Community Reinvestment Act

• Capital Decisions: Native America and the Community Reinvestment Act.
  The best guide for Native Americans working with the Community Reinvestment Act.

  First National Development Institute
  The Stores Building
  11917 Main Street
  Fredericksburg, VA 22408
  (450) 371-5615
  Email: fndi@firstnations.org

• Models of Community Lending: Neighborhood Revitalization Through Community/Lender Partnerships
  The National Community Reinvestment Coalition manual offers an essential guide to partnerships. You can also get information sheets and articles about the new CRA regulations from NCRC.

  NCRC
  733 15th Street NW, Suite 540
  Washington, DC 20005
  (202) 628-8866

• CodeTalk Federal Home Page
• Efficient Manufactured Housing
• HUD - ONAP Main Page
• NAHASDA According to NAIHC
• NAHASDA - Federal Homepage
• National American Indian Housing Council

• CFDA Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
• GrantsNet
• SCN: Funding Sources

• Assessment of American Indian Housing Needs
  This report may be obtained by writing to the HUD User - Policy Development and Research's Information Service.

  HUD User
  P.O. Box 6091
  Rockville, MD 20849

• Earth-Sheltered Houses

• Capitalization Strategies for Community-Based Non-profit Organizations is an excellent guide for non-profit fundraising.

  First Nations Development Institute
  The Stores Building
  112917 Main Street
  Fredericksburg, VA 22408
  (540) 371-56215
  E-mail: fndi@firstnations.org

• Guides on community development financial institutions, loan funds, and credit unions.

  The Woodstock Institute
  407 S. Dearborn, Suite 550
  Chicago, IL 60605
  (312) 427-8070

• Indian Business Owner's Guides put out by North Coast Small Business Development Center provide excellent guidance in business plan development, including feasibility, marketing studies, and accounting.

  NCSBDC
  779 9th Street
  Crescent City, CA 95531
  (707) 464-2168

• Microenterprise development guides and directories.

  The Aspen Institute
  1333 New Hampshire Avenue, NW, Suite 1070
  Washington, DC 20036.

• The Minority Business Development Agency serves as a national network of technical assistance resource providers. Contact MBDA at (202) 482-4713.

• The National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development offers a number of helpful publications.

  NCAIED
  953 E. Juanita Avenue
  Mesa, AZ 85204

• Native Power Summary:Small Business

• The Small Business Administration is the source of many helpful publications, administers grant and loan programs and operates regional small business development centers.

  SBA Office of Public Communications
  409 3rd Street, SW, Room 7600
  Washington, D.C. 20416
  (202) 205-6740