Brief Description: As tribes and Native communities seek to develop a strong foundation for economic development activities and strategies, they must also identify the array of available sources of funding, financing and/or customers/clients that will support the enterprises and projects that will ultimately implement portions of these strategies. The second installment in this 3-part training series will describe approaches that tribal business entities, small business owners, and entrepreneurs can use as borrowers to cultivate relationships with lenders and investors to support economic development.

Part 2:

• Reliable Capital and Collaboration: Cultivating Investor-Lender-Borrower Relationships to Support Economic Development

Participating Subject Matter Experts (SMEs)

Part 1 - Identifying and Combining Funding