AMIBA News & Updates
Small Business Saturday: Shop Small and Indies First
This Small Business Saturday, bring small businesses and shoppers together this holiday season.
New England Food Businesses Invited to Join 2025 Local Food Count
Regional campaign invites retailers, grocers, institutions, distributors, food hubs, and...
Shop Indie Local Holiday Season Campaign Launches November 1
On November 1, 2025, the American Independent Business Alliance (AMIBA) will launch its Shop Indie...
Business of Community: How Businesses Contributed to Hurricane Helene Recovery Efforts
By Sherree Lucas, Go Local Asheville (NC) Executive Director With the anniversary of [Hurricane]...
Choose Indie Art: This Fall, Choose Local and Handmade
This October, celebrate the arts during Choose Indie Art Month hosted by the American Independent Business Alliance.
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.
Resist Prime Days Campaigns: A Prime Time to Make Ripples
Anti-Prime Days Campaigns: A prime time to focus on all the ways our communities benefit when we Choose Indie Local.
Novel Refuge: A Community Bookstore with Purpose, Heart, and a Mission
What started as an abandoned meat processing facility turned into a vibrant, walkable, and bikeable community center with an astounding 300 local farm partners.
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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...