How Unpacking Layered Challenges is Strengthening Local Businesses in New Orleans
In New Orleans, a city usually humming with tourists, COVID-19 altered the small business scene in ways no one could have anticipated. But when StayLocal, Greater New Orleans’ independent business alliance, surveyed businesses across sectors, it turned out the...
Skip the Door-Busting Mobs and Chill Your Holiday with Plaid Friday or Cider Monday
by Caroline Tremblay, The Daily Yonder November 23, 2021 New Hampshire’s rural Monadnock Region is challenging locals to spend where they live with a post-Thanksgiving event called Plaid Friday. It’s a lighthearted alternative to Black Friday, meant to ease the...
Eat, Drink, and Be Local: Year-End Sales
How can we continue to promote Shop Indie Local during the last days of 2021 and into the new year?
Valentine’s Day: Show the Local Love
This Valentine’s Day, show your “local love” — love for your sweetie and your whole community — by purchasing gifts (or gift-making supplies) and meals (or ingredients) at locally owned businesses.