Celebrating 15 years of innovation!

YOUR SUPPORT IS VITAL 

We are asking for your support to help us raise $15,000 to grow Native-led entrepreneurship in our communities.

As MNIBA celebrates this 15-year milestone, we look back on what we have built together - from being Minnesota's first Native Business Alliance to the evolution of becoming a Native change maker and co-creator in a new conversation focused on abundance and looking at the accumulation of the gifts, skills, talents and strengths of everything and everyone that makes up our communities and how that contributes to the diversity of a strong, healthy Native economy that works for all!

UNITY IN INNOVATION

Reflecting on our journey, the dedication and innovation of our team members and partners - past and present - has been fundamental to our ability to deliver tools, training, and supports that are Native-designed and informed. Our collective efforts have shaped a new conversation and approaches to building strong and diverse Native economies that work for all.

THE POWER OF PARTNERSHIPS

Over the last fifteen years, we’ve joined hands with countless Native entrepreneurs, artists, organizations and communities, a collaboration that has enriched us and made our solutions more culturally centered and effective.

BUILDING ABUNDANCE IN NATIVE COMMUNITIES THROUGH ASSET MAPPING

MNIBA has intentionally chosen a pathway to community and economic development that is a “people-centered” change process, facilitated with a community of Native change-makers to build capacity and to actualize their own dreams, and enhance the quality of their work in the communities they serve, and those of the wider community they are a part of.

The Abundance-based approach identifies and maps community assets and moves away from the consequences of “needs-based” and "scarcity" approaches.  Native-led, Native-designed, and Native-informed change making focuses on the importance of relationships, building trust and capacity, to ensure that our cultural lifeways and values are woven into the very weft and warp of the work the community is co-creating.  

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