Oregon IDA Initiative

Building and sustaining a business requires a lot of support. Through the Microenterprise
program at Native American and Youth Family Center (NAYA) and with help from an IDA,
Tanya Golden is cultivating a business, Golden Tradition Saffron Company, that achieves her
vision of work that is dignified and self-sufficient.

Tanya Golden grew up working with plants and observing her mother’s entrepreneurial efforts. As an adult with two daughters, Golden developed her own ways of making money, making and selling chocolate truffles, and preparing natural medicines.