From joanna at oweesta.org Wed Mar 18 12:56:08 2009 From: joanna at oweesta.org (Joanna Donohoe) Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:56:08 -0600 Subject: [NFEC Update] Native Financial Education Coalition Policy Briefing - Save the Date - April 29, 2008 at 9:30 am Message-ID: <82182B01DBD600448F4C7D2631BA1BFE636EE3@SERVER1.fnoc.internal> SAVE THE DATE! Please join us for the Native Financial Education Coalition's 5th Annual Policy Briefing Wednesday, April 29, 2009 9:30 am Senate Indian Affairs Committee Hearing Room, 628 Dirksen, Washington, D.C. This event brings together practitioners, advocates and policymakers to collaborate on ways to expand financial education and asset building opportunities in historically underserved American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian communities. Held annually to commemorate Financial Literacy Month, this year's briefing presents a timely opportunity to discuss policies that will help to prepare Native consumers to face today's economic times. At the briefing NFEC will release its specific recommendations for federal, state, and tribal policymakers to expand financial education and asset building opportunities for Native people living both on and off-reservation. This briefing is geared toward legislative and executive branch staff on the federal, state, and tribal levels as well as representatives from national Native organizations and other financial education providers. Please forward to all who may be interested! For more information, contact Joanna Donohoe at Joanna at oweesta.org. Watch your email in early April for further information, including an agenda and list of speakers! Sponsored By: -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/nfec_lists.nfec.info/attachments/20090318/7522f25f/attachment-0001.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Please visit http://ournativecircle.org/node/493 for the one-page summary and go to www.indiancountryworks.org , the special NCAI stimulus website, for ongoing updates on the stimulus affecting Native communities. Jaci Ree Manager, Financial Education and Asset Building Oweesta Corporation 910 5th Street, Suite 101 Rapid City, SD 57701 (605) 430-4606 cell (605) 342 -3770 office (605) 342-3771 fax jaci at oweesta.org www.oweesta.org www.nfec.info www.ournativecircle.org "Developing Native Assets ~ Building Native Communities" -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/nfec_lists.nfec.info/attachments/20090316/71de62e1/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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QUALIFICATIONS: Bachelors degree in business or related field and five years experience in management OR an equivalent combination of education and experience. Experience in community development is preferred. TO APPLY: Please submit a cover letter and resume to the Wind River Development Fund, P.O. Box 661, Fort Washakie, WY 82514 or email to lwagner at wrdf.org . For more information contact Lisa Wagner at 307-335-7330 or visit our website at www.wrdf.org for a detailed job description. Position open until filled. WRDF is an equal opportunity lender and employer -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This training is being offered as part of the technical assistance services to the Santo Domingo Tribe through the Native Financial Skills Initiative, which is a three-day instructor training and certification program to help Native organizations establish and sustain financial education programs in their communities. May 5th - 7th, 2009 Amerind Risk Management Corporation 502 Cedar Drive Santa Ana Pueblo, NM $25 per person The three day training will address: * An introduction to the Building Native Communities: Financial Skills for Families curriculum * Effective training techniques and resources * Financial education program development planning Upon completion of the training, participants will be prepared to successfully pass the Building Native Communities certification exam to become certified financial education trainers. There will be a cost of $25 per person to attend the training and participants are responsible for their own travel costs. 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The CDFI Fund will be re-opening its 2009 CDFI Program and Native American CDFI Assistance (NACA) Program to enable additional applicants to apply. CDFI will also be offering current applicants the opportunity to request larger awards. Applicants that applied under the initial FY 2009 award rounds will have the opportunity to increase the amounts they requested to as much as $2 million under the CDFI Program and $750,000 under the NACA Program. Further, the Recovery Act included a waiver of the program's matching funds requirement. CLICK HERE for more information. There are two ways to join the conversation. The first is audio-only by call-in; the second incorporates both audio and web presentation by calling in and logging on. AUDIO: The first is simply by calling the teleconference number and listening to the audio just as any other teleconference. To join the audio portion of this meeting, please dial (866) 379-3045 and reference conference ID 91700910. The call will be operator-assisted, meaning that someone will take your name and affiliation when you call in and the operator will also manage questions from those on the phone during the Question & Answer period. WEB MEETING: The second way is to also join the web portion of the meeting. First, please join the audio portion of the meeting. Next, follow the instructions below to log on. This will allow you to be on the phone listening to the presentation at the same time you see the presentation on your computer. If you join the web portion of this meeting, you will be able to type in your questions. You will still need to call-in using the phone number and ID above. Then to join the web meeting, please follow these steps: 1. Click on the following link: Join the meeting . 2. Microsoft LiveMeeting will prompt you to download the LiveMeeting client - please click ok and run. 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April 21st - 23rd, 2009 Westmark 720 5th Avenue Anchorage, AK $25 per person The three day training will address: * An introduction to the Building Native Communities: Financial Skills for Families curriculum * Effective training techniques and resources * Financial education program development planning Upon completion of the training, participants will be prepared to successfully pass the Building Native Communities certification exam to become certified financial education trainers. There will be a cost of $25 per person to attend the training and participants are responsible for their own travel costs. Applicants must agree to send at least two and up to four participants. For more information, contact Jaci Ree with Oweesta at Jaci at oweesta.org or (605) 342-3770. Applications are available by clicking the link below and must be submitted to Adrianne Brave Heart by email at Adrianne at oweesta.org or by fax at (605) 342-3771. 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