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.
Top 5 Reasons to Choose a Community Bank or Credit Union
At local banks and credit unions, loan approvals and other key decisions are made locally by people who live in the community, have face-to-face relationships with their customers, and understand local needs.
Make Ripples: Choose Indie Local
Choose an Indie Local (independent and locally owned business) and that positive ripple effect magnifies. Let’s make ripples!
Call for Partners: Choose Black-Owned Month
We invite you to partner with us to grow our Choose Black-Owned Campaign in February.
Our Six Degrees of Separation from Kevin Bacon
Actor Kevin Bacon supported our Shift Your Shopping for Good promotion in 2013. Thanks to the work of our core organizing team, we garnered amazing media attention through this hilarious video starring Melvin Macon.
2022 Independent Business Survey: Top Challenges and Policy Priorities
ILSR’s 2022 Independent Business Survey looks at market concentration in our economy and how it is impacting independent business owners.