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- With grant funds from the NB3 Foundation COVID-19 Response Fund, community partners kicked off 2021 providing their communities essential items to alleviate impacts from the pandemic. Pictured here: Society of Native Nations Antonio, TX preparing food drop-offs for families.
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- Get Active was a campaign hosted to help keep Native youth active and well throughout the pandemic.
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- NB3FIT announces its first ever golf team, consisting of Native youth golfers from across the state of New Mexico.
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- NB3FIT Program Coordinator Demitrius Payne (Pueblo of Laguna) is interviewed about his role growing up in and now coaching for NB3 Foundation’s NB3FIT youth program
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- NB3FIT hosts first in-person program for youth since before the pandemic.
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- NB3 Foundation features Native youth from across the country in their Youth Spotlight series highlighting Native youth excellence.
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- NB3FIT gets youth active for summer.
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- NB3 Foundation begins implementing gamified evaluation methods to collect data from program youth. Pictured here is an example of body mapping.
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- On Monday, July 12 Koi Zunie signed his letter of intent to play collegiate golf for Bacone College in Muskogee, Okla. The signing took place at the Santa Ana Golf Club, where Koi says his true golf career started last year at the Notah Begay III (NB3) Foundation’s Native Youth Golf Championship.
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- NB3 Foundation hosts second annual Native Youth Golf Championship at Santa Ana Golf Club.
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- NB3FIT XC returns to the trails competing in its first in-person race since 2019.
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- Members of the NB3FIT Golf team preform big at Santa Ana Pueblo Native American Open.
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- November 2021, NB3FIT Community XC Run returns with in-person race.
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- Five members of the NB3FIT XC team travel to Paris, Kentucky to compete in the USATF National Junior Olympic Championship.
This year at the NB3 Foundation we focused on rebuilding in-person programs and strengthening our relationships with Native youth and communities who were affected by the global pandemic and shutdowns. Due to the continued tribal precautions, our NB3FIT team had to create new ways to stay connected while still delivering quality programming to Native youth. The year started with virtual programming and slowly transitioned to a hybrid format until we were finally back in-person this past summer. Our youth and families were ecstatic to see each other and get back together as a community.
We also doubled down on our support of tribal communities by providing funding through our Community Empowerment grants and supportive tools like the ‘Keeping Track: Toolkit for Indigenous Youth Program Evaluation’ both aimed at empowering communities to make sustainable changes that benefit their children’s health.
In order to keep the momentum going, we need your help. What we have seen over the past year is that families have been impacted financially by the global pandemic and many are not always able to pay for youth program fees. We provided full scholarships to 86 percent of participants in our recent cross-country season to cover the cost of coaches, uniforms and materials needed for Native youth to fully participate without the worry of not having adequate supplies.
COO, Acting President and CEO
