Ohlone Tribe

The Beginning of Progress Starts Here

About

Since 2013, the Ohlone Chumash Tribe has been providing technical assistance, project financing, management, and other resources to the tribal communities across the United States. We partner with cities, municipalities, and tribal factions to help elevate tribal communities through guidance in entrepreneurship, job training, and other resources that promote independence and self-sufficiency for community members.

The Ohlone Chumash Tribe

Original People of the San Francisco Peninsula

Mission

To make available education and economic development resources to all tribal communities in our efforts to improve the quality of life for all Native Americans and others.

Vision

To be the conduit that helps eradicate the barriers that have divided and prevented tribal communities from thriving.

Our Why

Native Americans make up a disproportionate number of underrepresented and marginalized communities; consequences of the history of devastating legacies—from displacement, poverty, and economic disadvantages to segregated education and unequal criminal justice involvement due to substance abuse and domestic violence, these disparities are directly connected to imposed strategies that have been oppressive with disproportionate impacts that have been successfully divisive and have created deep roots of distrust amongst the various Native American Factions as well as those of non-Native American descent.

The lack of stakeholder representation with lived experience has created a charity-based deficit model for the majority of Native American Factions. The Ohlone Tribe of Carmel First Settlers of Chino Valley has taken on the tasks of changing the trajectory for all Tribes as well as others; implementing a more equity-focused model that includes training leaders, supplying technical support, showing and sharing resources specific to the needs of our program participants, and traditional and nontraditional funding sources. The Ohlone are able to do this through our expert knowledge base, trusted community partners, and the Tribal CDFI.

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Our Approach

The Ohlone Tribe offers a multi-pillar approach to combatting and changing the trajectory of Native American people. There are many Factions, yet one Nation, a Nation rich in diversity, and culture: a resilient people. We see equity as a four pegged instrument in approaching initiatives that can begin to rewrite the history for many Native American Tribes:

Mobilize

Invite and embrace a community of Native Americans (Diverse Factions), and others with shared and lived experiences in the areas of injustices that plague

Identify

Common goals and those goals that are specific to the tribal participant’s mission, wrapped with hosted trust-building activities

Support

Train, Equip, and Plan. We walk alongside our program participants from start to conception and equip providers with tools for the greatest achievement of success.

Execute

We aid in developing a moves management matrix that serves as a blueprint for our participants to scale their respective endeavors as seamlessly as possible.

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Natural Disaster Event - Rancho Cucamonga, CA

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Natural Disaster Event - Rancho Cucamonga, CA

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Natural Disaster Event - Rancho Cucamonga, CA

Natural Disaster Event - Ontario, CA

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Natural Disaster Event - Ontario, CA

Natural Disaster Event - Ontario, CALI

Natural Disaster Event - Ontario, CA

Natural Disaster Event - Ontario

Homelessness Event

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Homelessness Event

Homelessness Event Ohlone Tribe Rancho Cucamonga Ontario, CA

All Girl Event | Sponsor: Femma360/Ohlone Tribe

All Girl Event

Senior Citizen Event

Cal State San Bernardino

5th street Senior Center San Bernardino

Perris Senior Center

OC Wine & Spirit Fest

Pico Event

Listos California

Living Way Mission Event

Listos California

American Red Cross

Partnerships

Guiding Principles

Integrity – We are locked in honesty and moral principles

Respect – We engage others with kindness, understanding, and humility

Advocacy – We promote the values and practice of diversity, equity, and inclusion in all that we do on behalf of others

Altruism – We are concerned about the well-being, happiness, and quality of life of others.

Education – We believe education opens the world for students. We aim to educate all of our participants so that they may make calculated decisions that will benefit them.

Bringing California Home

California Department of Housing and Community Development

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Building Standards (/building-standards-hcd)

Planning & Community Development (/planning-and-community-development)

Policy & Research (/policy-and-research)

About HCD (/about-hcd)

Homekey is an opportunity for state, regional, and local public entities to develop a broad range of housing types, including but not limited to hotels, motels, hostels, single-family homes and multifamily apartments, adult residential facilities, and manufactured housing, and to convert commercial properties and other existing buildings to Permanent or Interim Housing for the Target Population.

