Take the Indie Challenge
This July, celebrate Independents Month by signing on to the Indie Challenge today! Pledge to buy only from locally owned businesses for a day, week, or more — you choose.
Choose Indie Local Provides Connections and Convenience
By Roman Mukendi, AMIBA Resilient Local Economies Intern After a long period of business disruption and home confinement (lockdowns) due to COVID, people now crave meaningful connections across all facets of life—including commerce. As you may know, a physical...
Choose Indie Local – A Force for Social Impact
By Roman Mukendi, AMIBA Resilient Local Economies Intern Independent small businesses are enterprises that make multi-social impacts on the community. Social impacts mean “any significant or positive change that solves or at least addresses social injustice and...
Make Ripples: Choose Indie Local
Choose an Indie Local (independent and locally owned business) and that positive ripple effect magnifies. Let’s make ripples!
Leveraging Indie Impact Studies
At the core of every Choose Indie Local campaign is amplifying the local multiplier effect — documented by Civic Economics Indie Impact Studies Series. Matt Cunningham, a partner at Civic Economics, offered advice on leveraging the multiplier effect and the...
Bicycling Means Business
May is National Bike Month. Let’s focus on how bicycling means business!