About NDN Fund

As the investing and lending arm of NDN Collective, NDN Fund provides debt financing and capacity building services for large-scale resilient and regenerative projects and businesses across pre-development, startup, bridge, and expansion stages that dramatically scale up investment and shift all decision-making power to Indigenous peoples.

NDN Fund currently has two capital loan pools available for Tribal Nations, Tribal Enterprises and/or Corporations, Native nonprofits and organizations, and Native-owned resilient and regenerative businesses across all Indian Country (tribally based, rural, and urban)

• Our first loan pool, the SEEDING (Social Enterprise & Economic Development for Indigenous Growth) loan program capitalizes large-scale infrastructure projects that need more than $500,000 focusing on renewable energy, community development and housing, sustainable infrastructure, social enterprise, and regenerative agriculture that require more need large scale capital to launch or expand developed concepts or pre-development, construction, or bridge capital for emerging or developing concepts. Capital Loan Opportunity for Native Nations & Native Business Owners.
• Our second loan pool, the Relief & Resilience loan program provides small business loans less than $500,000 to Indigenous businesses and entrepreneurs so that they can move past the financial impacts of the pandemic including specialized technical assistance for some borrowers to remove barriers in accessing the capital. Pre-development, bridge, and operating loans are available.

NDN Fund’s mission is to deliver integrated capital solutions and capacity building development services to Tribal Nations, Indigenous changemakers, community developers, and enterprises. We are creating a paradigm shift in how society invests in economic development by grounding our investment strategy in Indigenous systems thinking, recognizing the interconnectedness of all things and our responsibilities to our homelands and each other. Our approach ensures a resilient and regenerative framework from start to finish, built around the principles listed below.

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