AMIBA News & Updates
Local Legend: Zingerman’s Community of Businesses
From Zingerman's Community of Businesses (MI): Did you know that our staff will own 50% of the...
How Businesses Can Celebrate Choose Black-Owned Month
Do you sell products and services from Black-Owned businesses? Give them a shout-out during Shop Black-Owned Month.
Gift Local: Holiday Gift Guides and Online Marketplaces
Make it easier to Gift Local and Shop Indie Local, create a simple online Gift Guide.
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.
Cider Monday
Celebrate Cider Monday That’s not a typo! Instead of Cyber Monday, a day when online merchants...
Skip the Door-Busting Mobs and Chill Your Holiday with Plaid Friday or Cider Monday
“Embrace everyone already wearing plaid, document it with a picture, and watch it grow.”
Post-Helene Hero: Patton Avenue Pets
What started as an abandoned meat processing facility turned into a vibrant, walkable, and bikeable community center with an astounding 300 local farm partners.
Local Legend: Equal Exchange – Fairness to Farmers
Fairness to farmers. A closer connection between people and the farmers we all rely on.
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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...
Washingtonians Should Make their First Priority Local Needs: Think Local First DC
New construction will soon occupy more District corners and with them, the promise of the latest, the newest, and the biggest. But one thing that cannot be lost among the blueprints and the scaffolds is the support and engagement of small, independent, and...
Taking Care of Business with Dan Tratensek – Stacy Mitchell
Dan Tratensek of the North American Hardware and Paint Association speaks with Institute for Local Self-Reliance's Stacy Mitchell about the growing movement against corporate consolidation on the newest episode of Taking Care of Business.
ILSR: New Opportunities for Cities to Create Affordable Space for Small Business
For Governing, Senior Researcher Kennedy Smith, with Ryan Coonerty, explains how local governments can leverage American Rescue Plan funds to help the small businesses in their communities. The pandemic, but also years of online and big-box retailers’ predatory...