One Fire Development Corporation is dedicated to advancing Native American community and economic development through recognizing and valuing the inherent capacities and wisdom that uniquely exist in each tribal community.
The One Fire team is a group of professionals with extensive experience in community and economic development. One Fire brings leading edge strategies and tools to the challenges and opportunities facing tribal communities today.
One Fire's core development approach focuses on four interrelated areas:
- Capturing Hearts and Minds of the Community
- Identifying and Capturing Economic Opportunities
- Building Economic and Organizational Capacity
- Sustaining Action
One Fire is partnering with Wilma Mankiller
in the development of a feature length motion picture.
"The Cherokee Word for Water" is a story about a community that finds
the inner strength to work together and control their destiny.
Projects