History of Tribe

The Ohlone Chumash Tribe, formerly known as Costanoans (from Spanish costeño meaning ‘coast dweller’), are a Native American people of the Northern California coast. When Spanish explorers and missionaries arrived in the late 18th century, the Ohlone inhabited the area along the coast from San Francisco Bay through Monterey Bay,

However, the arrival of Spanish colonizers to the area in 1769 vastly changed tribal life forever. The Spanish constructed missions along the California coast with the objective of Christianizing the native people and culture. Between the years 1769 and 1834, the number of Indigenous Californians dropped from 300,000 to 250,000. After California entered the Union in 1850, the state government perpetrated massacres against the Ohlone people. Many of the leaders of these massacres were rewarded with positions in state and federal government. These massacres have been described as genocide. Many are now leading a push for cultural and historical recognition of their tribe and what they have gone through and had taken from them.

The Ohlone living today belong to one or another of a number of geographically distinct groups, most, but not all, in their original home territory.

What We Do

Technical Assistance-Business Development-Training

From training workshops, we provide training and support for Native Americans and others in their business endeavors. From start-ups to businesses that are ready to scale or apply for their first business loan, our team of highly skilled professionals have you covered.

Telecare

Through our partnerships with doctors and clinics, we are able to provide telecare to under-served Native American communities and others.

Grants

We have a team of researchers and business developers that can help identify tribal grant resources

Funding & Project Management

Through our partnerships with a Tribal CDFI and Tiger Eye Capitol Mana, the Ohlone tribe of Carmel is committed to helping the homeless community by becoming a housing navigational organization resourced with HUD and HMIS, and LAHSA.

Training Workshops

We provide job preparation, resume writing, business etiquette, and specialized job training.

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Leadership

David Vargas

David Vargas is an experienced CFO for three different tribes with 30 years of experience specializing in role development, single-family and commercial including grants made available to Native Americans.

With his federal number approved to write grants, he has been running our Cdfi nonprofit since 2013 with 30 years in finance and business, David is the direct wholesale lender for residential and commercial.

William Fernandez

William Fernandez is a disabled veteran who honorably served. He has helped many non-profits during his lifetime. His great, great-grandmother was Mescalero Apache Indian.

He is a father of 3 daughters and a grandfather of 1 grandson. He has mentored many veterans, as he understands what it’s like to serve in a combat battalion. He has done and advised on many VA home loans throughout his career.

He was born in Texas and joined the US Army out of high school. He was part of the prestigious 82nd Airborne Division at Ft Bragg, North Carolina, as well as in the 2nd Infantry Division while serving overseas in South Korea.

During his college years, he served in the U.S. Army Reserve, while also becoming Branch Manager at TransAmerica Financial Services in Hacienda Heights, CA.

He was heavily recruited to become a Sr. Loan Officer in the Commercial Lending Division at Countrywide in Pasadena and later Home Savings Loan in Beverly Hills, which became Washington Mutual.

He Later joined Empire Venture Capital, LLC. as an Intermediary with Wells Fargo in the purchase of mortgage-backed Securities. After semi-retiring, he founded Oak Knoll Consulting, LLC. Now, he truly enjoys his venture as the V.P. of Business Development for Tiger Eye Capital.

Pedro Gonzalez

Pedro Gonzalez is an experienced businessman from Los Angeles, California. He received his BS in Biology from California State University, Los Angeles, while being named Los Angeles Councilman Richard Alatorre Scholar Awardee 3 times, a TELACU Scholar, and a California State Universities: Undergraduate Research Competition State Finalist. He went on to receive his Physician Assistant degree from the prestigious university of Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science. In 2006, he was named National Physician Assistant of the Year and was the youngest ever to receive this award. He has been a contributing Editor for the American Academy of Physician Assistants and California Academy of Physician Assistants magazines. He has been a board member of the Latino Diabetes Association and numerous non-profits that feed and clothe homeless, veterans.While at Homeboy Industries, he was offered the position of COO, as he was instrumental in the fundraising and expansion of FREE Laser Tattoo Removal and Bakery Training programs for the largest gang intervention, rehab and re-entry program in the world. Pedro has received many awards including: City of Los Angeles, CA: Certificate of Appreciation for exemplary efforts; City of Lynwood, CA: Certificate of Appreciation for improving quality of life; and has been a featured individual: in multiple media outlets (ABC 7, USA Today, Despierta America, La Opinion, Orange County Register, etc