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Native Asset Building Assessment Initiative Listening Session. A listening session to provide your input on a new Native Asset Building Assessment Initiative. Welcome to Our Webinar. Keep Background Noise to a Minimum All participants have been muted Chat Function
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Native Asset Building Assessment InitiativeListening Session A listening session to provide your input on a new Native Asset Building Assessment Initiative
Welcome to Our Webinar • Keep Background Noise to a Minimum • All participants have been muted • Chat Function • Ask a Question in the ChatBox • Raise Your Hand to be Unmuted • Feedback Buttons • Yes or No • Too Fast or Too Slow • Laughter and Applause • Introductions/ Chat Test Question • What organization are you representing and where are you based?
Native Asset Building Assessment Initiative April 24, 2014, Native CDFI Network Webinar
Kim Pate NCN Board Member, Ex Officio ALC Director, CFED
Overview of Presentation • Background on the Native Asset Building Assessment Initiative • Why it is needed • Why the Northwest Area Foundation is supporting it • Feedback from Webinar Attendees
Background on the Native Asset Building Assessment • Native CDFIs and others are implementing asset-building strategies: • youth and adult matched savings accounts • financial education and coaching • access to capital • training and technical assistance for Native American entrepreneurs.
Background on the Native Asset Building Assessment • Assessment is designed to: • learn more about these efforts, • spotlight best practices, • map the programs, and • develop a shared framework. • An outcome will be a widely disseminated white paper for the assets field, Native and non-Native.
Why it is needed • Little discussion exists about: • the best way to promote unique asset-building approaches in Native communities; • the need for a framework for these approaches to Native asset-building; and • successful implementation strategies.
Why it is needed • To assist with strategic planning, making the policy case, and fundraising for Native asset building. • To promote awareness of best practices in Native asset building to help other programs start and expand. • To map out existing Native asset-building programs to help Native and non-Native programs collaborate and network more effectively.
Why the Northwest Area Foundation is supporting it • The NWAF has made a commitment that 40% of annual grant dollars are dedicated to Native-led organizations in its eight-state region. • Region: Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, and 75 Native Nations. • This builds on decades of NWAF investment in Native economic prosperity and poverty alleviation. • This will help the NWAF understand the opportunities, gaps, and how to positively influence asset building in the region.
Feedback from Webinar Attendees • How necessary is it to consider asset-building approaches that are unique to Native communities? • Not necessary at all • Somewhat necessary • Necessary • Very necessary • Absolutely critical Please complete the poll.
Feedback from Webinar Attendees • Why is it necessary to consider unique asset-building approaches in Native communities? Please type your response in the chat box or raise your hand to share your response.
Feedback from Webinar Attendees • What Native asset-building topics should the white paper cover? Please type your response in the chat box or raise your hand to share your response.
Feedback from Webinar Attendees • What are some of the most innovative Native asset-building activities happening today across Indian Country? Please type your response in the chat box or raise your hand to share your response.
2014 Asset Learning Conference • Title: Platforms for Prosperity • Date: September 17-19, 2014 • Site: Marriott Marquis Hotel, Washington, DC • Attendance: 1,200 expected • Call for Ideas disseminated in February • Website will be launched in April • Program planning throughout the Spring and Summer
2014 ALC Program • Mobile App and participant engagement through online and social media • Conference Plenary Sessions • Capacity Building Intensives • Concurrent Sessions • Platforms for Prosperity Contest • Interactive activities • Receptions • Co-located events • Capitol Hill Visits
Numerous Native Elements at ALC • Native Assets Assessment Roundtable • Capacity Building Intensive on how to partner with Native asset programs • Native experts on session panels, including sessions on children’s savings accounts, CDFIs, Credit Unions, etc. • Remarks from Tanya Fiddler, CFED Board member during the ALC Dinner and Awards Program • Ceremonial drumming to honor the conference and CFED’s 35th anniversary • NCN delegation on Capitol Hill Visits
More Information • www.assetsconference.org • Kim Pate, kim@cfed.org