AMIBA News & Updates
Give a Gift to Your Community this Holiday Season and Shop Indie Local
Starting with our Thanksgiving meal, we’re purchasing more of our holiday gifts and celebration needs from our friends and neighbors — locally owned business owners.
Gift Local: Holiday Gift Guides and Online Marketplaces
Make it easier to Gift Local and Shop Indie Local, create a simple online Gift Guide.
Myti: More Than Just an Amazon Rival
From Seven Days (VT): When Bill Calfee announced in 2020 that he was creating a local alternative...
This Fall 🍁 Shop Small
Why promote Shop Indie Local early this holiday season? Because more of us are shopping early for holiday gifts.
Invest Indie Art: Support Independent Artists and Creatives in Your Community
“Art is not only about what an artist creates,” said Sarah L. Stewart, N.H. Department of Natural...
Anti-Prime Days Campaigns: A Prime Time to Make Ripples
Amazon’s Prime Days (Tuesday, July 16 – Wednesday, July 17, 2024)are PRIME times to focus on the Local Multiplier and other ways our communities benefit when we Choose Indie Local.
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...
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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...