How I Make Investments
What I Invest In
How do you invest yourself: your time...your financial and proprietary resources...your mental, emotional, and intellectual rigor?
Aside from the traditional needs I serve and roles I fulfill as an investor, I devote the above-mentioned assets in things I can "get behind" and be passionate about at any level—not just projects and start-ups, but people. In fact, I'm more apt to become involved in something because of its backbone: the person or people that drive it.
Some examples of how/what I invest in:
Native American Communities
Arts & Culture
Film & Television Projects
Live and Recorded Entertainment Projects
Affordable Housing (I am a Certified Tribal Housing Professional.)
CDFIs (Native Community Development Financial Institutions)
That being said, I have always been more focused on using the majority of my brain trust and other proprietary resources for my own philanthropic interests.
Causes I care about:
Arts & Culture
Drum & Bugle Corps / Drum and Fife Corps — financial stability and sustainability
Cultural Heritage and American Indian Language Preservation
Music Education
Community Arts Programs
Native American Sovereignty issues, affairs, policy
Education
US Military Service Veterans Affairs
Some organizations my companies and I both support: