By Daniel Boyette Advanced space nuclear propulsion systems are critical to NASA’s Moon to Mars vision. On May 15, one of the individuals at the forefront of those future exploration efforts was honored for his contributions. Kurt Polzin, chief engineer for the Space Nuclear Propulsion Office at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, received the...
August 10, 2011 Perry Rosenstein (above) President of the Puffin Foundation, Ltd. presented the first ALBA/Puffin Award for Human Rights Activism to Judge Baltasar Garzón of Spain on May 14, 2011. Judge Garzón is a world-renowned hero to the human rights community, in large part because of his indictment and arrest warrant against Gen. Augusto Pinochet, the former...
First Nations Receives Grant to Support Indigenous-Led Environmental Justice Efforts LONGMONT, Colorado (March 17, 2020) – First Nations Development Institute (First Nations) has received a $220,000 grant from the Broad Reach Fund of the Maine Community Foundation. The funds will be used to support Native American-led efforts to combat abusive extractive industries...
First Nations Receives Transformative Gift from Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott LONGMONT, Colorado (July 30, 2020) – The board and staff of First Nations Development Institute (First Nations) are honored to announce the receipt of an $8 million transformative, unrestricted gift from novelist and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott. The gift was part of a $1.7 billion...
Funding from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative will go to supporting Native Youth education, mental health, and identity strengthening LONGMONT, Colorado (December 16, 2020) – The board and staff of First Nations Development Institute (First Nations) are honored to announce the receipt of a $1.6 million grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI). The funding will...
LONGMONT, Colorado (January 27, 2021) – First Nations Development Institute (First Nations) is pleased to announce that more funding will soon be directed to Indian Country to counter the disproportionate impact of coronavirus on Native communities. First Nations is among the 20 Native American Community Development Financial Institutions and Native-serving...
First Nations Receives Grant to Bolster Strategies to Educate, Advocate, and Capitalize Funding from The Schmidt Family Foundation/The 11th Hour Project to help advance Native communities LONGMONT, Colo. (February 10, 2021) – First Nations Development Institute (First Nations) is honored to announce the receipt of funding from The Schmidt Family Foundation’s The 11th...
LONGMONT, Colo. (February 17, 2021) – First Nations Development Institute (First Nations) is honored to announce the receipt of funding from the Target Foundation, which will be used over the next two years to advance research on the Native American wealth gap and to build the fundraising and communications capacity of Native-led nonprofits/tribal programs focused on...
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First Nations Named One of Four Recipients of Bank of America’s National Neighborhood Builders® Award LONGMONT, Colo. (July 15, 2021) – First Nations Development Institute (First Nations) announced today that the 40-year-old organization has been named one of Bank of America’s National Neighborhood Builders®. As a recipient of the award, First Nations received...