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>> Back to November 2023 Issue<\/a><\/div>\n
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Native Entrepreneurs, Enterprises and Intermediaries Overcome Systemic Barriers to Expand Capital Access through Creative Finance<\/span><\/i><\/h2>\n
Wolakota Buffalo Range\u2014World\u2019s Largest Indigenous-Managed Buffalo Herd of 1,000 in South Dakota<\/h5>\n

\"Indigenizing<\/a>While entrepreneurship and economic creativity are abundant in Native economies, Indian Country has been chronically underfunded by both investors and philanthropy due to economic invisibilizing and other systemic factors. Increasingly, Native entrepreneurs, enterprises, and intermediaries are finding investment success through catalytic capital, bridging major gaps in capital access through singular strategies.<\/span><\/p>\n

Drawing from interviews with 22 practitioners comprising philanthropic investors, private investors, Native intermediaries, and Native entrepreneurs, as well as desk research and participation in Indigenous-led finance convenings,\u00a0<\/span>Indigenizing Catalytic Capital: How to Get to Catalytic Capital +<\/i><\/b><\/a>\u00a0presents new research that demonstrates how catalytic capital in Indian Country enables long-term, culturally-aligned success. This occurs when investments shift power through Native leadership, provide ample flexibility and opportunity for renegotiation, and operate at the pace of relationship.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The paper, written by\u00a0<\/span>Kate R. Finn<\/b>,\u00a0<\/span>Melanie Matteliano<\/b>,\u00a0<\/span>Jennifer Astone<\/b> and\u00a0<\/span>David LeZaks<\/b>, also conceptualizes \u201c<\/span>Catalytic Capital +<\/b>\u201d as the additional factors and approaches to creative finance in Indian Country which makes capital truly catalytic for Native entrepreneurs. This includes commitment to consistent and long-term capital delivery, integrated technical assistance, right relationship in investment, and coupling grant capital with investment capital as part of an integrated capital stack.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the paper: <\/span>\u201cA major finding of this research is that activating integrated capital mechanisms and catalytic capital in Indian Country has the most power to ignite creative, long-term enterprise visions. And, if done well, activating catalytic capital will spur new approaches to capital delivery in Indian Country that center Indigenous solutions. Capital then becomes an input to activate Native founders\u2019 visions, rather than driving their decision-making.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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