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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Check out the interview our CFO, Florence Ludka, as well as the CEO of Native American Bank, Thomas Ogaard both did with Colorado Public Radio about the barriers and economic troubles indigenous peoples historically have and continue to face.
www.cpr.org/show-segment/historic-barriers-to-banking-mean-additional-economic-challenges-in-indi...
Historic Barriers To Banking Mean Additional Economic Challenges In Indigenous Communities
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The novel coronavirus disease continues to affect Colorado residents, families, businesses, and schools. CPR News is committed to giving you the latest, unbiased, fact-based information on the radio, online and on social media.Social Venture Circle is hosting an interactive webinar led by Nikki Love, NDN Collective, and Chrystel Cornelius , First Nations Oweesta Corporation on how to bring Native communities out of relief and into recovery.
First Nations Oweesta Corporation and NDN Collective, the only national Native-led financial intermediaries in Indian Country, will share updated industry data on how the pandemic is affecting Native businesses and the institutions serving them, as well as their joint effort to support Native CDFIs who are the frontline defenders and anchors for capital and development in tribal economies. These partners will further share what the future of investment can look like to bring Native communities out of relief and into recovery.
In partnership with the American Sustainable Business Council, Intentional Media, JumpScale, and Opportunity Collaboration.
Register here:
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RiOF3cTcTXuYYJd2xiyG6A
Be sure to register for our COVID Webinars Part 2: Self Care by 1pm MST on Thursday May 21st. For registration and more information, visit the link below:
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COVID-19 Webinar Series 2: Self-Care
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Join Oweesta as we provide an opportunity to pause, connect and share strategies on how to achieve a new work and home balance during these unprecedented times. Our day to day routines have been forced into an altered reality of work, home and community obligations. As a result, we may be fee...Be sure to check out Oweesta's official COVID-19 response, as well as our new COVID-19 Resources page.
Our response can be found here:
mailchi.mp/oweesta/oweesta-covid-19-response
And to view our new webpage, visit:
www.oweesta.org/covid-19
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Oweesta is providing and continuum of COVID-19 webinar services to address the everchanging landscape in assessing and modifying our operations in light of this epidemic. If you have an idea for a future webinar that you would like to see us do, feel free to contact us and we will see about making i...Don't forget to register for our Batten Down the Hatches: Loan Restructuring webinar before 1pm MST tomorrow, Wednesday the 13th!
For more information and a link to registration, follow the link below:
mailchi.mp/oweesta/covid-19webinarseriespart2-2635042
COVID-19 Webinar Series 2: Batten Down the Hatches
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Join Team Oweesta and a panel of Native CDFI practitioners as we discuss best practices for portfolio management amid the Covid-19 pandemic. This webinar will focus on restructuring our loan portfolios in order to protect our assets and help our loan clients who are unable to meet their loan ...–
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Today at 1:30pm ET #NEXTEconomyLIVE: Native Financial First Responders: From Relief to Recovery featuring Chrystel Cornelius @Oweesta and Nikki Love @ndncollective. Join us! https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RiOF3cTcTXuYYJd2xiyG6A
Native American Bank, based in Denver, has assisted businesses in applying for Paycheck Protection Program funds, primarily businesses owned by Native entities around the US. Oweesta is a CO nonprofit with the mission of developing financial assets in Native communities.
What does that mean during a pandemic? On @ColoradoMatters today, we talk with Thomas Ogaard of @NABNA2001 and Florence Ludka of @Oweesta, who is Ojibwe.
Be sure to register for our COVID Webinars Part 2: Self Care by 1pm MST on Thursday May 21st. For registration and more information, visit the link below:
https://mailchi.mp/oweesta/covid-19webinarseriespart2-2635054
Be sure to check out Oweesta's official COVID-19 response, as well as our new COVID-19 Resources page.
Our response can be found here:
https://mailchi.mp/oweesta/oweesta-covid-19-response
And to view our new webpage, visit:
http://www.oweesta.org/covid-19
Don't forget to register for our Batten Down the Hatches: Loan Restructuring webinar before 1pm MST tomorrow, Wednesday the 13th!
For more information and a link to registration, follow the link below:
https://mailchi.mp/oweesta/covid-19webinarseriespart2-2635042
Announcing the release of our new Building Native Communities: Financial Empowerment for Teens & Young Adults education curriculum!
For more information click here:
https://mailchi.mp/oweesta/bnc-training-january-2634997
Or visit our Youth BNC Toolkit webpage here:
https://www.oweesta.org/native-cdfi-resources/building-native-communities-toolkit/
Here is a great article by http://www.naacp.org highlighting some of the things we, and many others, are calling upon congress to enact amid COVID-19 relief related actions.
https://www.naacp.org/latest/naacp-minority-financial-institutions-call-equity-congressional-response-covid-19/
CONTACT US
First Nations 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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