Every school district serving Native American students needs to establish a private nonprofit educational foundation so that private moneys can be raised by public bodies to meet the devastating cuts that are being made and that will continue to be made in Indian Education. Each district needs a director of development who will excite the community’s participation, can write and solicit grants from corporations, foundations, churches, and individuals, can conduct special event fund raising efforts, and can invest the funds wisely so that our schools can survive. Creative philanthropy can also solicit international proposals from the Arabs and other rich nations, use charitable remainder trusts and other endowment funds, and create regular alumni and foster alumni organizations. If a school delivers an education in a way in which all of that schools students learn at or surpass national standards, the money will come. Build a good education for the children, and it will come.

All Native American schools should have at the very minimum:

• The Foundation Directory, Foundation Center, New York NY
• Taft Foundation Directory, Taft Corporate Directory, Taft Corporation, Rockville MD
• Federal Register, the daily newspaper of the federal government
• Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance
• United States Government Handbook, United States Government Printing Office, Washington, DC