To change the conditions which foster alienation, delinquency, and despair in Navajo children and youth:

Activity 1: Create and develop juvenile justice prevention projects which provide an alternative to incarceration; Activity 2: To link up with police departments, probation departments, school officials, and others to establish a Reservation wide National Youth Project Using Mini-Bike Program(NYPUM); Activity 3: Create recreational activities for youth, including regular dances with police involvement as mentors; Activity 4: Create drug-free programs for elementary children; Activity 5: Obtain funding from all sources to improve individual lives and attitudes about positive values and develop mentoring programs.

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To foster economic independence for the Navajo people:

Activity 1: Raise funds from individuals, foundations, corporations, and government to facilitate sustainable economic expansion in private sector enterprise; Activity 2: Create a one-stop point-of-entry for Navajo seeking assistance to engage in private enterprise, home businesses, or expansion; Activity 3: Provide seminars of value in creating an window of opportunities for individual business owners and those seeking to establish same; Activity 4: Create partnerships with the United States Chamber of Commerce to assist the development of individual enterprise on the Navajo Nation; Activity 5: Establish a Navajo Nation Chamber of Commerce.

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To promote voting registration and voter education to ensure that the Navajo vote is high in all elections:

Activity 1: Promotion of voter registration through bumper stickers, newspaper articles, and voter registration drives; Activity 2: develop relationships with Chapter House officials and county clerks to ensure consistent, equitable, and fair registration; Activity 3: Wage voter registration campaigns; Activity 4: Conduct voter education and candidate recruitment nonpartisan campaigns; Activity 5: Recruit, train, and encourage Navajo candidates for all public offices.

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To promote the enforcement of laws already in place that promote the civil rights and equality of the Navajo People in all sectors of the border communities , including public school systems, where 95% of all positions of power, prestige, and privilege are now in hands of nonNavajo but where Navajo are the economic lifeblood of all these communities:

Activity 1: Create recorders trained in analysis and recognition of nonexistent law enforcement on these issues; Activity 2: Create a data base of violations; Activity 3: Establish relationships with governmental leaders, Department of Justice, Department of Education, and other power entities; Activity 4: Seek legal redress for blatant discrimination and long-standing discrimination now engrained in the border communities and their public school systems; Activity 5: Raise funds and sponsor a annual conference on civil rights issues bringing in experts, witnesses, and public hearing officers.

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To develop policy initiatives for the betterment of the Navajo people, for example: Water desalinization plant:

Activity 1: Establish a voluntary “think tank” to consult with Navajo leadership; Activity 2: Establish mutual relationships with university professional and Navajo leadership; Activity 3: Host seminars on policy development from time to time; Activity 4: Advise on the transitions of leaderships and personnel decisions as needed; Activity 5: Develop key policy proposals for Navajo leadership consideration.

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To promote the establishment of community libraries throughout the Navajo Nation, utilizing the libraries of the schools for the community at large:

Activity 1: Work with foundations, corporate sponsors, schools, and community leadership to fund and establish community libraries and staffing; Activity 2: Develop joint powers agreements between schools, chapter houses, and others; Activity 3: Seek funding for expansion of facilities and books, as well as , staffing; Activity 4: Promote library usage as a family activity; Activity 5: Work with technology firms to fund computers and software as an incentive for schools to open up their libraries to the community.

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To link the desperate needs of Navajo communities with the philanthropy of individuals, corporations, foundations, churches, service clubs, international foundations, and others to meet the needs of these communities:

Activity 1: To create a award-winning web page to identify the mission of the Navajo Institute and the needs of the Navajo people and create windows of opportunity for funding sources to meet these needs; Activity 2: To conduct a direct mail campaign to raise money for food, electric hookups, refrigerators, and other urgent Navajo needs according to a Institute developed priority list; Activity 3: Build relationships with funding sources on behalf of Navajo needs; Activity 4: Create a Comprehensive Infrastructure Development Plan for at least the most impoverished Navajo communities and seek to meet these needs; Activity 5: Prepare brochures for giving, sustaining, and billion dollar campaigns in order to bring impoverished Navajo children into the world free from hunger, darkness, and want.

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To promote the construction of clean, pristine community swimming pools in all Navajo communities:

Activity 1: Raise capital funds through corporate sponsors, foundations, individuals, and others to establish community swimming pools for Navajo communities: Community swimming pools are sixty-by-forty foot shallow length, nondiving pools with a Jacuzzi, locker rooms, an small office can be constructed at the cost of about $150,000 per site; Activity 2: Establish swim lesson program; Activity 3: Swimming pools are operated only in summer months; Activity 4: Hire staff and train lifeguards, creating positions for high school age Navajo youth who are not offered positions in border community swimming pools; Activity 5: Establish free, or low cost public showers for the other nine months of the year.

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