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Investing in Native Sovereignty

For over 20 years, Oweesta has provided the tools, training, and capital to help Native people control their economic destinies.

OUR APPROACH

8,524

Native Individuals Financed by Our Partners

172

investment partners
(as of March 2022)

2868

hours of technical assistance provided by Oweesta
(as of Dec 2021)

$37.6M

current loan portfolio
(as of March 2022)

NATIVE CDFI STORY

The Rolling Rez Gives “Mobile Banking” a New Meaning

Every two weeks, on Tribal Pay Days, when the Tribe (the largest employer on the Pine Ridge Reservation) disperses paychecks, a brightly painted bus pulls up. The Rolling Rez is a bank on wheels that travels the fifty miles from Kyle to Pine Ridge, South Dakota, and services Tribal employees with their banking needs. People have access to cash, deposit their paychecks, sign loan documents, open accounts – virtually everything a local branch does.

OUR RESOURCES

Cultivating Equity

Historically most forms of wealth have been divested from Native lands. We’re reimagining how money can be placed in Native hands to become small businesses, homes, job opportunities, and much more.

ABOUT

Who We Are

Oweesta is the longest standing Native CDFI intermediary offering financial products and development services exclusively to Native CDFIs and Native communities.

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SERVICES

What We Do

Oweesta provides the tools and training to help Native communities treat a loan like an investment. Our trainings are centered around the understanding that Native people have been practicing resource management skills for generations, and seek to connect people’s ancestral experience with the acquisition of modern-day financial management skills.

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EVENTS

Upcoming Trainings and Events

Oweesta regularly hosts webinars, events, and trainings relevant and beneficial to the Native economic development landscape.

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IMPACT

Who We Serve

We partner with Native CDFIs who serve as the economic pillars of their communities.

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INDUSTRY DATA

State of the Field

Oweesta, in partnership with Native CDFIs, is leading data gathering efforts to understand the state of the field and gain an understanding the next level of Native CDFI impact measurement. It is within unity that we will find strength in our collective voice.

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RESOURCES

Learn More

Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together. By speaking out on relevant issues and sharing research and findings, we are able to affect change at state and federal levels to further not only our efforts, but the efforts of our clients to create healthy, thriving local economies.

RESOURCES

WHAT’S NEXT

We Need You

We believe that when armed with the appropriate resources, Native peoples hold the capacity and ingenuity to ensure the sustainable, economic, spiritual and cultural well-being of their communities.

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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 longest standing 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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