Committed to the financial well-being of Native communities
We're focused on working together with Native communities and tribal businesses to provide capital and financial services in order to help build a sustainable foundation now, and for many generations to come.
Invest Native is a $20 million philanthropic effort to support Native-led nonprofit organizations and the communities they serve in New Mexico, Arizona, Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Funding priorities include housing access and affordability, small business growth, financial health, and sustainability and climate resiliency.
Invest Native pillars
- Housing access and affordability – Counseling and education programs, housing and advocacy, new construction/rehabilitation/renovation, rental housing assistance, assistance for the homeless
- Small business growth – Small business assistance, including technical assistance, debt and equity capital, and grants to small businesses
- Financial health – Financial education and programs including individual development accounts and credit counseling
- Sustainability – Sustainable finance and clean technology innovation, strengthening local climate resiliency strategies, and advancing climate justice
Grant interest submissions for 2023 are closed for the year. The next window of opportunity for funding will open in early 2024. For more information, please email investnative@wellsfargo.com.
Since 2018, we have invested more than $50 million in national nonprofits throughout American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian communities. Through consultation with tribal members and leaders, we have funded grants in the following areas:
- Housing access and affordability
- Small business growth
- Financial health
- Sustainability
- Scholarships
For more than 65 years, Wells Fargo has been a proud supporter of Native American and Alaska Native communities, and we continue to be the leading provider of capital and financial services to tribes and tribal-owned enterprises.
Wells Fargo has banking relationships with 1 out of 3 federally recognized tribes in the U.S. We have committed $3.4 billion in credit and hold $4.1 billion in deposits for tribal governments and tribally owned enterprises nationally, banking more than 300 Native American and Alaska Native tribal entities in 25 states.
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Our bankers have extensive experience working with tribal governments, tribal-owned enterprises, and native-led non-profit organizations. To learn more, contact Dawson Her Many Horses, Managing Director & Head of Native American Banking, at: diversesegmentscommercialbanking@wellsfargo.com.
Wells Fargo launches $20 Million Invest Native initiative for Native American communities
Wells Fargo announces a $20 million commitment to advance economic opportunities in Native American communities working with Native-led organizations. The Invest Native initiative aims to address housing, small business, financial health, and sustainability among Native American communities in Arizona, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming. The program is designed as a grantmaking initiative — to support a more equitable and prosperous future for Native Americans.
Wells Fargo report reveals Indian Country's "Once-in-a-Seven-Generation Opportunity"
Wells Fargo collaborated with Boston Consulting Group to create our new report Indian Country’s Once-in-a-Seven Generation Opportunity: Building Economic Resiliency That Sticks that analyzes longstanding economic and social inequities facing Native American communities, their underlying resiliency, and what can be done to secure future economic resiliency through diversification, building capacity, leveraging capital, and forming strategic partnerships.
Program helps Native Americans buy a home, enhance financial acumen
Nika Saunders, a U.S. National Guardsman and mother of three, purchased her first home in Anchorage, Alaska, thanks to support from the Cook Inlet Lending Center and Wells Fargo.
Honoring and supporting tribal communities
Link to all Wells Fargo stories on Native American and Alaska Native communities.
