Kevin Klingbeil 11/6/24 Kevin Klingbeil 11/6/24

Big Water joined the NATIVE ACTION NETWORK's 20th annual Native Women's Leadership Forum and Young Native Women’s Leadership Academy

Research Associate, Chloe Adler, presented the findings of the Native Women's Leadership Report, a NAN initiative completed in March 2024 aimed at fostering Native women's leadership in the state of Washington by gathering information and insight from hundreds of Native women about their leadership goals, current barriers, and programming wants and needs.

Kevin Klingbeil 5/7/24 Kevin Klingbeil 5/7/24

Red Cliff 2023 Tribal Census Presentation

Big Water team members visited Bayfield, Wisconsin on the week of April 28th to present the results of the Red Cliff 2023 Tribal Census to Red Cliff's Tribal Council and community members.

Kevin Klingbeil 3/12/24 Kevin Klingbeil 3/12/24

Native Action Network's inspiring International Women's Day Luncheon

Big Water is honored to have been a part of Native Action Network (NAN)'s inspiring International Women's Day Luncheon on March 8th, 2024. The event was a celebration of Native women's accomplishments and leadership.

Kevin Klingbeil 12/18/20 Kevin Klingbeil 12/18/20

[ Report ] 2020 Census Outreach Report

In January 2021 we released a report documenting 2020 Census Outreach work completed by the We’re Here We Count campaign, a coalition of partners that was funded by the Washington State Office of Financial Management and included United Way of King County, King County, Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle, Pyramid Communications, Washington Census Alliance, Na’ah Illahee Fund, and Big Water Consulting.

Kevin Klingbeil 2/5/20 Kevin Klingbeil 2/5/20

[ Report ] NAIHC/HUD Crime Prevention Summit

In an effort to complement the community engagement, housing managing and law enforcement efforts described by other presenters at the HUD/NAIHC Crime Prevention Summit in Denver, Big Water presented an array of data collection techniques and data storage and sharing tools that could enable tribes and tribal programs to better coordinate with other tribal and non-tribal agencies, mobilize their communities to gather critical information, better target the use of limited law enforcement resources, and integrate available data to allow for identification of critical patterns and timelines concerning issues such as Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons, gang activity and methamphetamine use in tribal housing units.

Kevin Klingbeil 11/7/19 Kevin Klingbeil 11/7/19

[ Report ] LCO Community Assessment Complete

Big Water would like to congratulate the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians on completing its LCO Community Assessment project. We had an opportunity to share the results of the household survey with project stakeholders and community members at LCO Ojibwe Community College in Hayward, Wisconsin on November 5. Our follow-up meetings with the Grants/Planning Department and the Waadookodaading Ojibwe Language Immersion School on November 6 will help ensure that this data is fully utilized by the Tribe and tribal programs and that future tribal data collection efforts will benefit from lessons learned in this project. This project serves as yet another example of tribes in northern Wisconsin taking a data-driven approach to planning, program management and the grant application process. We would also like to thank Enterprise Community Partners for providing critical matching funds in support of this capacity-building project.

Kevin Klingbeil 9/9/19 Kevin Klingbeil 9/9/19

[ Report ] South Dakota Tribal Veterans Homeownership Study Reports Available Online

Big Water Consulting partnered with the Cheyenne River Housing Authority, Oglala Sioux (Lakota) Housing and Sissteon Wahpeton Housing Authority as well as the Tribal Veterans Service Officers (TVSOs) for these three reservations to conduct a survey and a focus group with tribal veterans in each area. The purpose of this project was to determine evaluate veterans' housing needs, their interest in and qualification for homeownership, and opportunities to better serve those who served their country. We were honored to participate this project and would like to thank all of the contributors to this inaugural effort, including the tribal housing entities, the TVSOs, South Dakota Native Homeownership Coalition (SDNHC), Lakota Funds and Enterprise Community Partners.

Kevin Klingbeil 5/22/19 Kevin Klingbeil 5/22/19

[ Report ] Presentation of SISC King County AIAN Housing Needs Study to ATNI Housing Committee

Kevin Klingbeil presented the results and key findings of the SISC King County American Indian and Alaska Native Housing Needs Study to the Housing Committee of ATNI. Discussion addressed the specific needs of Native students in Seattle, efforts to develop new housing for Native families and other subpopulations of the Native community in King County, and disparities between the income levels of Native households and the median household income for King County as well as the wide gap between the rising cost of housing in this area and what Native families can actually afford.

Kevin Klingbeil 2/19/19 Kevin Klingbeil 2/19/19

[ Big Water Talk ] United Native American Housing Association Meth Summit

Kevin Klingbeil presented the results of a Meth Testing and Remediation Survey to staff of tribal housing entities in the Northern Plains and representatives of the HUD Office of Native American Programs. The survey was designed and implemented by Big Water and completed by 23 of the 32 UNAHA members. Data collected in the survey served as a catalyst for discussion of the various challenges faced by tribal housing entities in their efforts to identify and appropriately respond to to the use of methamphetamine in their units.