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Training & Technical
Assistance Center

About the Center

The ANA Training and Technical Assistance (T/TA) Center is a resource of the Administration for Native Americans. ANA's vision: Native Communities are Thriving!

Helping Native communities thrive since 1974

Established in 1974 through the Native American Programs Act (NAPA), the Administration for Native Americans (ANA) serves all Native Americans, including federally recognized tribes, American Indian and Alaska Native organizations, Native Hawaiian organizations and Native populations throughout the Pacific Basin (including American Samoa, Guam, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands).

ANA promotes self-sufficiency for Native Americans by providing discretionary grant funding for community based projects, and training and technical assistance to eligible tribes and native organizations.

What the Center does

The Center works to strengthen the capacity of Native organizations to develop, apply for, and manage community-based projects that increase self-sufficiency and achieve ANA’s vision that “Native Communities are Thriving.”

Through our partnership with the Administration for Native Americans, we provide comprehensive training and technical assistance designed to strengthen community-led initiatives. Our services help eligible organizations successfully navigate the ANA grant application process and equip current grantees with the tools and guidance needed to effectively manage and sustain their projects. Our technical assistance covers a range of services: from trainings to informational webinars to one-on-one support, we serve you at all stages of the funding process.

Our support focuses on helping organizations successfully apply for, implement, and manage Administration for Native Americans (ANA) grants. We do not provide assistance for other grant opportunities outside of ANA.

We are committed to empowering communities by building capacity, fostering self-sufficiency, and supporting long-term success.

ANA philosophy

We believe community members are at the heart of lasting, positive change. ANA’s philosophy of native self-sufficiency is based on the following core beliefs:

  • A native community is self-sufficient when it can generate and control the resources necessary to meet its social and economic goals and the needs of its members.
  • The responsibility for achieving self-sufficiency resides with native governing bodies and local leadership.
  • Progress toward self-sufficiency is based on efforts to plan and direct resources in a comprehensive manner consistent with long-range goals.

ANA goals

  • Fostering the development of stable diversified local economies and economic activities to provide jobs, promote community and economic well-being, encourage community partnerships and reduce dependency on public funds and social services.
  • Supporting local access to, control of and coordination of services and programs that safeguard the health and well-being of native children and families.
  • Increasing the number of projects involving youth and intergenerational activities in Native American communities.

Who is eligible

Organizations eligible to apply for Administration for Native Americans (ANA) funding may also receive training and technical assistance from the Center. This generally includes tribes, nonprofit organizations and certain government entities that serve Native communities. To be eligible, a nonprofit organization must:

  • Be a nonprofit organization. State nonprofit status is acceptable at the time of application, but organizations must obtain their IRS nonprofit status and be registered in SAM.gov in order to apply for and receive an ANA award.
  • Have a Board of Directors in which at least 51% of members represent the Native community being served.

Eligible Native communities include American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and Samoan, Chamorro and Carolinian communities. In addition, territorial government agencies in Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa may also be eligible to apply for ANA funding and receive services from the Center.

Each Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) sets out the eligibility for that program; always check the current NOFO on Grants.gov. Trainings are free for eligible organizations.

Where the Center works

The Center serves eligible tribes and Native organizations in every area previously covered by the four regional T/TA centers:

  • The eastern half of the continental United States, from North Dakota down to Texas and all states to the East Coast.
  • The western United States: organizations serving Native American and Pacific Islander populations in the former Western Region.
  • The Pacific: Hawai‘i, American Samoa, Guam, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI).
  • Alaska: Native organizations throughout Alaska.

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