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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In the spirit of #OCAC21 to bring capital to Native communities, we celebrate Vice President Kamala Harris show of support to CDFIs. Last week, Lisa Mensah, President and CEO of Opportunity Finance Network joined The U.S. Department of the Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, Representative Maxine Waters, and Senator Mark Warner as Vice President Kamala Harris announced $1.25B in federal awards for more than 800 #CDFIs. It was an honor to have the tenacity of CDFIs - especially of Native CDFIs - be recognized by Lisa Mensah during her remarks.
Watch the recording: bit.ly/3vrOlwO
In Less than One Hour: Our 6th Annual Native CDFI Capital Access Convening opens with remarks from our Keynote Speaker Edgar Villanueva, Principal of Decolonizing Wealth Project, followed by a crucial conversation on the continued invisibility Native communities experience. A panel of illustrious Native leaders including Nick Tilsen from NDNCollective, Mike Roberts from First Nations Development Institute, Heather Sobrepena from Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, and Sherry Salway Black address inequity in capital access.
Registrations are still open: www.nativecdficonvening.org/
Starting soon! Our Pre-Conference day kicks off in less than an hour. Join our 6th Annual Native CDFI Capital Access Convening to learn how we can bridge capital and social impact. www.nativecdficonvening.org/ #OCAC21 #RootedInCommunity
A huge thank you to Wells Fargo, NeighborWorks America, Northwest Area Foundation, Clearinghouse CDFI, and Highlands SRI for sponsoring our 6th Annual Native CDFI Capital Access Convening, and VidMob for their in-kind partnership. We look forward to convening with Native CDFIs, investors, and economic justice advocates working to bring wealth and financial capacity to Indian Country this June. Check out our lineup of sessions, workshops, and networking opportunities here: www.nativecdficonvening.org/event/5fc850ec-e5cd-4bc6-90e0-eae5d10fc195/websitePage:645d57e4-75eb-... #OCAC21 #RootedInCommunity
Join us at #OCAC21, June 22-24, for a crucial conversation on inequity in capital access. We have seen Native Communities categorized as "Something Else" and this continued invisibility plays out in a myriad of ways, particularly in investment in communities and Native-led organizations. Register today to hear from this illustrious panel of Native leaders addressing economic inequality across a variety of sectors and systems. www.nativecdficonvening.org/
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Really enjoying @Oweesta’s Native CDFI Capital Access Convening … & couldn’t agree more with @VillanuevaEdgar here + others on narrative change and data visibility. Looking forward to continued work and advocacy to advance economic opportunity in Indian Country. https://twitter.com/Oweesta/status/1407394498485768194
“Decolonizing funding and investment processes is key to our healing,” @VillanuevaEdgar opens #OCAC21 with poignant words on shifting the power of money. We thank Edgar Villanueva for opening our event on a call for the healing of Indigenous culture and institutions.
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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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