"The Mission of the Pathways Organization is to work together with all interested parties to reduce poverty within the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa.  We will strive to build upon the inherent strengths of individuals, and of our community as a whole, to improve the sense of inclusion, economic strength, community infrastructure, educational attainment, health status, and cultural assets of our people, to prepare our community to thrive in diverse, multicultural society."

Pathways to Prosperity is the product of a partnership between the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians and the Northwest Area Foundation. The partnership began in 2003, when staff of the Foundation visited the Reservation to determine whether our Tribe had the will and the potential to launch a major effort to reduce poverty on our Reservation and the adjacent Tribal lands. Since that time, we have worked together as a community with the goal of creating a plan to leverage the Foundation's resources, and our own assets, to end the poverty that afflicts more than one-third of our Tribal members. This Plan is the culmination of those efforts.