2016 TOHONO OODHAM UNITED NATIONAL INDIAN TRIBAL YOUTH APPLICATION.PDF

Last updated: 05/10/2016
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General information
Organization United National Indian Tribal Youth
Contact First name george
Contact Last name thomas
Contact e-mail tucumthaPamail.com
Contact phone number 928-277-3418
Address
Street 3013 B Truwood Dr
City Prescott Valley
State AZ
ZIP Code 86314
From what tribe is the organization requesting the grant?
Tohono O'odham Nation
Total grant amount request
50000

IRS l'.7.2.1r=tecTs3.1-3,Y.V
P.O. Box 2508 In reply refer to 0248459781
Cincinnati OH 45201 June 10, 2009 LTR 4168C EC
73-1010390 000000 00 000
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BODC: TE
UNITED NATIONAL INDIAN TRIBAL YOUTH
INC
500 N BROADWAY AVE STE 10
OKLAHOMA CITY OK 73102
Employer Identification Number: 73-1010390
Person to Contact: MS. WINKLER
Toll Free Telephone Number: 1-877-829-5500 ,
Dear TAXPAYER:
This is in response to your request of June 01, 2009, regarding your
tax-exempt status.
Our records indicate that a determination letter was issued in
FEBRUARY 1977, that recognized you as exempt from Federal income tax,
and discloses that you are currently exempt under section 501(c)(3)
of the Internal Revenue Code.
Our records also indicate YOU are not a private foundation within the
meaning of section 509(a) of the Code because you are described in
section(s) 509(a)(1) and 170(b)(1)(A)(vi).
Donors may deduct contributions to you as provided in section 170 of
the Code. Bequests, legacies, devises, transfers, or gifts to you or
for your use are deductible for Federal estate and gift tax Purposes
if they meet the applicable provisions of sections 2055, 2106, and
2522 of the Code.
If you have any questions, please call us at the telephone number
shown in the heading of this letter.
Sincerely yours,
Michele M. Sullivan, Oper. Mgr.
Accounts Management Operations I

Preparing Native Youth for Leadership
2016 Proposal from United National Indian Tribal Youth (UNITY) to
Tohono O'odham Nation
UNITYs mission is to foster the spiritual, mental, physical and social development of
American Indian and Alaska Native youth; and to help build a strong, unified and self-
reliant Native America through involvement of its youth. In keeping with its mission,
UNITY has served the needs of American Indian and Alaska Native youth, within the 13 to
24 age range, for 40 years.
UNITY was founded in Oklahoma in 1976 to help direct Native American youths' energy and
talents toward finding solutions to the problems affecting them and; further, to involve them in
the efforts to improve their personal lives, schools, and communities. Mary Kim Titla (San
Carlos Apache), a UNITY alumna is the organization's Executive Director and leads the efforts
to improve the effectiveness of all UNITY programs, increase the number of youth participants
in all its programs, and increase the opportunities for youth to get involved in the important
work of bringing about positive changes within their communities.
UNITY is a national nonprofit organization (EIN: 731010390) with 160 affiliated youth
councils operating in 36 states. This "UNITY Network" of youth councils represents
thousands of Native American youth across the country who are developing life and
leadership skills as they learn by taking part in yearly youth council events and activities.
Affiliated youth councils play an important role within the organization's decision-making
process. Upon affiliation, each youth council becomes a member of the National UNITY
Council (NUC) and may designate a young woman and young man as their representatives on
the Council. Each year the Council, which was established in 1991, elects a 12-member
Executive Committee to carry out the Council's business between its twice yearly business
meetings. To ensure a close and effective working relationship and good communications
between the organization and its affiliates, the young man and young woman elected to the
office of Council Co-Presidents, become voting members of the UNITY Council of Trustees.
This structure is an efficient and effective means for UNITY to receive guidance from its most
important stakeholders during the consideration, design, planning, and implementation of
youth serving programs.
UNITYs goal is to continue providing quality programs to the nation's Native youth and to
involve as many youths as possible in its programs so as to help prepare them for the
challenges they will encounter as they assume responsible roles within their communities,
professions, and families.

