Dakotas America, LLC
Sioux Falls
First Nations Oweesta Corporation
Rapid City
Four Bands Community Fund, Inc.
Eagle Butte
Grow South Dakota
Sisseton
InterTribal Bison Cooperative
Rapid City
Lakota Fund, The
Kyle
Mazaska Owecaso Otipi Financial, Inc
Pine Ridge
Oglala Sioux Tribe
Pine Ridge
Oti Kaga, Inc.
Eagle Butte
Sisseton Wahpeton Sioux Tribe
Agency Village
South Dakota Rural Enterprise, Inc.
Sioux Falls SD
South Eastern Development Foundation
Sioux Falls
Teton Coalition, Inc.
Rapid City
The Harvest Initiative, Inc
Fort Thompson
The Sicangu Fund
Mission
In keeping with this mission, the National Institute of Food and Agriculture has recently established the Common Bean Productivity Research for Global Food Security Competitive Grants Program in an attempt to develop approaches and methods that can efficiently address the various challenges facing common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) production among small holder producers in food insecure countries.
The Small Business Administration has established the Loan Guarantees Program wherein they aim to be able to provide guaranteed loans to small business establishments which are not capable of acquiring financing from a private credit marketplace but greatly manifests the ability to repay funds in a timely manner.
Youths in the Middle East deal with the world’s social problems such as high youth unemployment rates. As a solution, some are creating new businesses with a social purpose, such as tackling environmental issues, illiteracy or health, while also spurring job creation.