Lemmai-Mei Nonprofit Incubator

Marianas Alliance of Non-governmental Organizations will enhance the local Native nonprofit organizations’ capacity to effectively operate projects that address barriers to prosperity for the Chamorro and Carolinian communities. Active nonprofits surveys identified capacity as their biggest challenge, and an analysis of survey responses revealed that 55% of all registered CNMI nonprofits are inactive. The project will establish a nonprofit incubator and focus on developing a customized nonprofit mentoring and support program that will provide comprehensive training on capacity areas such as establishing a nonprofit, board training, sustainability, strategic planning, managing a nonprofit, and financial management. In addition, the project will establish three to five year strategic plans for 25 total existing and developing Native nonprofit organizations serving Chamorro and Carolinian communities to improve their MANGO Nonprofit Sustainability Scale to midrange or better. Through these efforts, Native nonprofit organizations will have a permanent expansion of services for the Chamorro and Carolinian community provided by more sustainable Native nonprofits with greatly improved capacity.