Eat Indie Local: Feeding the Movement with Creative Initiatives
Cultivating the Eat Indie Local movement through grassroots initiatives and nationwide partnerships. Join us this August!
Walking Tours Get a Radical Makeover, Focusing on People’s Histories
Instead of kings, plutocrats, and generals, a new kind of historical walking tour focuses on the people they repressed, and tells a more complete story. Reposted from YES! Magazine. By Marianne Dhenin. On an overcast morning in early May, a group of visitors mills...
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...
Grow the Choose Indie Local Movement
Grow AMIBA’s Shop Indie Local program, a year-round movement to grow more local, equitable, and inclusive economies.
The Local Multiplier Effect: How Independent Locally Owned Businesses Help Your Community Thrive
As your dollars move through your community, the money generates more local wealth, charitable contributions, and jobs.
Unfulfilled: Amazon and the American Retail Landscape
A new report from Civic Economics: Unfulfilled: Amazon and the American Retail Landscape builds a deep understanding of how Amazon affects small businesses and communities across the nation — and how those impacts have changed over the years.