December 26, 2018 General News
By Kevin Walker, President and CEO, Northwest Area Foundation Our mission compels us to keep learning, looking, and discovering ways to serve our priority communities. In May, the board and staff of the Northwest Area Foundation journeyed to the Spokane Indian...
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December 21, 2018 Financial Inclusion
Otis Zanders is the president and CEO of Ujamaa Place, a St. Paul, MN–based organization that serves African American men ages 18 to 30. These young men, referred to as “Ujamaa Men,” are re-emerging from the criminal justice system, one grounded in racial inequality...
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September 27, 2018 Financial Inclusion
Estimates indicate that more than two centuries will pass before African American households hold the same level of wealth that white households have today. In response to this daunting and persistent racial economic inequality, NWAF launched the African American...
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June 29, 2018 Financial Inclusion
The Scorecard helps you make the case for work that puts communities on a path to prosperity and expands economic opportunity. The Prosperity Now Scorecard gives easy access to comprehensive new data on income, employment, and other outcome measures that inform your...
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June 14, 2018 General News
Our commitment to tribal communities is intentional. Since 2012, we’ve remained committed to investing 40 percent of our annual grant dollars in support of Native-led organizations. From 2012 to 2016, we invested more than $28 million in Native-led organizations,...
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