This time of year, our NB3FIT coaches and program youth are usually in full swing with summer soccer leagues and golf camps! However, due to the uncertain times we’re all navigating through, the NB3FIT team has shifted its energy and creativity to focus on providing virtual programming to the youth! In early July, NB3FIT […]
On July 16, 2020, the NB3 Foundation hosted a virtual Visiting Relatives Gathering with seven Community Partners from New Mexico as well as two guest speakers, Celena McCray and Waylon Pahona Jr. The gathering created a space for our relatives to share their organization’s “pivoting” during COVID-19. Each organization or tribe, showed a short […]
The Notah Begay III (NB3) Foundation is excited to promote Renee Goldtooth-Halwood to lead its new Department of Evaluation and Research. As the new Director of Evaluation and Research, Ms. Goldtooth-Halwood will help develop a department focused on indigenizing evaluation and research practices that reflect and respect the communities we serve. Too often, evaluation and […]
LAKE TAHOE, Calif., (June 30, 2020) – NBC Sports and American Century Investments announced today all prize money for the upcoming American Century Championship golf tournament will be donated to the Equal Justice Initiative, COVID-19 relief, including the Notah Begay III (NB3) Foundation COVID-19 Response Fund and the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) COVID-19 Response […]
JBA Evaluation Report for NB3 Foundation_May 2019
The “Helping Our Relatives” Project is a unique internal organization effort to engage all staff in direct giving and supporting those in need. A modest amount was given to each staff member to use as they see fit to support youth, elders and families. The manner and method staff choose, the people they choose and […]
Gratitude prevails. The generosity of nearly 400 individual donors, foundations, businesses and volunteers has resulted in $300,000 raised for the NB3 Foundation COVID-19 Response Fund. With these resources, we are committed to providing needed food, water and supplies directly to Native American communities impacted by COVID-19. To date we have provided food, water and financial […]
Founder and principal of Explore! Community School brings experience and passion for youth development The Notah Begay III (NB3) Foundation is excited to announce and welcome Jon Driskell as its new chief operating officer (COO). Driskell is an innovative leader, teacher, and coach with proven results in education, youth development and program management. He began […]
Media Contact Sacha Smith (505) 867-0775 sacha@nb3f.org SANTA ANA PUEBLO, N.M. (May 7, 2020) – Today, the Notah Begay III (NB3) Foundation announced a generous donation of $50,000 from Delta Dental of New Mexico to support the NB3 Foundation COVID-19 Response Fund: a direct action fund providing food, water and educational resources to tribes, pueblos […]
Andrea Thomas, Diné educator and Navajo Nation Board of Education member, and her 3rd-5th grade students at Mesa Elementary in Shiprock, N.M. have been struggling to continue their lessons remotely amid the closure of schools on the Navajo Nation, due to the coronavirus pandemic. Motivation has not been a barrier for her, her students […]
