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Giving Staying Power to Solar Power

Kawerak, Inc. in Nome, Alaska, is a tribally owned and operated nonprofit consortium representing 20 communities in the Bering Strait region. To provide social, educational, economic, and other services to Native people in the region, Kawerak is creating future job opportunities for its youth by teaching them about renewable energy initiatives and advancing its agricultural operation at Pilgrim Hot Springs to address food insecurity.

A Blackfeet Woman Builds TPMOCS From Heart and Sole

As a hard-working IP lawyer for Google, Maria Running Fisher Jones is creating some big legal shoes to fill someday. But it’s the little shoes that really fuel the Blackfeet Native’s passion. Running Fisher Jones invested $25,000 of her own money to launch TPMOCS ― an all-Native business that creates handmade moccasins for infants and toddlers ― for the sole purpose of creating economic opportunity for her impoverished Tribe.

Ke Kula ‘o Pi’ilani: A One-of-a-Kind Hawaiian Immersion School

On the island of Maui, Hawaiʹi, there exists a school like no other: Ke Kula ‘o Pi’ilani, the only private, independent, and nonprofit Hawaiian language and culture immersion school in the world. It is surrounded by the rising, lush-green cliffs of the ‘Īao Valley, and a powerful river flows through the island to the sea. It is the perfect setting for a curriculum focused on the four themes of fresh water, heavens, land, and ocean.
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