{"id":9759,"date":"2021-04-05T10:58:19","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T14:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=9759"},"modified":"2021-04-05T11:04:30","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T15:04:30","slug":"nafoa-5-things-you-need-to-know-this-week-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/04\/05\/nafoa-5-things-you-need-to-know-this-week-29\/","title":{"rendered":"NAFOA: 5 Things You Need to Know this Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\"nafoa\"\r\n
Photo of the Week: NAFOA Leadership Alumnus Ariel Farinango (Native Inca) interviews three Native American women \u2014 Victoria Wright (Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head Aquinnah), Nancy Lowery (Poarch Band of Creek Indians) and Lacey Horn (Cherokee Nation) \u2014 who share their experience in Corporate America. Read the blog post, Advancing Native American Representation in the Corporate World<\/a>. <\/figcaption>\r\n
5 Things You Need to Know this Week<\/div>\r\n
Helping tribes stay informed and make the most of opportunities.<\/div>\r\n
Monday, April 5, 2021<\/div>\r\n
Source: NAFOA<\/div>\r\n
nafoa.org<\/a><\/div>\r\n

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1. FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT:<\/em><\/div>\r\nDUE TODAY \u2014 PROVIDE FEEDBACK ON THE GASB’S TECHNICAL PLAN[\/sub]\r\nThe Governmental Accounting Standards Advisory Council (GASAC) is seeking feedback in prioritizing the Governmental Accounting Standards Board’s (GASB) technical plan. This survey will inform the GASAC and GASB on what areas to focus its research.\r\n

<\/p>\r\nThe survey<\/a> is geared towards Tribal CFOs, Treasurers, and Financial Professionals. \r\n

<\/p>\r\nThe deadline for completion of the survey is Monday, April 5th, 2021, and should take 15 minutes to complete.\r\n

<\/p>\r\nTake the Survey<\/a>\r\n

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2. POLICY:<\/em><\/div>\r\n
PRESIDENT BIDEN RELEASES AMERICAN JOBS PLAN<\/div>\r\nOn Wednesday, March 31st, President released the American Jobs Plan<\/a>, an over $2 billion infrastructure proposal. The Plan includes funding and programs to support infrastructure investments in transportation, electricity grids, broadband, water systems, housing, health care, agriculture, climate change mitigation, and create job opportunities<\/a>. \r\n

<\/p>\r\nTribal governments and communities are specifically mentioned in the Plan, including: $56 billion in grants and low-cost flexible loans to states, Tribes, territories, and disadvantaged communities for water systems infrastructure; a focus on supporting roads and bridges in rural and Tribal communities; Tribal set-asides for broadband infrastructure; clean energy power generation and grid modernization; build and retrofit more than a million housing units, and the creation of a new $5 billion Rural Partnership Program to help build Tribal and rural economic development and communities. Congress will work on developing legislation around the plan in the next few weeks. \r\n

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3. MORE POLICY:<\/em><\/div>\r\n
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR TREASURY SECRETARY APPOINTMENTS TO TTAC<\/div>\r\nThe Department of the Treasury is seeking nominations for three appointments to the Treasury Tribal Advisory Committee (TTAC).\r\n

<\/p>\r\nApplicants must submit a cover letter and resume to TTAC@treasury.gov with the subject line \u2018\u2018Treasury Tribal Advisory Committee member application or recommendation\u2019\u2019 by June 1, 2021. Self-nominations and re-nomination of current TTAC members are welcome. \r\n

<\/P>\r\nFor more information, see NAFOA’s latest Broadcast<\/a>.\r\n

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americanrescueplanconsultation<\/a><\/div>\r\n

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4. FOR TRIBES:<\/em><\/div>\r\n
COMMENTS DUE FOR AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN AND UPCOMING CONSULTATIONS<\/div>\r\nThe Department of the Treasury is hosting a carryover consultation on the American Rescue Plan today, Monday, April 5, 2021 at 2:00 p.m. Attendees who are not speakers are invited to join in listen-only mode. Click here to find the list of speakers and call-in information<\/a>.\r\n

<\/p>\r\nThe deadline for written comments for the formula for the $20 billion distributions for tribal governments from the American Rescue Plan has been extended, comments can be sent to TribalARPconsult@treasury.gov no later than 11:59 EST on Friday, April 9, 2021. \r\n

<\/p>\r\nThe Department of the Treasury, Veterans Affairs, the Social Security Administration, and the Small Business Administration are hosting a tribal leader consultation on each agency’s consultation policies. These Joint consultations will be taking place 6 times from April 6-8. \r\n

<\/p>\r\nPlease see the joint Dear Tribal Leader Letter<\/a> for your region’s scheduled session and registration information. To provide written comments, please email the following department and agency mailboxes no later than 11:59 EST on Friday, April 9, 2021:\r\n

<\/p>\r\nDepartment of the Treasury: tribal.consult@treasury.gov\r\nSocial Security Administration: AIAN.EC@ssa.gov\r\nSmall Business Administration: tribalconsultation@sba.gov\r\nDepartment of Veteran\u2019s Affairs: tribalgovernmentconsultation@va.gov\r\n

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5. JOBS: <\/em><\/div>\r\n
THE AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND SEEKS SCHOLARSHIP MANAGER<\/div>\r\nThe Scholarships Manager is an integral part of the Student Success Services Team that administers scholarship and other student support programs to fulfill a core mission of the American Indian College Fund \u2013 offering students access to knowledge, skills, and cultural values that enhance their education, their communities, their careers and the country. The Scholarships Manager manages and administers the TCU and Full Circle Scholarship programs, leads scholarship recruitment efforts and supervises the Scholarships Coordinator. In addition, the Manager assists the Student Success Services Team in the overall administration of all scholarships and other student success programs and represents the College Fund at various marketing\/recruitment events.

<\/p>\r\n Learn more and apply at www.nafoa.org\/jobs<\/a>.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Helping tribes stay informed and make the most of opportunities.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9761,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,18,19,1,14],"tags":[1309,1308,157,5,121,36,280,810,1363,89,234],"class_list":["post-9759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-education","category-health","category-national","category-politics","tag-american-indian-college-fund","tag-american-rescue-plan","tag-consultation","tag-coronavirus","tag-employment","tag-nafoa","tag-sba","tag-scholarships","tag-ssda","tag-treasury","tag-va","no-wpautop"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcoJ7g-2xp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/05\/nafoa.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}