Minnesota Indigenous Business Alliance

BUY NATIVE STATEWIDE CAMPAIGN - MNIBA continues its Buy Native Campaign messages to keep our native business and artists in the public eye and continues testing different models to get them introduced to new customers/clients and created tools that entrepreneurs are using to diversify their marketing strategies. MNIBA launched its Buy Native online interactive business directory. MNIBA continues to deploy a marketing strategy locally, regionally, and nationally.

NATIVE ARTS - hosted Native arts events, MNIBA is being called upon as a trusted resource to recruit artists for gallery events, boothing, art demonstration's, art education, and funding opportunities, and have referred Native artists throughout the state in response to these inquiries. The Native arts are led by Native artists and redesigned in a way that decentralizes institutional modes of power and systemic racism. Native artists, Native-led organizations serving artists, and creatives have been touched through surveys, attending virtual presentations, referrals, email and telephone communications, interviews, photoshoots, newsletter, website, and social media platforms.