A new ecosystem is emerging in Indian Country. Among this network is the NDN Collective, which is rapidly becoming the largest Native American philanthropy. Founded in 2018, in 30 months the group has raised $37 million and aims to grow to provide $50 million in grants a year. “That puts us as the largest funder of Indigenous people in the field,” notes cofounder Nick Tilsen in an interview for NPQ.
NDN’s vision for economic justice, Tilsen explains, builds on the group’s values and principles of the interconnectedness of all things, indigenous self-determination, and equity and justice for all people and the planet. Tilsen adds that the group seeks to realize those values through actions corresponding with the three meanings of the “D” in its name—defend, develop, and decolonize.
NPQ will be taking a short break from its usual publishing schedule. Today, you are receiving Steve Dubb’s last Economy Remix column of 2020, which looks at community economic rebuilding in Indian Country, a well-timed topic we think, just one day after the historic nomination of Representative Deb Haaland (D-NM, Pueblo of Laguna) as Interior Secretary, the first Native American ever nominated for a presidential cabinet position.
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