Change Labs Kinship Lending loan program welcomes back a record number of alumni into its new cohort

More than 25 Native‑led organizations aim to grow housing, small business, financial opportunities.

The 2023 AHEAD grants will support 75 innovative economic development initiatives throughout Arizona, California, and Nevada

Change Labs is approved for a $125,000 Our Town award from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to support the architectural design of expansion of its entrepreneurship hub in Tuba City as well as architectural design for a Change Labs entrepreneurship hub in Shiprock, NM

The 1,400-square-foot work and event space, meeting area and community center is the first building of its kind for business owners, creatives and the entrepreneurial-curious on the Navajo Nation.

Change Labs rings in the new year with a new cohort of Indigenous entrepreneurs who want to change how business is done.

Two Change Labs alumni join a historic council with a record number of women leaders serving in Navajo Nation Council Delegate seats.

An unrestricted contribution helps funds new ideas and initiatives.

With its new cohort of twelve Indigenous entrepreneurs, the Change Labs incubator is seeing a new wave of ideas targeting the community success and wellbeing.

Change Labs uses USDA funds to welcome 17 new Native American borrowers into its Kinship Lending program for business owners and nonprofit leaders on Navajo and Hopi land.

Nááts’íilid Initiative, an Indigenous-led, coalition-driven non-profit is awarded a $500,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Humanities in Place Program.

Change Labs and Nez Technologics teamed up with LISC and the Better Business Bureau to improve internet speeds and provide technology and digital training program for Navajo business owners.

Nine incredible gifts from Native hands for the matriarchs in your life! Don’t forget to #BuyNative for Mother’s Day this year.

Change Labs' Kinship Lending Program helps Navajo and Hopi business owners find their way in an uncertain time, it also helps first-time borrowers learn the ins and outs of what it takes to have a loan and how to manage one.

#BuyNative this holiday season with our recommendations for gifts for all ages. We’ve scoured our community, Instagram, and Facebook for ideas, and here’s our top picks for fun and unique gifts made by Indigenous hands.

Change Labs is celebrating a big win as we break ground on our new headquarters in Tuba City, Arizona.

Grant enables funding to make local businesses in Tuba City more visible to non-locals

Change Labs, Native Community Capital, Native Women Lead, and New Mexico Community Capital will launch a new entity to boost locally-driven entrepreneurial ecosystems and economic development in Southwestern Indigenous communities.