Company Culture

Dipping Spoon is an Indigenous Yup’ik, Black & Woman Founded Non-Profit Hospitality Agency servicing the luxury needs of our future beneficiaries, Indigenous Youth and Women.

Dipping Spoon

What is a Luxury Non-Profit Hospitality Agency?

Dipping Spoon is an Indigenous Woman founded Non-Profit Hospitality Agency Empowering the Next Generation of Indigenous Youth to become Culinary Rockstars. We envision a global world where all Indigenous Women and Youth champion their culture, ancestral blueprint to rebel against institutional boundaries to become  entrepreneurial culinary rockstars through Food, Science, Media, Sports, Design and Foreign Policy in the Public and Private Sector. 

We lead firmly anchored in our ancestral blueprint and believe lived experiences are change making superpowers.  Our agency is keen on what the world would look like without the bold creativity, flavors and design of Indigenous peoples and artisans. The land creates us. We are rare. We are mysteriously special, daringly observant, creators of the day and night, our ancestors' spirits live, create and design within us. From one dip we serve all Indigenous Youth, we dip into the water, the water is given to everybody, it grows and keeps going. 

Dipping Spoon’s work is fluid and ever evolving. Beyond and behind our mission and student programming, there are trend savvy social impact experts hunting, gathering, researching and executing. We operate from a seasonal and hospitality business lens, trends come and go, but the people we service remains constant. When we stay ahead of the curve and adapt our mission, we are able to keep the needs of our students and all Indigenous Youth at the top.

FAQs

  • Dipping Spoon’s pyramid reflects our cultural values and serves as a compass for our leadership style, which is the empowerment and support of the community, not commander in chiefs. Indigenous Youth are important. The next most important are the School Educators and Support Team as they’re the ones closest to our students, etc.

    Dipping Spoon Inverted Pyramid

    Indigenous Youth Come First

    1. Youth/Students

    2. School Educators & Support Team

    3. Department Managers/Program Coordinators

    4. Regional & Corporate Directors

    5. CEO, Executive Team, Board of Directors

    Our corporate team starts at the bottom and works our way up the Inverted Pyramid. The work we do is for the greater good of our students, Indigenous Youth Come First. This allows our Non-Profit to always keep the mission, needs and experiences of our students at the top.

  • Our Umbrella Philosophy is simple, the corporate team Makes It Rain First. Due to the lack of access, representation and cultural identity in all the avenues food touches, we work our way down the Umbrella and execute. As the rain falls, we are able to do behind the scenes work and ask questions which challenge food industry norms’. We identify the problems, develop creative and innovative solutions, bring to our market and sell. We create access. Who is our customer? Indigenous Youth Come First. Anchored in our Umbrella, Indigenous Youth. When we hold the Umbrella, we are servicing our future beneficiaries in the palm of our hand.

    Dipping Spoon Umbrella Philosophy

    Make It Rain First

    1. CEO, Executive Team, Board of Directors

    2. Regional & Corporate Directors

    3. Department Managers/Program Coordinators

    4. School Educators & Support Team

    5. Youth/Students

  • Side by side, the Inverted Pyramid and Umbrella Philosophy work in tandem with one another. The Dipping Spoon Flow chart is fluid, you work your way up and then dip your way down, all points of access leading to Indigenous Youth and Students.

    The Dipping Spoon Flow reminds us that our assets are Indigenous Youth.

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We envision a global world where all Indigenous youth champion their culture, ancestral blueprint to rebel against institutional boundaries to become  entrepreneurial culinary rockstars through Food, Science, Media, Sports, Design and Foreign Policy in the Public and Private Sector. 

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What will make executing our mission sustainable?

The best way for our non-profit agency to maintain the mission, needs and experiences of our students is to ensure the people working on the issue full-time may continue the work. Indigenous Youth Come First.

Did you know only o.4% of total Philanthropic dollars are dedicated to Native communities?

Giving to Dipping Spoon means Stakeholders are not only investing in the next generation of Indigenous Youth to become Culinary Rockstars, it means they are giving our promising mission and vision seed money for continued pilot testing, research and development.

Equity leads to Empowerment. Empowerment of Native Women. Empowerment of Native Youth. Empowerment in Education. Empowerment in Income Levels. We Make It Rain.

What does a sustainable mission and team look like?

We aim to recruit individuals who chose to build, create and collaborate in all the avenues which food touches and grow a Non-Profit pass Incubation Stage. Dipping Spoon’s work and programming requires hiring Corporate Talent, Social Impact Entrepreneurs and Industry Experts who are curious, demand excellence and understand fundamentals; lived-in experts and teammates with a passion for creating access for the next generation of Indigenous Youth Culinary Rockstars through Food, Science, Media, Sports, Design and Foreign Policy in the Public and Private Sector. Enjoying Food & Culture is a must!

As we scale, our Founder and CEO, is dipping into what makes a company thrive, the Rockstars behind the scenes. In addition to our CEO, she is actively recruiting talent for future: Chief of Operations, Culinary Director, Curriculum Director, Chief Financial Officer, Director of Development, Senior Grant Manager, Grant Writer, Communication & Social Media Director, Program Director, Territory Coordinators and Intern. Storytellers who Champion Culture and Rebel Against Boundaries.

Share your talents with us while we raise capital to execute Dipping Spoon’s Educational Programming, Fundraising and Business Strategy.

Feel like dippng in? Email an intro to info@dippingspoon.com and say hello! We’d love to meet you!