Why Native Small Businesses Matter and How to Grow Them
An NCAI Webinar Series
This webinar series hosted by the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) formally launches NCAI’s “Why Native Small Businesses Matter and How to Grow Them” video curriculum. NCAI designed this comprehensive series of three animated “explainer” videos to educate current and future tribal leaders, key decision-makers, citizens, other Indian Country stakeholders, and non-Native policymakers about the vital importance of Native-owned small businesses to the rebuilding of vibrant Native economies, and how tribal governments can best support the cultivation of a vibrant small business ecosystem in and around tribal lands.
Tuesday, January 23, 3:00 to 4:15 p.m. ET
WEBINAR #1 - TraditionalNative Economiesand the Critical Importance of Native Entrepreneurs
The first webinar in NCAI’s four-part series formally launches the “Why Native Small Businesses Matter” video
curriculum with a viewing of the three videos, followed by a robust discussion about traditional Native economies with two leading
experts on the subject.
REGISTER NOW
Thursday, January 25, 3:00 to 4:15 p.m. ET
Webinar #2: Understanding Your Native-Owned Small Business Ecosystem and How to Strengthen It
The second webinar in NCAI’s four-part series focuses on how Native nations should assess the current state of their small business development environments to identify and implement solutions that will strengthen the institutional, infrastructural, and resource systems that Native-owned small businesses need to flourish.
REGISTER NOW
Tuesday, January 30, 3:00 to 4:15 p.m. ET
Webinar #3: Why Native Small Businesses Matter and How to Grow Them: Effective Approaches
The third webinar in NCAI’s four-part series presents two leading approaches among Native nations for methodically developing a multifaceted and vibrant ecosystem capable of fostering Native-owned small business development and growth.
Thursday, February 1, 3:00 to 4:15 p.m. ET
Webinar #4: Forging Partnerships to Cultivate Native-Owned Small Businesses
The final webinar in NCAI’s four-part series focuses on the importance of tribalgovernments developing a robust constellation of partnerships with various non-governmental entities –such as Native community development financial institutions, tribal colleges and universities, Native business alliances and chambers of commerce, otherNative non-profit
organizations, and non-Native entities –to create a comprehensive system of supports for existing and aspiring Native entrepreneurs.
