The Leech Lake Band Of Ojibwe received a $168,176 Block Grant award from the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (HHS ACF). The funding supports the Tribal Work Grants program (CFDA #93.594) for the period of July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2022. The Tribal Work Grants program allows eligible Indian Tribes and Alaska Native organizations to operate programs making work activities available and supporting job readiness, placement and retention for Native...
The Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe received a $336,352 Block Grant award from the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (HHS/ACF). The award period is July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2023 under the Tribal Work Grants program (CFDA #93.594). The Tribal Work Grants program aims to support job readiness, placement, and retention activities for Native Americans. With this funding, the Leech Lake Tribal Council will operate a program making work activities and...
The Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, a federally recognized American Indian tribe in Minnesota, was awarded a $168,176 Block Grant from the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families under the Tribal Work Grants program (CFDA 93.594). This federal grant enables the Leech Lake Tribal Council to develop and implement workforce development initiatives focused on improving job readiness, facilitating job placement, and promoting job retention for Native Americans...
This federal Block Grant award of $4,833,688.00 was provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families under the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CFDA 93.575) program. The award was made to the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, a federally recognized Native American tribe in Minnesota, to support a range of child care and early childhood education services over a period of 3 years from October 2024 to September 2027. The grant funding will...
Leech Lake Financial Services Inc. was awarded a $200,000 Project Grant from the Department of the Treasury's Community Development Financial Institutions Rapid Response Program (CDFI RRP, CFDA 21.024) on June 15, 2021. The grant is intended to support the ability of Community Development Financial Institutions to respond to the economic impacts of the coronavirus and will be completed by December 31, 2023. Specifically, the funding will allow Leech Lake Financial Services Inc. to provide...
This federal Project Grant award of $641,891.00 was provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service under the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (CFDA 10.567). The grant supports the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, a federally recognized Native American tribe, in operating food distribution sites and delivering culturally appropriate USDA food packages to low-income Native American households on or near the Leech Lake Reservation in Minnesota. The...
The Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe has been awarded a $471,548.44 Block Grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families under the Child Support Services program (CFDA 93.563). This one-year award, effective from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2025, will support the tribe's comprehensive child support services, including locating absent parents, establishing paternity, and obtaining child, spousal, and medical support orders. The program aims...
This $278,216 Project Grant awarded on September 26, 2024 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Housing Service under the Community Facilities Loans and Grants program (CFDA 10.766) will support infrastructure and essential community facility development for the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe in Minnesota. The grant recipient, Leech Lake Tribal College, Inc., is a tribally controlled 1994 Land Grant institution that provides higher education services focused on Native American culture,...
The Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe received a $1.567 million Block Grant award from the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (ACF) under the Child Support Services program (CFDA 93.563) for the period of October 1, 2022 through September 30, 2023. The funding will support the Leech Lake Tribal Council's child support enforcement activities. Specifically, the Tribal Council will enforce child and medical support obligations owed by absent parents, locate...
The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund has awarded a $296,000 Project Grant under the Native Initiatives program (CFDA 21.012) to Leech Lake Financial Services Inc., a tribally-owned non-profit organization. The grant funding will be used to provide technical assistance to build the organizational capacity of certified and emerging Native CDFIs to serve low-income and underserved Native American populations across the U.S. that lack...