The Learning/Action Lab for Community Wealth Building is a co-learning and co-creation collaboration spearheaded by The Democracy Collaborative and supported by the Northwest Area Foundation, working with Native American communities to develop effective strategies that build and retain wealth by fostering ownership, increasing access to local assets, and anchoring jobs locally...​(Read More)

Native American Youth and Family Center (NAYA) in Portland, OR, is creating a holding company that will oversee their existing for-profit social ventures, helping them move toward creating an integrated network of employee-owned green businesses in their community...
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Little Earth of United Tribes in Minneapolis, MN, a Native-preference low-income housing community, is developing plans for enterprises that will foster economic growth, provide employment in their community, and create income streams for the nonprofit parent organization. Their first effort was a community-owned food truck specializing in indigenous...​(Read More) 

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​​Spokane Tribal Enterprises in Wellpinit, WA has plans to transition a tribally owned Trading Post to cooperative ownership, as a way to revitalize the business and provide healthy, affordable food as well as a community gathering place on the reservation... (Read More) 

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Native American Natural Foods on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota is a Native-owned all-natural buffalo meat snacks company that is expanding sales rapidly across the nation and have transitioned to employee ownership. They are working towards returning buffalo to Indian communities on the Great Plains and hope to support the formation of a producer cooperative in... (Read More)  

Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation, located on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, is building a “Regenerative Community” designed to be a net zero community, producing all the energy it uses.  As construction proceeds there, Thunder Valley plans to create its own social enterprise to manage the process and create jobs for Native Americans... (Read More)