Hummingbird Indigenous Family Services Implements First US Guaranteed Income Program for Indigenous Communities
SEATTLE, Oct. 12, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AidKit today announced that it has partnered with Washington’s Hummingbird Indigenous Family Services (IFS) to administer payments for the first guaranteed income program in the United States exclusively serving Indigenous communities.
- SEATTLE, Oct. 12, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AidKit today announced that it has partnered with Washington’s Hummingbird Indigenous Family Services (IFS) to administer payments for the first guaranteed income program in the United States exclusively serving Indigenous communities.
- Hummingbird IFS was founded with the mission of healthy Indigenous babies born into healthy Indigenous families supported by healthy Indigenous communities.
- “Abundance is a traditional cultural value that has been lost due to relocation and genocide,” said Tia Yazzie, Abundance Auntie with Hummingbird Indigenous Family Services.
- “The Nest is a powerful program providing not just life-changing, but generation-changing, support to Indigenous families,” said Brittany Christenson, CEO of AidKit.