Citi To Award Funding To Support Business Development Fund

Oct. 22, 2009

From The Rapid City Journal

Citibank executives will announce on Monday the recipients of grants totaling $280,000 that will support nonprofit agencies serving Native Americans at Crazy Horse Memorial near Custer. Citi recently surpassed $25 million in charitable giving to South Dakota nonprofits.
Citi CEO Vikram Pandit and Ken Stork, president and chief executive officer of Citibank South Dakota will present the Citi Grants awards at the 3:30 p.m. press conference Monday at the Crazy Horse Memorial Welcome Center, 12151 Ave. of the Chiefs.
A $25,000 Citi grant will support the new Harvest Initiative Business Development Fund on the Crow Creek Indian Reservation to help develop businesses and jobs in Buffalo County, the nation's poorest county, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Other Native nonprofits and dignitaries invited to the conference include Ruth Ziolkowski, CEO of Crazy Horse Foundation, Oweesta Corporation, Youth & Family Services, American Indian College Fund, Four Bands Community Band and Lakota Fund.