AMIBA News & Updates
Choose ALL Indie Locals: Independents Month
For the last days of Independents Month, we'll focus on a different business sector each weekday....
Community Wealth Building: Transforming Local Economies
“Amid the chaos and breakdown of our time, imagining such a thing as economic system change can...
2025 Choose Indie Local Campaigns
To give you a jump start on your marketing and outreach efforts, here are our 2024 Choose Indie Local Campaigns. Become a partner with us today!
Independents Month: A Celebration of Entrepreneurship
This July, let’s celebrate our independence and our independents together.
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.
Monadnock Food Co-op Named Best NH Retailer of the Year
From Business NH Magazine: Modern grocery stores may have rows of checkout lines and massive...
What’s Our Why? Eat Indie Local
What’s Our WHY? Help us shape our answer. As we prepare for our second Eat Indie Local campaign, we want to dive into our WHY.
Best Independent Cookie Shop in the US
Please & Thank You Cookie Shop, based in Louisville, KY, received last year's US Today Readers...
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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...