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Rural Economic Development – Less than 1% of philanthropy funding in all of America goes to Indian Country. Philanthropy has a responsibility to take a bigger leadership role in investing in these places.

If you think rural America gets marginalized in national policy discussions, imagine what it’s like trying to talk about Native American issues, says Nick Tilsen, the executive director of a community development corporation serving members of the Oglala Lakota Nation on the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota.

By Gabe Schwartzman

Full Story: http://www.dailyyonder.com/rural-voices-lot-allies-out-there/2015/09/01/7959

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