Canadian Council for Indigenous Business

**Vision** Indigenous businesses are fully engaged in shaping the Canadian economy. **Mission** To promote, strengthen and enhance a prosperous Indigenous economy through the fostering of business relationships, opportunities and awareness for all our members. **About** Helping build respectful, mutually beneficial business relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous businesses has been a long journey for CCIB that began in 1982 when a group of diverse business leaders came together to discuss their shared responsibility in improving Indigenous participation in the country’s economy. The organization was established in 1984 and shifted focus over the years as needs were prioritized. One of the first offerings was a national scholarship and bursary program to assist youth entering business programs and an internship program that started as a joint project between the organization and the federal government to equip young Indigenous professionals with business skills. The flagship Partnership Accreditation in Indigenous Relations (PAIR formally PAR) was an innovative certification program to benchmark corporate performance in Indigenous relations and continues to help transform workplaces today. A highly respected research department was established to provide fact-based evidence that economic reconciliation could not be achieved without Indigenous participation in all sectors of business. The Supply Change program was introduced to help overcome barriers to economic reconciliation in procurement. Today Canadian Council for Indigenous Business provides more than 2,500 members, including more than 1,300 Certified Indigenous Businesses, with programming, tools, training, network-building, business awards, research, advocacy and national and regional events to advance economic reconciliation across the country and keep Indigenous entrepreneurs positioned for growth.