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.

"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

"Indigenous Impact Co. nurtures the humanity and heart of the groups it supports. Jael and Gerald have a special gift for warmly inviting people to bring their whole selves to conversations, deepen their relationships, and explore new ways of thinking, being, and working together towards a more just future. They are a joy to partner with, and expand your sense of what’s possible."

- Christianne Lind, Program Officer, Northwest Area Foundation