Expertise: Building Community Infrastructures for Economic Development

Years of work within Indian Reservations, Alaska Native Villages, Urban Indian Communities, and Washington, D.C. provides the Tomhave Group with a unique understanding of how physical, legal and political infrastructures of Native Americans predicate the economic development of entire regions.

The Tomhave Group Provides Special Expertise in:

Transportation and Community Facilities Funding
Solid Waste Management in Indian Country
Tribal Energy Development
Tribal Health Systems
Tribal Justice Systems
Federal Indian Law
Public Lands Law
Environmental Law

EXAMPLES FOR GOVERNMENT CLIENTS

Legislative Advocacy: Achieved authorization for new tribal bridge and transit programs worth $115 million through the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act of 2005.

Appropriations Work: Obtained nearly $25 million since Fiscal Year 2004 for road and
bridge improvements within the Navajo Nation.

Sustainable Funding Strategies: Developed recommendations on how to leverage multi-jurisdictional resources for tribal participants in U.S. Department of Justice Weed and Seed Program.

Inter-Governmental Mediation: Brokered agreement between federal and tribal departments to resolve administrative fee dispute that held hostage road construction for the Oak Springs and Pine Springs Chapters of the Navajo Nation.

Conflict Resolution: Engineered community support and government investment in a Public Health Assessment to address the Cahto tribe’s concerns about possible environmental and health risks on the Laytonville Rancheria.

EXAMPLES FOR CORPORATE CLIENTS

The Tomhave Group developed customized research and market analysis of commercial
opportunity within Indian Country for Regenat U.S.A. Holding, a New York corporation with
international subsidiaries. Regenat holds patents on portable ovens that recycle timber and wood
waste into both clean electricity and biomass fuel by products (such as household and industrial
charcoal). The Tomhave Group researched the federal funding available for implementation of
Regenat’s technology within tribal communities; the jurisdictional issues involved in siting and
selling such technology on federal trust land; and the feasibility of corporate-tribal partnerships.

EXAMPLES FOR ORGANIZATIONAL CLIENTS

Grants Procurement: Developed comprehensive report on available public and private
funds for rural health care administration and delivery by San Juan Counseling, a not for
profit mental health agency within San Juan County, Utah.

Public Policy Strategy: Identified legislative opportunity, wrote bill language, and created
national coalition to support the objective of the National Native American AIDS
Prevention Center to enable American Indians and Alaska Natives with HIV/AIDS to
access federally funded care and treatment.

Meeting Facilitation: Planned, organized and facilitated first national meeting of state,
tribal and non-profit partners of the National Native American AIDS Prevention Center to
promulgate federal policy recommendations that the Tomhave Group got included in the
Manager’s amendment to reauthorize the Ryan White CARE Act.

Management Training: Hosted Indian Women Leaders seminar aboard the Presidential
Yacht Sequoia that featured federal insiders who shared insights from Congress and the
Administration about how to penetrate and profit from the federal funding process.
Provided one on one training on media relations and political networking.

Media Relations: Wrote and placed daily press briefings in national media outlets for the
National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development 2004 Reservation Economic
Summit.

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