Four programs · One standard
What the Foundation actually does
The four programs share one objective: that an Indigenous business can grow and stand on its own. The road has four stretches and a company can travel all of it or enter where it belongs. Each stretch ends in something verifiable: a registry entry with consent, a legal incorporation, a certification with a public code, a supply agreement.
Registering ventures
The Foundation invites the ventures and companies of Chile's Indigenous peoples to join a national registry. Signing up is free, it is digital, and it is open to people of the eleven recognized peoples. Signing up publishes the profile with the data the company declared, and the Directory says so on every profile. A company reaches the Registered level once the Foundation verifies its Indigenous leadership against Article 5 of the Regulation and its tax registration.
Formalization
Many ventures cannot invoice a large company because they are not yet a company. The Foundation supports that step: legal form, incorporation, registration with the tax authority, and designing a business model with cultural relevance.
Sello Empresa Indígena, the Seal
The certification. A committee verifies against documents that at least 50% of the capital is Indigenous, and that management and control are as well. If it approves, the company receives a Unique Verification Code anyone can check on the Seal's site without asking permission from anybody.
Strategic alliances
The other side of the bridge. The Foundation works with large corporations, international bodies and allies so that there is real demand for suppliers with a verified level, which is what holds up everything above.
The sentence that orders the work
In the Mapuche language there was no word for poor. To say it we had to borrow a Spanish word and bend it, which is why we said “pofre”. Poverty was something the Mapuche People did not know, and something we must leave behind today.
And it is not said only here
Indigenous peoples are not vulnerable because something is missing in us; that word limits our capacity to move forward. What we lack is opportunity, what we lack is possibility, what we lack is to be seen with the right eyes.
Indigenous Peoples have taken part in international trade for millennia. In modern economies, Indigenous businesses have shown remarkable resilience with enormous growth potential.
The next step
If you are a company of the Indigenous peoples, the first stretch is the registry and it costs nothing.
If you buy for an organization, the conversation starts by email and continues with data.