Category Archives: Economic Development

From the first conference we attended, to joining the organization as a corporate partner, through this past week at the 34th Annual Conference, we continue to be impressed with NAFOA. We are proud to be associated with such a strong, dedicated organization.

As a landlocked son of the Midwest, I am anything but a surfer. But even a Kansas City boy has heard of the famous “pipeline”— the surfing mecca found on Oahu’s North Shore.

Amid the ongoing battles between the White House and Capitol Hill, it’s sometimes difficult to know what to make of a presidential budget. Some people will dismiss the document out of hand as politically impossible.

This is our last time looking back on 2015.

While my Travois colleagues in Kansas City undoubtedly count the Royals’ World Series win as the highlight from 2015, I took a different route when I reflected on the past 12 months.

2015 was a landmark year for Travois, and we hope for many of you. We celebrated our 20th anniversary, and our clients had milestone achievements — most notably the highest pricing ever paid to a tribal project ($1.

Is climate change the gravest threat the world has ever faced or the greatest business opportunity of the 21st century? Both, it appears.

What a fun year 2015 has been!

While visiting the Colville Indian Reservation for the grand opening of the housing authority’s third Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) project, we couldn’t pass up the chance to see the newly finished tribal government building in Nespelem, WA.

In our 20 years in business, we’ve been fortunate to work with extremely dedicated and hard working individuals. And even better, when a group of individuals comes together and truly works as a team to meet common goals, they produce incredible results.