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Accessing the Resources and Capital to Support Economic Development - Part 3 (Virtual Training Session)

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 third installment in this 3-part training series will explore the use of federal contracting to grow tribal enterprises and 8(a) businesses, including training on various types of federal contracts and some important considerations that tribal entities should be aware of as they seek out federal contracts.

Part 3:

  • Federal Contracting

Part 1 - Identifying and Combining Funding

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Accessing the Resources and Capital to Support Economic Development - Part 1 (Virtual Training Session)
Accessing the Resources and Capital to Support Economic Development - Part 1 (Virtual Training Session)

This session provides a non-exhaustive list of funding sources and the eligible uses and combinations of these sources as well as training on how to advance economic development through external borrowing/financing of activities (as opposed to purely grant-funded approaches) during the development and implementation of financing plans. 

Part 2 - Cultivating Investor-Lender-Borrower Relationships

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Accessing the Resources and Capital to Support Economic Development - Part 2 (Virtual Training Session)
Accessing the Resources and Capital to Support Economic Development - Part 2 (Virtual Training Session)

This session is the second installment in this 3-part training series and 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. 

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Housing as a Driver of Community Economic Development (In-Person Workshop)