Pawnee Nation Uses Capital Stacking to Fund Needed Tribal Health Center
The Pawnee nation utilized an innovative way of funding to break the barriers found by rural low-income tribal communities to complete costly high demand fundamental projects. The health center will enhance local accessible treatment for the rural service area designated as medically underserved.
Health and Community Center Advances Native Hawaiian Health on Kealakehe Hawaiian Home Land
New Market Tax Credits were used to create the Hawai’i Island Community Health Center and Laʻi ʻŌpua Community Center on Kealakehe Hawaiian Home Lands. These facilities serve primarily low-income individuals and families and provides pu‘uhonua (area of safety and peace) for Hawaiian people. The center offers an array of programs and services to meet most every health, social, educational and recreational needs of surrounding communities.
Bad River Tribe Expands Tribal Health Center for Holistic Health Approach
The Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa is expanding their capacity to promote a healthy lifestyle for tribal members. The tribe is now continuing to address concerns from a needs assessment by advancing physical, mental, and spiritual health with an expansion to the wellness center according to the tribe’s architecture partner, DSGW Architecture.
The Lac Courte Oreilles Tribe is Looking to The Future with $44 Million Tribal Health Center
The Lac Courte Oreilles (LCO) Band of Lake Superior is advancing their capacity to take care of tribal members by building a holistic 64,421-square-foot modern health center. The tribe committed $7 million to the project and received a $5 million in a grant from the State of Wisconsin.
How the Rocky Boy Reservation is Advancing Community Health with Construction and Renovations of Tribal Health Center
The Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) awarded a $1 million grant through the American Rescue Plan to the Chippewa Cree Tribe of the Rocky Boy Reservation, Box Elder, Montana, for construction of the Rocky Boy Health Center.
“This toolkit shares the findings of NCAI’s “Building Tribal Economies” research and outreach initiative, which works to train the focus of Tribal Nations on the strategic, foundational considerations involved with building integrated and resilient tribal economies capable of supporting their communities and citizens today, tomorrow, and for generations to come.”