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Honoring Our Own People, Power & Philanthropy
Research
   
Articles & Presentations
Tribal Philanthropy – Revenues, Assets & Resources Certification
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Giving & Receiving in Indian Country
This interview with IRS Office of Indian Tribal Governments professionals makes clear the ways you can contribute your charitable donations to include Native Americans.
Mythbusting
There are many myths about Native American people and their Tribal Nations. One myth is that American Indian/Alaska Native Tribes recieve a lot of 'special' funding that is not available to everyone else in the United States from the federal government. ThreeHoops completed a survey of Federal Grants Notices in 2004 that found exactly the opposite: in fact Tribal Nations were not eligible to the apply for over 50% of Federal Grants Notices in some months and often were and are not eligible to apply for over 30% of the Federal Grants Notices otherwise made available to states, nonprofits, for profits or individuals by the federal government. Check out the Press Release on this topic below. If you'd like to see the actual Grants Notices reviewed links to them are provided.
First
Americans Often Last Americans for Federal Funding
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the ThreeHoops
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Federal Funding Information for Tribal Nations & Native American Nonprofits:
Tribal Nations Eligible, Grants Notices Archives 04
Tribal Nations Not Listed As Eligible, Grants Notices Archives
Where
are Native American people? In
every state the United States!
Approximately
380 of the over 560 federally recognized Tribal Nations
or Alaska Native entities exist within the 'lower 48'
United States . The density of Tribal Nations within
a state ranges from one to over 100 Tribal Nations per
state. If state recognized Tribes are included, there
are at least another 40 Tribes residing within an additional
five states.
Links
to Federally Recognized Tribal Nations
Links
to State Recognized Tribal Nations
Direct Research on Indian Country
For the best research about Tribal Nations and Native Americans we at ThreeHoops believe in 'going to the source.' We consider Tribal membership based organizations one of the best direct sources for verifiable information on Indian Country. We provide some examples of their research below.
Did
you know?
- Charitable
donations to Native American Tribal Nations, their
charitable programs or foundations, and NA community-based
nonprofits represent far less than 1/20th of one
percent (1%) of all grants made over $10,000 from
mainstream foundations nationwide. See the 2002 report
from Points
of Light Foundation.
- Many Tribal Nations gave an average of 38% of
all their grantmaking to support non-Native American
nonprofits in their surrounding communities, according
to the 2001
National Indian Gaming Association survey.
- Native
American people, and people of Native American descent
represent nearly 2.5% of the total population of the
United States, according Census Bureau Population
Estimates released in January, 2003. 2.7 million
people are Native American, and 4.3 million people
are Native American descent mixed with another race.
- The
poverty rate of Native American people remains the
highest of all peoples in the country.
- Here's an interesting article:
ThreeHoops LLC - Last update: Apr 12 06
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