Giving Voice to Our Native Nonprofits

The Marianas Alliance of Non-Governmental Organizations (MANGO) will build the capacity of nonprofit organizations that serve Native communities so that they can effectively participate in long-term public and private evaluation, planning, and development efforts to maximize delivery of crucial and sustainable services to the Native communities in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI). Most CNMI nonprofits lack capacity to participate in or assist high-level community development planning that affects the physical and economic health of the Native community they serve. To that end, MANGO will teach nonprofits how to use the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) framework as a primary planning tool for providing services to the Native community; help them implement the framework in their organizations; and help them document and share measured results in addressing SDGs with community development planning partners in the nonprofit, private, and public sectors.