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This Halloween 🎃 Choose Indie Local
Halloween is a great time to Choose Indie Local. Total Halloween spending is expected to reach a record $12.2 billion, exceeding last year’s record of $10.6 billion.
French Broad Chocolate: A Sense of Place
From Chocolate Noise: In 2003, Jael Rattigan was standing in her kitchen, making a recipe from...
GivingTuesday
GivingTuesday unleashes the power of radical generosity. Celebrated on the Tuesday following...
Why Cider Monday Matters
Celebrate Cider Monday to bring attention to the effects of online sales on your community.
Sunshine Award Winner: The Penguin Gallery
From Souvenirs, Gifts & Novelties (SGN) magazine: In the quaint New Hampshire village of North...
Invest Indie Local: Eat Indie Local Month
For the last week of Eat Indie Local Month, we’ll focus on investing in our local food systems....
Celebrate Diversity on Your Plate: Eat Indie Local Month
For our third week of Eat Indie Local Month, we’ll focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion. How...
Start With the Land: Eat Indie Local Month
For our second week of Eat Indie Local Month, we'll focus on the land. Who is cultivating farmland...
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New Report: Small Business’s Big Moment
By Kennedy Smith, Institute for Local Self-Reliance Our new report suggests a dozen ways that civic leaders can use the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) to strengthen local economies by supporting small business development. Our report suggests twelve ways in which...
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...