With decades of experience, INDIGENOUS IMPACT CO. is honored to support disruptors
leaders
innovators
allies
CHANGEMAKERS
Mountain | Plains Regional Native CDFI Coalition
Since 2020, Indigenous Impact Co. has been providing strategic support to the Mountain | Plains Regional Native CDFI Coalition, a Coalition of nine Native CDFIs from South Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming. A regional coalition led primarily by Native women, they are fortifying a regional Indigenous Finance Industry, as a national model. One of 21 awardees of the Economic Development Administration's Build Back Better Regional Challenge, the Coalition just received a five-year, $45 million investment, the single largest investment into the Native CDFI industry since its founding in 1985. With this seed capital, they are launching a holistic, five-year strategy to reimagine and actualize capital systems that center relationship, reciprocity, and resilience.
Brookings Metro has launched a new case study series which analyzes how winning coalitions from the U.S. Economic Development Administration’s $1 billion Build Back Better Regional Challenge are meeting their goal of developing and strengthening regional industry clusters across the country.
Read the case study here
"Indigenous Impact Co. is vigilant about creating a culture in which people feel safe, seen, heard, and respected. Since they put time and effort into that, it allows people to fully show up and bring their whole selves to the conversation. In turn, a space is created for innovation, problem solving, and serving community.
Indigenous Impact Co. takes responsibility for finding the potential in people and processes, and has the courage to develop that potential in partnership."
- Lakota Vogel, Executive Director, Four Bands Community Fund and Member of the Mountain | Plains Regional Native CDFI Coalition
Connecting to family, community, and heritage in Eagle Butte, South Dakota
In this episode of Reimagine Rural, host Tony Pipa goes to Eagle Butte, South Dakota, anchor of the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation and Tribe. We hear how local business owners, tribal administration, and leaders from the Four Bands Community Fund are working to build credit, foster creativity, and center local voices in future development.
A History of Changemakers
Below are organizations we have had the honor to support:
Mountain | Plains Regional Native CDFI Coalition; Montana, South Dakota & Wyoming
Echoing Green Foundation, New York City, NY
First Peoples Fund, Rapid City, SD
Northwest Area Foundation, Minneapolis, MN
The Sioux Chef & NATIFS, Minneapolis, MN
Gratitude Railroad, Park City, UT
LANDBACK Campaign | NDN Collective, Rapid City, SD
Rasmuson Foundation, Anchorage, AK
Taala Fund, Taholah, WA
Arab Arts & Culture Fund, Beirut, Lebanon
American Indian Business Leaders, Billings, MT
Define American, Louisville, KY
Plenty Doors Community Fund, Crow Agency, MT
Ecole des Sables, Senegal
IDRS Inc., Sacramento, CA
Frank Hervey Cook Trust, Helena, MT
Lakota Youth Development, Rosebud, SD
Western Native Voice, Billings, MT
Western Sustainability Exchange, Livingston, MT
Yellow Bird Life Ways, Lame Deer, MT
Montana Native Vote, Billings, MT
Montana Nonprofit Association, Helena, MT
Hopa Mountain, Bozeman, MT
Cheyenne River Youth Project, Eagle Butte, SD
“Indigenous Impact Co. brings much needed consulting through an Indigenous lens. Their services of consulting Native-led organizations help implement Indigenous values, strategy, and capacity building to help insure those business develop appropriate and culturally relevant value systems and culture from within.”
- Sean Sherman, Founder The Sioux Chef / NATIFS.org
