Brief Description: As tribes and Native communities seek to develop a strong foundation for economic development activities and strategies, they must also identify the array of available sources of funding, financing and/or customers/clients that will support the enterprises and projects that will ultimately implement portions of these strategies. The third installment in this 3-part training series will explore the use of federal contracting to grow tribal enterprises and 8(a) businesses, including training on various types of federal contracts and some important considerations that tribal entities should be aware of as they seek out federal contracts.

Part 3:

• Federal Contracting

Part 1 - Identifying and Combining Funding

Part 2 - Cultivating Investor-Lender-Borrower Relationships