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Berkeley Independents
By Lawrence Grown Imagine yourself in another town, full of chain stores and strip malls. What are...
American Independent Business Alliance Launches Eat Local Campaign
The American Independent Business Alliance (AMIBA) joins with thirty partners from nineteen states...
Access to Markets Initiative
AMIBA is partnering with the American Economic Liberties Project in the Access to Markets...
House Judiciary Committee Approves Package for Antitrust Legislation
The Judiciary Committee wrote and passed six different bills, two of them being general-purpose...
From the Executive Director: A Just and Fair Approach
AMIBA and partners are leading the effort to understand the narrative and conversation needed to...
Local Leaders Roundtable: What’s New at AMIBA 7/8/21
You’ve already experienced one of the biggest benefits of membership—the AMIBA community. We are all the best resource for each other. The wisdom, experience and insight we bring each other is priceless. But there’s more, so much more. AMIBA has been…
Monopoly Power Infographic
Understanding monopolies is important because they effect your business. This doesn’t mean studying anti-trust laws or pouring through the history of monopolies. This simply means understand how they effect your…
AMIBA Announces Year-Round Shop Indie Local Initiative
The American Independent Business Alliance recently expanded its Shop Indie Local holiday campaign to a year-round initiative.
Industry News Feed
CVCOC: Buy local now more than ever
There is no debate that Vermonters have put up with a lot this past year and a half. Unanticipated, and certainly unwanted, COVID-19 has created chaos in our communities. Canceling our plans, laying us off, creating havoc in our lives, our children’s lives, our plans,...
What Will It Take To Save America’s Small Businesses?
Devastation for American small businesses. Federal relief funds ran out almost instantaneously. More may be on the way, but what can be done to save small business?
‘Downtown on the Farm’ continues at a social distance in 2020
Downtown on the Farm, presented by Locally Owned Murfreesboro, is BYOB (Bring Your Own Blanket) in 2020, the nonprofit announced.
Three Banks Award $33K Grant to Help Support Tourism in Las Vegas, New Mexico
Southwest Capital Bank, Community 1st Bank Las Vegas (Community 1st Bank) and the Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas (FHLB Dallas) have provided $33,000 in Partnership Grant Program (PGP) funds to help a nonprofit foundation in Las Vegas, New Mexico, market the city to tourists.
Anti-Monopoly Fund Funnels $1 Million into Antitrust Efforts
A group pushing for more competitive markets is funneling more than $1 million into initiatives that promote stronger antitrust enforcement as U.S. regulators examine whether Silicon Valley’s biggest companies have too much power over commerce.
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