12-16-08

Tanka Bar wants you to donate to Lakota Funds
at NO EXTRA COST TO YOU!
For every box you buy, $5 goes to help other Native entrepreneurs

Hello, MySpace friends! The last mad dash of gift-giving and gift-buying is upon us. While you are making your list and, hopefully, checking it once or twice, remember us here at Tanka Bar. Tanka Bars make a great stocking stuffer and a Tanka Bar is really healthy for you. And now, when you buy Tanka Bars, a portion of your purchase can also benefit others! How many stocking stuffers can you say that about?

There are a lot of charities that have been asking for your attention lately and many people have been tightening their belts this year. I want to let you know about an organization that has benefited Native American Naturals Foods and the people of the Lakota Nation directly:

Lakota Funds
Lakota Funds is often the first and, even more likely, the only financial lender willing to invest in our local Native entrepreneurs. Without Lakota Funds, many of our Native American-owned businesses would never get started and fewer would survive.

Did you know that when Lakota Funds was founded in 1986, there were only two Native American businesses on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, and now there are hundreds? Even today, Lakota Funds is the only commercial lender located on the reservation. Lakota Funds has inspired an entrepreneurial movement where more and more of our people can see owning their own business as a real possibility. Many of our people are working hard to transform our historically impoverished community into a sustainable economy that gives our children and grandchildren opportunities instead of poverty.

For more information about how Tanka Bar has been helped by Lakota Funds, see our CEO’s letter at the bottom of this blog.

What you can do
Right now, when you purchase a Box of Tanka Bars with our special coupon code, $5 will be donated to Lakota Funds. This is a Win-Win for everyone! You get your awesome Tanka Bars at NO EXTRA COST TO YOU, we get to make money selling them to you, and Lakota Funds earns five bucks each time a purchase is made with the coupon! It doesn't seem like much, but it adds up. This is our way of supporting people who helped us get where we are today.

How to use your Coupon
Just purchase one or more boxes of Tanka Bars and, when you check out, enter the coupon code LAKFUND08 and, just like that, $5 of your purchase will be donated to helping build a stronger economy for the Lakota People.

P.S.
Even if you’re not in a position to help out right now, please repost this information far and wide. We want this to be a big boost for Lakota Funds. Wopila.

Letter from Tanka Bar CEO Karlene Hunter