Maine Voices: COVID-battered local businesses need Congress to step up
AMIBA Board of Directors member and Portland Buy Local Executive Director Mary Alice Scott wrote this great opinion piece for the Portland Press Herald. Chances are, it fits your community, too. Have you done a survey like the one Portland Buy Local conducted? If you do, make sure you share the results with your local […]
Building A Bridge to Impact: Developing & leveraging public sector relationships. With Colin Murray, Dane Buy Local
Cross-posted from wiseeconomy.com An AccelerateUs: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Local Industrial Revolution conversation. How do your get your independent business alliance from normal to distributing $10 Million in grants… in three weeks? You cultivate trusting relationships with your elected officials and staff, starting years before. That’s what Dane Buy Local and Executive Director Colin Murray […]
Technology FTW: practical ways to communicate with your community and promote your businesses
Cross-posted from wiseeconomy.com An AccelerateUs: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Local Industrial Revolution conversation. How do you get the news about your local businesses out to everyone when everything changes every day? How do you keep a few hundred business owners up to date on a fire hose stream of new regulations, new requirements, new procedures […]
Take the helm of your local economy: the present and future of the American Independent Business Alliance (AMIBA)
Cross-posted from wiseeconomy.com In January 2020, I agreed to help my longtime colleague Derek Peebles with his efforts to revitalize and reposition the organization that helped create the Buy Local movement. For me, this was an opportunity to help advance thinking and doing around the creation of resilient local economies, a central theme of my first […]