Community Development & Stewardship
Events and Informative Talks.
The Legacy Fund values opportunities to share its work with visitors, stakeholders, and the local community through informative talks. As a part of many of our partnerships, we coordinate short activities with their staff and visitors like:
Visits to tree nurseries;
Educational talks on the conservation challenges facing Patagonia;
Trail narrative trainings with guides;
Presentations at local community events and forums.
Recycling.
In 2015 the Legacy Fund donated $6,000 for the purchase of 15 containers for plastics and aluminum recycling which were installed in 2016 at plazas and schools throughout the city. With the addition of subterranean containers purchased by the Municipality, Puerto Natales now boasts a total of 14 puntos verdes for plastics and aluminum recycling that are collected on a weekly basis. After only a year of implementation, Puerto Natales experienced a 600% increase in recycling, diverting almost 250,000 kg of waste from the city’s overcrowded landfill.
Galpón Cultural Center - Original Launch (2014)
Overlooking the Golfo Almirante Montt, the Galpón is located in the historic Braun-Blanchard warehouse. In 1919, local leaders gathered here to orchestrate the “Worker’s Revolt in Puerto Bories and Puerto Natales” - a meeting that would ignite the 1920’s Patagonian Rebellion.
With the assistance of Fundación Patagonia, the Galpón was renovated and donated works from seven Chilean artists were featured in its grand opening in December 2014, which was supported by the Legacy Fund. The space has since hosted 10 exhibits and symposia, hosts theater, music and dance performances and is home to a local sustainable wool boutique Le Mouton Vert. Today, the Galpón has blossomed into an incredible co-working space and entrepreneurship hub that works to incubate projects that help establish a local circular economy.