into a more fair banking system."www.ruraltransformation.org
Partners for Rural Transformation strengthens local economies — generating local wealth that sticks — and builds power among those living in some of the most disinvested parts of the country. By drawing on our collective voice and shared experiences, we’re working toward a reimagined future fo...–
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Thank you #NativeCDFIs, funders, investors, and partners who joined us for our 5th Annual Native CDFI Capital Access Convening OCAC20 - and who stuck with us as we went virtual for the first time! Save the Date (June 2021, Missoula, MT) - can't wait to see you all in person! 😃🥰
Open, rolling applications to join @OppFinance #Native CDFIs! 😃
"We've learned that the size of the asset doesn't dictate the power of the loan," Lisa Mensah @OppFinance at #OCAC20.
"Being hyper local" has major benefits, Lisa Mensah @OppFinance shares at #OCAC20.
"How can we innovate to have the deepest impact we can possibly have," Lisa Mensah @OppFinance asks #CDFIs and investors. #OCAC20
"It's a call to get serious with the areas that have been most left out," Lisa Mensah @OppFinance referring to going deeper and address persistent poverty areas. #OCAC20
"My definition of 'go deeper' is my rallying cry of addressing areas of persistent poverty," Lisa Mensah @OppFinance at #OCAC20
CONTACT US
Oweesta Corporation
2432 Main Street, 1st Floor
Longmont, CO 80501
303.774.8838
info@oweesta.org
Oweesta is an equal opportunity employer and provider.
ABOUT OWEESTA
Oweesta is the only existing Native CDFI intermediary offering financial products and development services exclusively to Native CDFIs and Native communities. Specifically, Oweesta provides training, technical assistance, investments, research, and policy advocacy to help Native communities develop an integrated range of asset-building products and services, including financial education and financial products.
Asset-building tools stimulate reservation economies by providing tribal members the opportunity to acquire financial management skills and build and accumulate assets through small business creation, homeownership, education, and much more.
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