The COVID-19 pandemic is having a profound impact on Native communities across the nation. As a national intermediary, Oweesta has had the privilege of supporting and witnessing many resilient, indigenous-led responses Native CDFIs are implementing that address their tribal communities immediate and impending needs in light of COVD-19. Please join us over the next several weeks as we provide a webinar series designed to highlight some of these responses and share tools and resources that can assist in your community response to this crisis.
Connecting with Your Community
Tuesday, April 7th at 1pm MT
Join Oweesta as we explore a few options for connecting virtually to your employees, co-workers, and community. This webinar will provide a tutorial on how to best utilize these platforms to meet your connection needs. We will showcase the Zoom, Google Hangouts, and Join.me platforms, while providing additional resources to explore beyond the webinar. Learn not only how these platforms work but how to support others in using them, as well as techniques to keep on-line meetings engaging!
For questions regarding the webinar, please contact Stephanie Cote at stephanie@oweesta.org.
Moving Beyond COVID-19: Resources and Support for Native Communities
Thursday, April 9th at 12pm MT
First Nations Oweesta and NDN Collective host an interactive webinar for Native Nations, businesses, entrepreneurs, artisans, and Native CDFIs to address the economic needs of our Indigenous communities and institutions during COVID19. We come together with other Native-led organizations, like ONABEN and Native Women Lead, to share resources for Native entities hit hard by this recent pandemic.
If interested in learning how to gain access to capital and technical assistance, please join us virtually on Thursday April 9 at 3:00pm ET. We’ll also leave time for Q &A and for you to share other resources and ideas with us since we are all partners in this effort to come out of this crisis even more resilient and self-determined.
Innovative CDFI Loan Products in Response to COVID-19
Thursday, April 16th at 1pm
Native CDFIs are innovative by nature. Learn from a panelist of Native CDFIs who are creatively confronting the economic and health challenges created by the COVID-19 crisis. Hear from pioneering Native CDFIs who are inventing new loan products to serve their community and discuss with other Natives CDFIs how they are managing their day-to-day challenges. Discover how Native CDFIs are deploying capital and evaluating risk, while walking with their community through this crisis.
For questions regarding the webinar, please contact Florence Ludka at florence@oweesta.org.