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风河横财:联盟资助3600万美元. 格兰特
Out of 565 initial applications, only 22 made it to the final stage of consideration. 8月5日, the Department of Commerce announced just six organizations nationwide that were awarded funding; the second-largest 格兰特 awarded, 大约3600万美元, 要来风河保留地吗.
“这绝对是一件非常令人谦卑和兴奋的事情,” remarked WRDF Director of Business Development Erika Warren-Yarber. “这是给整个保留区的, and we got community input from the very beginning – and just wanted to help with the sustainability of our culture, 我们的食物, 我们的土地, 我们的水.”
“几十年, 太 many communities all over America have been overlooked or left behind without the resources and investments needed to compete,” U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo commented in a press release. “This investment in the tribal communities of Wyoming will help catalyze Indigenous-led eco-tourism, 农业, 医疗保健方面的努力, 创造就业机会，促进长期经济增长.”
尽管世界自然资源基金是主要申请者, Warren-Yarber解释, the projects the 格兰特 funding will go toward are ones laid out by its partner organizations, 包括肖肖尼人和阿拉帕霍人的渔猎, 风河就业团, 风河粮食主权项目, 乐天堂app, 部落水牛倡议, the Eastern Shoshone Tribe and the Northern Arapaho Tribe. It will also be working with the health care services of both tribes.
“WRDF, we’re just the vehicle for the funding,” Warren-Yarber said. “We just kind of identified other fantastic leaders and organizations … [and asked] ‘How do we launch them to the next level?’”
“It’s definitely something the reservation needs for economic development,部落鱼类和游戏总监Art Lawson说道. “这很重要，尤其是对我们的年轻人来说.” Lawson was one the key players in helping craft some of the eco-tourism aspects of the application; with its share of the 格兰特 funds, Tribal Fish and Game hopes to move into its own facility – “for the first time in 40 years,” Lawson pointed out – with room to sell fishing licenses and store search and rescue equipment, 改造蚊子公园的小屋, identify trailheads and areas that are good locations for other cabins, 并继续发展青年项目.
“我们想让他们到户外去, get them addicted to the outdoors instead of substance abuse,劳森在谈到青少年项目的重要性时说. “If we want to make that big change for our youth, we need something big.”
Tribal Fish and Game will also be collaborating with CWC on a trail-building effort; CWC will use some of its share of the 格兰特 funds to purchase additional trail-building equipment and provide financial assistance to students in order to expand its existing trail-building program. “Our trail-building students will be working with Tribal Fish and Game to build those trails that they have identified as having significant potential for economic impact,CWC负责学术事务的副主席杨志强博士解释道. 凯西井.
The college will also be putting its share of the funds toward growing its programs and trainings as well as student services. Some of that funding will go toward five years’ worth of salaries for six new positions at the school: A new nursing instructor, 一位新的烹饪艺术指导老师, 另一位劳动力培训师, 紧急医疗技术员(EMT)讲师, 高中同等学历培训师, 还是一位学生成功教练.
“CWC’s part of this [格兰特] provides significant financial assistance for need in the form of scholarships,Wells补充道. 经常, 她指出, finances can be a major barrier for students; even for students who can afford CWC right now, additional financial assistance can help make it possible for them to find child care, 运输, and other factors that Wells said the college has found to be key determinants of student success.
“即使这笔拨款没有获得, those partnerships and the relationships that came out of these conversations … was really just amazing,威尔斯评论道. “The partnerships that were created and the planning were invaluable.”
One of the 目标 of the 格兰特 application projects is to eventually move toward the reservation having its own ambulance and ambulance barn, 韦尔斯解释道，并安排了急救人员. 为了实现这个目标, multiple organizations need to be involved; health care organizations, 当然, 还需要一个像化学武器公约这样的机构来培训急救人员.
“With the reservation being part of CWC’s service area, 当他们的劳动力需求没有得到满足时, 这是学院关心的问题, 太,威尔斯解释道.
The Recompete 格兰特 isn’t up-front funding, but a reimbursement 格兰特. That’s why it was important to the application that every partner organization have a detailed plan with funding lined out for all of its projects, Warren-Yarber noted; the 格兰特 doesn’t pay for things directly. 而, 每个组织自己支付项目费用, 仔细记录其费用和进度, and submits its receipts and records for reimbursement.
世界资源论坛是其中一个伙伴组织, there certainly was financial expertise to bring to bear on the application. 其他合作伙伴带来了其他技能, 目标, 把计划摆到桌子上, 创造一个长远的影响, reservation-wide plan that hopes to develop multiple areas of the local economy.
“The Recompete program isn’t just an investment in American jobs or American workers, it’s an investment in communities that will allow local economies to grow and Americans to pursue quality careers in the places they call home,雷蒙多说.
“通过与当地社区的合作, “再竞争”计划将使其具有针对性, 社区主导的投资，以减少失业,” U.S. Assistant Secretary for Economic Development Alejandra Y. 卡斯蒂略在新闻发布会上评论道. “The Recompete awardees are bringing together a wide range of partners to develop integrated approaches to support Americans in accessing good jobs.”
“When you work together and meet the needs of everyone involved, that is a successful partnership … We both need to be successful to really boost that community environment,威尔斯说. “Learning how to navigate these partnerships and sustain them is important work that I hope will continue beyond this 格兰特.”
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