Four Bands Community Fund
11 Grants from 2004 - 2024
Grants received
Bush Prize: Native Nations celebrates organizations that are highly valued within their communities and have a track record of successful community problem solving. The 2024 Bush Prize: Native Nations winners are Lakota Nation Invitational and Minnesota Indian Women's Sexual Assault Coalition. Each of these organizations will receive a flexible grant that can be used to build reserves, test a big idea or for anything else that would best support the organization's ongoing good work. The organizations selected as finalists are Montessori American Indian Childcare Center, American Indian Community Housing Organization and Turtle Mountain Research Group. Each of these organizations will receive a $10,000 grant. Bush Prize: Native Nations winners and finalists were identified and selected by a community selection panel through a partnership with our community grant partner, the Good Relatives Collaborative.
Paskho, a Black-owned sustainable clothing brand in partnership with Four Bands Community Fund, will launch Awaremade, a cooperative governing structure overseeing the Oyate Pod, and the growth of additional sewing Pods on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation in Eagle Butte, SD. Awaremade will oversee the development of wrap-around support services, training and profit-sharing structures with the makers (employees of the Oyate Pod).
A grant to Four Bands Community Fund to support the Mountain | Plains Regional Native Community Development Financial Institution Coalition as they work together to build regional clusters of partners that are working towards systems change addressing the racial wealth gap in Native communities.
A 10-year program-related investment to support Native-led businesses and Native people in Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and the 23 Native nations that share the same geography
Support for work related to a program-related investment intended to support Native-led businesses and Native people in Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and the 23 Native nations that share the same geography
To be a leader and learner as a member of Community Creativity Cohort 2, a 3-year participant-led capacity building effort to support organizations led by and serving people of color and Indigenous people, rural communities, and smaller cities and towns
Diamond sponsorship of the South Dakota Indian Business Conference
Four Bands Community Fund, of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, will lead a reservation-wide effort to develop and implement a comprehensive workforce development program. Using a combined place- and sector-based approach, Four Bands will provide training opportunities to increase the capacity of individuals to gain meaningful employment while supporting businesses to build their capacity to effectively hire and retain qualified employees.
In recognition of winning a 2013 Bush Prize for Community Innovation, this grant will advance this organization's charitable mission
For staff and consultant expenses involved in improving the efficiency and effectiveness of services provided by the agency
To support the EMPOWERING YOUTH project