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17: Cherokee Nation’s Opportunity Zones Program and How It Supports Entrepreneurs
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17: Cherokee Nation’s Opportunity Zones Program and How It Supports Entrepreneurs
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What does it take to create a thriving Cherokee-owned business? This month, we sit down with Deputy Secretary of State Canaan Duncan and Cherokee entrepreneur Dillin Springwater, who went from push-mowing yards as a teenager to now running multiple businesses filled with Native employees.
Together, they talk about the many ways Cherokee Nation lifts up small-business owners: from TERO vendor preference to $84 million in SSBCI funding, workforce pipeline programs, and our Opportunity Zones program for small-business owners on the reservation and at-large.
Whether you're on the reservation or an at-large citizen with a dream, this episode's for you.
This is Cherokee Nation's official podcast.
This episode was hosted by KenLea Keys and Colton Branstetter.
Producer: Bryan Dugan
Executive Producers: Julie Hubbard and Jason McCarty
Editor: Samantha Robinson
Graphic Designer: Justyne Eden
Visual Effects: Ray Carey
Soundtrack by Chuj Mackey
This episode was filmed at the W.W. Keeler Tribal Complex in Tahlequah on the Cherokee Nation Reservation.
💌 Email us at podcast@cherokee.org!