A. NEED AND PROJECT ACTIVITIES: A major motivating factor for UNITYs efforts to
help organize tribal youth councils came about because of a number of youth suicides that
occurred in Native communities in the latter part of the 1970s. The UNITY Executive Director
at the time, was invited to meet with tribal officials and he called upon them to give their youth
a voice, a role to play in addressing the issues that exist within their communities that
negatively affect them. The call was answered and today the Native youth and their home
communities benefit because of the collective voice they now assert to help influence and guide
decision-makers as they consider various courses of action to address the problems facing
Native youth.
Therefore, UNITY proposes the Preparing Native Youth for Leadership project as a means of
furthering its mission while providing a more effective means for future Native leaders to
voice the collective concerns of UNITY affiliated youth as they engage in and learn from
activities through which they educate and inform those in Native American community as well
as those in the general public about the problems, concerns, and efforts to build a stronger
more self-reliant Native America.
The Preparing Native Youth for Leadership project has the following objectives:
• By the end of the third project month, at least one advisor and three youth leaders from a
minimum of 12 of Arizona's UNITY affiliated youth councils will have received
training in developing a youth council communications plan, producing a 2 to 3-minute
video news segment, and writing a news release that meets acceptable standards,
• By the end of the 12 th project month, at least 12 of Arizona's UNITY affiliated youth
councils will have developed and adopted a communications plan, produced at least one
2 to 3-minute video news segment for posting on the UNITY website (unityine.org ), and
written and distributed a news release reporting on a youth council activity/event or
other local event to area print news media, and
• By the end of the 12 th project month, at least 12 youth councils, whose members
participated in the communications training, will have produced and submitted to
UNITY a 1 to 2-minute (longer allowed) video promoting a youth council activity or
event for posting to the UNITY website and social media.
Mary Kim Titla will conduct the 1 1/2 day training session. She holds an undergraduate degree in
journalism and master's degrees in mass communications and educational leadership and
supervision. She is an enrolled member of the San Carlos Apache tribe and is a former TV
reporter for KVOA in Tucson and KPNS in Phoenix. Prior to assuming UNITYs executive
director's position, she worked for five years in education administration for the San Carlos
Unified School District where she oversaw the communications department. Jason
Coochwytewa, owner of Red Note, Inc., a firm that consults on matters concerning
electronic/social media, marketing and promotions, fund development and event planning will
assist in conducting the training.
The training will include segments on effective communications, which is an extremely
important area of expertise given the rapidly changing communications/information landscape
that is being driven by digital technology innovations that allow for anyone with access to a
digital camera, a microphone, and the Internet to develop content with the potential for being
seen by millions. Most of this content is lost in the digital turbidity, so, to receive the attention a

message deserves it must be well thought out, crafted, presented via the appropriate media and
promoted to ensure that it will gamer the attention of the target audience.
Once training is completed, a participant will have the fundamentals and tools needed to
develop a communications plan appropriate for meeting their group's purposes and needs.
The youth will also have learned how to use the digital tools that at hand to craft video
messages that effectively share news of interest within the context afforded by a well-thought-
out communications plan. Additionally, they will understand how to promote an idea, event,
and message - including such things as enlisting volunteers for a community project, recruiting
participants for a fundraiser or a sporting event, and encouraging those in their target audience
to participate in that being promoted.
UNITY, through the project, will provide technical assistance as may be needed to guide
participants through producing a news segment, video editing, and writing and distributing a
news release. The assistance will utilize online collaborative measures where assistance can be
provided in real-time. Another means of assistance will be offered in the form of occasional
webinars as the need may dictate.
Throughout the project the emphasis will be placed on creating and circulating messages that
promote a positive outlook among the target audience of Native youth and those who support
them.
This program will help the participants develop needed skills for the rising leaders in the
emerging digitally driven economy and information age.
The items of content produced by the project's participants will be received by UNITY and
permanently archived for any time viewing on the UNITY website, uploaded to the UNITY
Facebook (7,458 followers) page, and widely distributed via periodic c-blasts and other
electronic means to thousands of subscribers.
B. POPULATION SERVED: There are 23 UNITY affiliated youth councils (including the
Tohono O'odham Nation Youth Council) operating in Arizona. The members of these youth
councils will be the target population for the proposed project. It is estimated that approximately
700/1000 Native youth and their advisors will be directly served during the project by virtue of
their participation in the project's activities.
C. Budget:
BUDGET ITEM AMOUNT
Personnel Cost (Project Coordinator@ 0.375 FTE) $17685
Tele 9 hone, su g 'lies, • °sta.! e $1700
Youth Travel $1760
Youth rooms $3564
Youth Per Diem $6361
Trainer Travel $400
Trainer Room $188
Trainer Per Diem $177
$975

Youth Facilitator Travel $500
Youth Facilitator Room $188
Youth Facilitator Per Diem $177
Youth Facilitator Fee $975
Technical Assistant Fee $6000
Facility $500
Digital Equip. - Camera, Microphone, Tripod (Loaners) $2850
Video Editing Software - 12 Copies X 100/copy $1200
Web consultant $2400
Communications Consultant 2400
Total Funds Requested $50,000
D. OTHER FUNDING REQUESTS: UNITY has not requested funding from others related
to the activities included in this proposal.
E. UNITY has not received a 12% distribution from the Tohono O'odham Nation or any
other Arizona tribe.
F. CONTACTS
Primary Contact: Mary Kim Titla; inak.titla@unityinc.org ; (480) 718 — 9793; 1 N.
MacDonald Drive, Suite 212, Mesa, AZ 85201; Fax: (480) 773-6369.
Alternate Contact: Tami Patterson; tpatterson@unityinc.org ; (480) 718-9793; 1 N.
MacDonald Drive, Suite 212, Mesa, AZ 85201; Fax: (480) 773-6369.
G. The proposed Preparing Native Youth for Leadership projects relates to the Education
area of distribution priority.
H. In the event this grant application is funded, UNITY will enter into an agreement with
Maricopa County for the purposes of the request for proposal requirement.