Native American Leadership Fund Established

We are excited to announce we have continued to surpass our fundraising goal of $25,000 for the 6th Annual P.A.D. Founders’ Day of Giving with $31,543 donated.

Thank you to our donors and supporters for making this a record-breaking year in support of P.A.D. www.PAD.org/2022DonorHonorRoll

As part of last week’s success, a new fund was established by International Secretary, Concetta Tsosie de Haro - The Native American Leadership Fund, established to help further P.A.D. diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. Contributions to the Native American Leadership Fund will provide direct assistance to Native American Phi Alpha Delta members or those members who are dedicated to practicing Native American law to attend leadership events.

Please join us in thanking our P.A.D. Sister for not only establishing this grant but supplying its initial funding in honor of P.A.D.’s 120th anniversary. To donate to the fund, please visit www.PAD.org/donations/donate.asp?id=22362

We are also pleased to make this announcement during National Native American Heritage Month this November.

A proclamation from the White House, “We celebrate Indigenous peoples past and present and rededicate ourselves to honoring Tribal sovereignty, promoting Tribal self-determination, and upholding the United States’ solemn trust and treaty responsibilities to Tribal Nations.

America has not always delivered on its promise of equal dignity and respect for Native Americans.  For centuries, broken treaties, dispossession of ancestral lands, and policies of assimilation and termination sought to decimate Native populations and their ways of life.  But despite this painful history, Indigenous peoples, their governments, and their communities have persevered and flourished.  As teachers and scholars, scientists and doctors, writers and artists, business leaders and elected officials, heroes in uniform, and so much more, they have made immeasurable contributions to our country’s progress.”

For the full proclamation, please visit https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2022/10/31/a-proclamation-on-national-native-american-heritage-month-2022/