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Improving Access to Funding for Indigenous Communities

For the first time, The Opportunity Project (TOP) recently focused its efforts solely on improving access to funding for indigenous communities, more than a quarter of whom live in poverty.

In partnership with the U.S. Economic Development Administration, TOP teams used data from the U.S. Census Bureau and other federal agencies and worked over the course of 12 weeks to come up with ways to funnel more capital and investment to Indigenous communities and improve their representation in federal datasets.

Each year, TOP collaborates closely with federal agencies and nongovernmental organizations to identify pressing challenges facing communities across the United States that can benefit from new, accessible data-driven tools.

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This TOP challenge was a timely one. According to a 2019 Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation survey, more than a quarter of American Indian and Alaska Natives live in poverty and almost a fifth do not have any type of checking or savings account.

TOP initiatives including this challenge will be presented at the Census Open Innovation Summit 2024, January 17-19.

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