Our 25-Year Impact
As a 501(c) (3) nonprofit committed to championing hope for a brighter future for Native Americans living on remote, isolated and impoverished reservations, PWNA is always encouraged by the progress we see happening for tribal communities.
Through our 25-years of continuous service, PWNA has provided nearly $300 million in aid to the reservations, and our services touched the lives of Native Americans millions of times.
Working together with our reservation partners and our generous donors, we improved quality of life for:
- 1.5 million Elders, families and children, through relief from food insecurity
- 2.5 million participants, who received healthcare screening and education through our reservation partners
- 620,000 people, who received emergency relief from PWNA as a first responder for the reservations
- 1 million Native Elders, teens and children remembered through holiday gifts — many of them for the first time
- .5 million Native students, who had the tools they need for learning and the funding for college
- 182,000 animals that were rescued, rehabilitated and placed in foster or forever homes through PWNA support of reservation partners
In addition, over 25 years PWNA took steps to improve access to critical resources for Native Americans, all of which have made life better for the tribal communities we serve. These steps included:
- Enhancing our Northern Plains reservation aid by opening a program office in Rapid City, SD
- Opening a second program office in Phoenix, AZ, to provide Southwest reservation aid
- Creating services to support Native students who had little access to scholarship support
- Establishing programming that included critical gift-in-kind (GIK) products, increasing the quality, quantity and variety of products we can provide to reservation partners
- Launching a reservation animal rescue program to help animal welfare groups on the reservations address the enormous challenge of stray animals, overpopulation and related community health risks
- Maintaining more than 1,000 reservation partnerships annually to ensure continuous support for communities in need and benefit 250,000 Native Americans each year