Funders & Partners

New Mexico Community Capital (NMCC) is a private registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization, serving as an umbrella for the Native Entrepreneur in Residence Program.

NMCC’s Program are made possible by support from:

  • Equality Can’t Wait Challenge Hosts:
    • Pivotal Ventures
    • Melinda French Gates’ Investment and Incubation Company
    • MacKenzie Scott and Dan Jewett
    • Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies
    • in partnership with Lever for Change
  • W.K. Kellogg Foundation
  • Administration for Native Americans (ANA)
  • United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
  • Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI)
  • Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA)
  • Small Business Association (SBA)
  • Native American Agricultural Fund (NAAF)
  • Forest County Potawatomi Foundation
  • Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community
  • New Mexico Foundation
  • Tamalpais Trust
  • Albuquerque Community Foundation
  • National Congress of American Indians
  • Swift Foundation
  • Isora Foundation
  • Throdosia Ferguson
  • Nusenda Credit Union
  • Nourish
  • New Mexico Farmers Market Association
  • Amerind Risk

If you are interested in supporting the work of the NEIR program either programmatically or in sustainable operations, please contact Liz Gamboa, liz@nmccap.org.

Our Goals

Recognizing the need to develop and grow Native American entrepreneurial businesses with these goals:

  • Reduce “economic leakage” in Tribal communities
  • Retain and grow circulation of money earned via development of local entrepreneurship
  • Create Tribal economic diversification, growth, and sustainability
  • Strengthen skill sets
  • Move from a state of “possibility” to a state of “probability” in Tribal economic growth
  • Grow the reality and awareness of high performing Native American entrepreneurs throughout the U.S.

Additional on-going support to sustain and expand the NEIR program is always welcome.