Over $2.5 billion in special, one-time funding is coming to Indian Country under Public Law 111-5, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). The KIVA Institute, LLC offers this course to teach you how you can use the special contracting rules under the Indian Self-Determination Act and other laws to take advantage of this one-time funding. You will learn:

• What programs are funded
• Special rules for accountability and transparency under ARRA
• What is required to get your projects "Shovel Ready"
• How to take advantage of the unique contracting rules under the Indian Self-Determination Act
• Discretionary grants and tribal set-aside grants
• Doing business in Indian Country - what are the rules?
• How to search for grants and other funding opportunities
• August 15, 2009 deadline to state tribal "commitment" to use special ARRA/IRR funds. Funds must be obligated no later than February 17, 2010. A tribe's allocation of these funds not obligated by September 30, 2010 will be withdrawn and may be permanently lost.

BY ATTENDING, YOU WILL RECEIVE VALUABLE RESOURCE AND REFERENCE MATERIAL COMPILED BY OUR KNOWLEDGEABLE STAFF AT NO ADDITIONAL COST:  a Special "Indian Country Economic Stimulus Reference Guide", a reference CD of applicable laws and statutes and other important supplements.