NMTC financing for the renovation and expansion of the Minneapolis American Indian Center (MAIC), a nonprofit community center in the heart of the American Indian community of Minneapolis providing comprehensive programs and services for Native American children, youth, adults, elders and families. One of the first urban American Indian Centers in the country, MAIC was founded in 1975 to provide services otherwise unavailable for urban American Indians. They serve a large and tribally diverse urban American Indian population that numbers over 35,000 in the eleven-county Minneapolis-St. Paul metro areas. MAIC programs include social services and advocacy for children, youth, and families; comprehensive youth development programming; elder’s services; employment training and job placement services; and health promotion through physical activity and nutrition education. MAIC hosts Pow-wows, feasts, community forums, health fairs, sports events, and tribal voting, and is visited by more that 10,000 people every year. Their programs promote the goals of self-determination, dignity, equity, sustainability, and preserving and sharing cultural traditions..