Vision 2035

Announcing the Tipi Raisers' Vision 2035 and the Social Impact Investment Strategy

The Tipi Raisers invites you to join us in thinking big! For over a year we have been hard at work with a top-tier team of investment specialists and are excited to launch this pioneering approach to wealth management over the next ten years. By engaging this strategy, you'll have the peace of mind that comes from both growing your investments while contributing to transformative solutions aimed at ending generations of poverty, addiction, violence, and marginalization on the reservations we support!

Vision 2035

By 2035, our goal is for each of the programs below to evolve into sustainable micro-economies led by tribal members, catalyzing profound transformation within the Native communities we support:

Housing: Create a tiny home construction company run by tribal members to provide housing on multiple reservations.
Agriculture: Train, provide materials for, build and help sustain both residential and commercial farms across multiple reservations.
Bison: Sustain a bison herd of at least 100 head to provide food, a sustainable source of income and cultural connections to this former life source for Indigenous peoples.
Arts and Crafts: Establish a thriving art and craft outlet for tribal artists to sell their wares at a fair price around the world.
Horses: Repopulate a horse herd descending from the Lakota People and currently almost hidden in North and South Dakota. Fund tribal youth horsemen and women who will raise, train, and sell them.
Cultural Education: Establish a speakers and training consortium whereby tribal members are able to earn fair wages presenting at schools and businesses around the world to share their culture and history.
Retreat and Education Center: Establish a retreat center where tribal members can visit in order to receive mental health support, parent education, skills and job training and sell their arts and crafts. When not in use by our Native relatives, this center could be used as an investment property rented to out of town travelers.

Transformational change is needed on the reservations we serve. And, while we hit our 15 year milestone in April 2025, we are laser-focused on our 25th anniversary! Over the next ten years we will leverage the Social Impact Investment Strategy in order to provide the wrap-around support, training, employment and seed money needed to grow programs outlined below.

Our current budget is just a fraction of what’s needed to fully realize this vision, but we are committed to bridging that gap. With determination and your support, we know we can reach this goal, ensuring the outcomes we all know are possible for our relatives on tribal lands become a reality.

What is the Tipi Raisers Social Impact Investment Strategy?

The Social Impact Investment Strategy (SIIS) is a unique investment opportunity aimed at fundamentally transforming conditions of poverty and the impacts of generational trauma in the Native communities we serve, while fostering reconciliation and healing between Native and non-Native cultures. The SIIS represents a paradigm shift in nonprofit fundraising. This strategy is ideal for those looking to diversify their investment portfolio and enhance ROI while supporting the Tipi Raisers in creating long-term sustainability and greater impact within the Native communities we serve.

Since 2023 we have worked diligently to vet world-class partners in the field of financial planning and are proud to offer this option to our donors in collaboration with reputable partners in the financial management field. After countless hours of of planning and various iterations of the strategy, we are excited to finally have the pieces in place to begin to establish the initial five-million-dollar equity fund that will provide a return on investment to those financing the fund and will be overseen and managed by the team at Avidian Wealth Solutions and T.O.S. Advisors.

Ultimately, the fund will be a win/win/win; a win for those of you reaping returns while investing in a socially responsible way, a win for the Tipi Raisers as our programs will finally be adequately funded, and the biggest win of all will be for our Native relatives who will gain the skills and resources needed to create sustainable livelihoods that align with their lifeways and ripple out into their communities.

Why Invest in Tipi Raisers?

With steadfast commitment, the Tipi Raisers has fostered enduring partnerships within Native communities, collaboratively developing impactful programs aimed at empowering and uplifting a resilient People who have endured historical and ongoing challenges of genocide and dispossession.

Through our 15 year journey together, our Indigenous partners have shown remarkable fortitude, trust, and determination in working with us to achieve transformative outcomes where others have faltered, including many failed nonprofits, the U.S. government and religious institutions.

It is time to move out of outdated and failed systems and structures that many of us have accepted and, in some cases, created and depended on.

Why Now?

This strategy has been long overdue! Our current funding model is solely reliant on grants and donations as we hold firm to the Indigenous value of reciprocity and refrain from the practice of charging for our events, services and opportunities. (Learn more about our Reciprocity Model HERE). We have known for some time that this model isn't enough.

And now, with a projected $300 billion reduction in federal funding for nonprofits*, competition for private foundation and individual donor support will become increasingly intense. Coupled with the current administration’s policies threatening critical services for Native communities, we must aggressively pursue innovative funding alternatives to ensure our organization's sustainability and the continued delivery of essential programs.

"For the sake of future generations, we must act now—working alongside our tribal families and community to provide what the U.S. government and others have not!" - Dave Ventimiglia | Executive Director

To learn more call Dave at 720-412-3335
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