Foundation Mixtecos Unidos

Makign a meal

Our Mission

Our mission is to preserve the Mixteco people and culture while providing educational and economic opportunities for self-sufficiency.

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Our Values

Stoic - We embrace and celebrate the journey as the destination, as obstacles arise so shall answers. We are a master of our resources, we use our culture, knowledge, and surroundings to build a better community.


Altruistic - We Do Good. We believe in true and direct honesty with ourselves and those we interact with.


Democracy - Everyone has a voice and a vote, none is worth more than the other.


Worker Cooperative - We believe in a democratic workplace where the worker controls and owns their output.


Equity - We believe in a community of not just equality but equity, we prop ourselves and those around us up to enjoy the same opportunities we do.


Standard of living - We believe everyone has the right to the labor that grants them a meal, a home, and education.


Opportunity - We believe everyone deserves the opportunity to provide for themselves and an education.

The artesanos with their new fiber.

5 Year Plan (By 2029)

1 Year end of 2023

  • A Completed website with social media activity, newsletter, regular donors, and following.

  • Baskets have 10 wholesale vendors that are helping us sell the baskets.

  • Begin Selling other merchandise such as apparel.

  • Explore agriculture as a means of more profit for the foundation.

  • Expand our School and education to more communities

  • Add more communities to the foundation

  • Find more partnerships for the Foundation

  • School of Music, School of Language, School of Sports, 

  • Extend our schools for adult education

  • Financial independence for our Foundation

  • Get to 100 Artesanos regular work

  • Automate for a wholesale friendly system

  • Systemize all sales and bookkeeping to protect ourselves and the foundation.


2 Year

  • Sell Baskets, Hats, Shirts, Shoes, and Pants.

  • Triple our vendors to 30 Wholesale vendors.

  • Have concerts for students

  • Have speech contests for our students

  • School of Math, School of Science, and School of Culture/History

  • Begin our Agricultural plans to provide a valued affordable crop and foods to the local community

  • Have enough regular donors to pay all costs of the Foundation

  • Expand our School and education to more communities

  • Add more communities to the foundation

  • Find more partnerships for the Foundation

  • Financial independence for our Foundation

  • Maintain Financial automation

  • Maintain and update Inventory and store automations

  • Get to 300 Artesanos Regular work

3 Year

  • Get to 60 Wholesale vendors 

  • Expand our School and education to more communities

  • Find new and interesting ways to develop our children's development in their schools

  • Expand and continue our Agricultural Plans

  • Have enough regular donors to pay all costs of the Foundation

  • Add more communities to the foundation

  • Find more partnerships for the Foundation

  • Financial independence for our Foundation

  • Maintain Financial automation

  • Maintain and update Inventory and store automations

  • Get to 1000 Artesanos regular work

  • More to be determined


4 Year

  • Reach 100 Wholesale vendors

  • Expand our School and education to more communities

  • Execute our Agricultural plan

  • Find new and interesting ways to develop our children's development in their schools

  • Have enough regular donors to pay all costs of the Foundation

  • Add more communities to the foundation

  • Find more partnerships for the Foundation

  • Financial independence for our Foundation

  • 2000 artesanos with regular work

  • Maintain Financial automation

  • Maintain and update Inventory and store automations

  • More to be determined


5 Year 

  • Reach 150 Wholesale vendors

  • Expand our School and education to more communities

  • Execute our Agricultural plan

  • Find new and interesting ways to develop our children's development in their schools

  • Have enough regular donors to pay all costs of the Foundation

  • Add more communities to the foundation

  • Find more partnerships for the Foundation

  • Financial independence for our Foundation

  • 5000 Artesanos with regular work

  • Maintain Financial automation

  • Maintain and update Inventory and store automations

  • More to be determined

Strategy and Focus

Business

Create a simple and efficient Point of Sale and inventory system that provides for the simplest and most efficient logistical approach to selling and ordering baskets.


Regularly contact our legal team to make sure we are properly fulfilling our needs in our obligations as a 501c3.


Be tenacious and gritty in recruiting our wholesale vendors that will sell the baskets and other merchandise more regularly, and simply place an order. 


Donations

Be disciplined and diligent in our approach to recruiting new donors.


Build our website authority, expand our online reach via social Media, building an email list, newsletter, and by marketing it in person.

Production

We expand our Artesanos to our needs as we sell more merchandise.


We expand our ability to acquire fiber and systemize it to be more efficient.


Schools

We must hire and provide proper facilities, equipment, and supplies to allow our students to flourish. 


We will be efficient and effective with our money so that we can help as many people as possible while not cutting corners.


Recruiting

Recruit great teachers to provide a quality education in our School.


More Artesanos to help the quality and quantity of our product grow and give them more income.


Find more people to donate regularly both their time and money.