Spruce Root (Seacoast Trust / Sustainable Southeast Partnership)

What happened

Spruce Root is headquartered in Juneau, Alaska, and describes itself as a Native-founded nonprofit Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI). Its history says it was founded in February 2012 with $500,000 of seed money from Sealaska Corporation, through Haa Aaní Economic Development, under the name Haa Aaní Community Development Fund, Inc. Its team page lists Alana Peterson as Executive Director and names a board chaired by Leslie Isaacs. The organization's stated mission is to drive a regenerative economy across Southeast Alaska grounded in its Haida, Tlingit and Tsimshian ancestral imperative.

Its work is business lending and coaching, workforce and financial-wellness programs, and two connected efforts. The Sustainable Southeast Partnership is a network of Tribal governments, organizations and businesses for which Spruce Root provides coordination. The Seacoast Trust is described as a funding source in which annual earnings fund conservation grounded in Indigenous values. Spruce Root is its fiscal sponsor, and its investment committee is appointed by the Spruce Root board.

Spruce Root describes no land purchase or return of its own. Gifts to the Seacoast Trust go through Spruce Root.

ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer lists Spruce Root Inc of Juneau as a 501(c)(3) with exemption issued February 2013.

Good to know. A lender and fund host, not a land-return group. Its donation form is hosted on Zeffy, so check the payee there.

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