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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.
Help Your Community Find Black-Owned Businesses
Shop Black-Owned Business Month is just around the corner. Looking for ideas on how to participate?
Grow the Shop Indie Local Movement
Grow AMIBA’s Shop Indie Local program, a year-round movement to grow more local, equitable, and inclusive economies.
Resilient Local Economies Spring 2022 Internship
Join American Independent Business Alliance (AMIBA), the Sustainable Business Network (SBN) of MA,...
11/11/21 Recap: Local Leaders Roundtable: Local Hive: Accessing City Funding
The Local Leaders Roundtable met on November 11 to share ideas and experiences on accessing city...
Call for Partners: Shop Black-Owned
We invite you to partner with us to grow our Shop Black-Owned Campaign in February.
10/14/21 Recap: Local Leaders Roundtable: What’s New at AMIBA: Shop Indie Local
The Local Leaders Roundtable met on October 14 to learn about all the new features of Shop Indie...
Small Business Rising Social Media and Digital Toolkit
Small Business Rising’s (SBR) biweekly social media toolkit provides social media content for...
Industry News Feed
New Report: Amazon’s Toll Road
Amazon’s Toll Road report finds that Amazon is exploiting its position as a gatekeeper to impose steep fees on third-party sellers.
Move Your Money Podcast
Good for Michigan's People First Economy created a two-part mini-podcast highlighting their Move Your Money campaign. This campaign was created to spread awareness around the importance of keeping your money locally, the impacts of our current financial system, and...
Small Business Anti-Displacement Network
Small businesses are a vital part of economically healthy, socially vibrant, and environmentally sustainable communities. AMIBA is proud to partner with the Small Business Anti-Displacement Network (SBAN). We are eager to share their recently released brown paper that...
Businesses Tell of the Impacts of Facing Amazon
From Cambridge Day As Amazon prioritizes delivery speed and low prices, often at the cost of its employees’ well-being, many bricks-and-mortar businesses feel they can’t compete. But cutting delivery times isn’t the only way Amazon gets ahead: Some business owners...
Upper Valley Restaurants Take On Delivery Apps
From the Valley News In what amounts to a David-versus-Goliath challenge, a new Upper Valley home delivery startup wants to deliver your lunch or dinner, groceries, dog food and a wide variety of other items purchased from local retailers directly to your door. Read...
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