NAFSA Launches New Statewide Advertising Campaign in Connecticut: “Brighter Future”
On March 13, the Native American Financial Services Association (NAFSA) debuted its newest paid media campaign, “Brighter Future,” in the Hartford Courant, Hartford Business Journal, and online. The ad, featuring a mother and her young daughter, highlights the role...NAFSA Executive Director Lance A. Gumbs Awarded the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development’s “Advocate of the Year” Award
On Tuesday, March 10, the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development honored NAFSA Executive Director Lance A. Gumbs with the “Tim Wapato Public Advocate of the Year” award. The award’s namesake, Tim Wapato, lived his life fighting for the rights of...Washington Post: Tribal Lending Helps Consumers
This article originally appeared in The Washington Post. The March 2 front-page article “Tribes’ bet on high-interest lending comes with uneasy feelings” omitted the fact that tribally owned businesses are regulated, geared toward customer satisfaction and take...Native American Financial Services Association Announces New Executive Director
WASHINGTON, DC (February 4, 2015) – The Native American Financial Services Association (NAFSA) is pleased to announce Lance Gumbs as its new Executive Director. As Executive Director, Lance will direct the day-to-day operations and strategic direction of NAFSA, the...The Blaze: Native Americans Say Obama Program Is Hurting Their Businesses and Is an Affront to Tribal Sovereignty
A Native American group contends a controversial Obama administration program is harming online businesses that are critical to funding tribal governments, and at the same time violating tribal sovereignty. Operation Choke Point is run through the Department of...
The Hill: Free Indian Country from Operation Choke Point
By Lance A. Gumbs When President Obama spoke recently at the 2014 White House Tribal Nations Conference, he told the assembled leaders from the 566 federally recognized tribes that his administration would “keep promoting economic growth in Indian Country, because...
