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REPORTS AND MEDIA - media coverage
The future looks bright at the 2nd annual Entrepreneurship Fair (full story PDF)
Four Bands Community fund receives national award for excellence (full story PDF)- Four Bands was honored for outstanding work as a Native community development financial institution at the second annual Native CDFI Award Ceremony in Miami, FL. Tanya Fiddler, executive director of Four Bands, received the Visionary Leader Award for Outstanding Achievement for her work on the Cheyenne River Reservation. Four Bands Community Fund Wins $100,000 Great Strides Award from Northwest Area Foundation (full story PDF)- The Northwest Area Foundation presented Four Bands Community Fund one of its four $100,000 Great Strides Awards for 2008. The award recognizes the "innovative strides communites have taken to reduce poverty for the long term." Click here to read about other Great Strides Award winners. SD Community Foundation awards $5,000 to Four Bands Community Fund, Inc. Four Bands is honored to have opportunities to share our story with the public through radio, newspaper, and television coverage. In December 2006, we were the feature of a story for National Public Radio's Market Place. A copy of the text from the story is included. Also check out stories from the Argus Leader, the Eagle Butte News and more. “Starting a business can be tremendously challenging under any circumstances. Doing it where there's deep poverty and a lack of know-how is much harder. On Indian reservations the need for that extra push is shaping a new generation of business startup programs. Steve Tripoli at the Marketplace Entrepreneurship Desk takes us to one such program on a reservation in South Dakota.” Excerpt from National Public Radio December 21, 2006 story broadcast across the country. Moreau-Grand Electric Cooperative article - Tanya Fiddler and Four Bands Community Fund appeared in all 31 versions of the cooperative magazine in June, 2007. 112,419 copies were mailed to electric cooperative member in all counties of South Dakota, plus co-op members in eleven counties in western Minnesota. Latest Press Release Argus Leader - May 19, 2007 NPR Marketplace - December 21, 2006 |
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