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
The Value-Added Producer Grants program is geared towards helping the Independent Producers of Agricultural Commodities, Agriculture Producer Groups, Farmer and Rancher Cooperatives, and Majority-Controlled Producer-Based Business Ventures in developing techniques that would create marketing opportunities and establish business plans involving viable marketing opportunities that involve the production of bio-based products from agricultural commodities.
The Small Business Administration has established the Portable Assistance Program wherein they seek to provide grants to Small Business Development Lead Centers that provide services to small businesses in an effort to increase the success of small business establishments and their viability in certain communities where economic hardship is apparent and is attributable to the impact of a major disaster.
Millennials often get flak for being picky, narcissistic and fickle, especially when it comes to doing business. While unemployment struggles often reach more people in younger generations, these seven millennial entrepreneurs featured in the Huffington Post are too busy creating positive social impact, changing other people’s lives and theirs.