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The fat cats aren’t fat cats because they built a better mousetrap. They’re fat cats because they bought all the mice and made your mousetrap irrelevant.
Local business depends on free enterprise to thrive. But when free enterprise is choked by...
Local Leaders Roundtable: Nuts & Bolts 3/11/21
Please join us for the next Local Leaders Roundtable where we come together to share, inspire, learn and get to know one another every second Thursday, 1pm ET. You have a whole community here to help—Join Us!
Special offer for AMIBA members: website upgrade/redesign
You can admit it… website design and maintenance can be a drag, especially when you have so many...
Local Leaders Learn What’s New At AMIBA.net
The Local Leaders Roundtable met on January 14 for a session entitled What's New at AMIBA: A Tour...
New Round of Payroll Protection Program includes second round offers favoring CDFIs, low income communities and smaller businesses
Revisions to the Payroll Protection Program were included in the recent COVID-19 Economic Relief...
Local Leaders Roundtable: Local Hive 2/11/21
Please join us for the next Local Leaders Roundtable where we come together to share, inspire, learn and get to know one another every second Thursday, 1pm ET. You have a whole community here to help—Join Us!
This giving season, invest in the resilience of America’s communities.
It’s a new day at AMIBA – 20 years ago the local movement took root in America. Today, locally owned business is a community value and more essential than ever. Learn more about our holiday fundraiser.
AMIBA kicks off first-ever Virtual Conference with invite to a new direction
AMIBA’s first-ever Virtual Conference (and the first in the Local Economy Movement to focus on racial equity), Executive Director Derek Peebles’ reading of Oriah Mountain Dreamer’s “The Invitation” set a bold new tone
Industry News Feed
Who’s Coming With You?
You might have noticed that information about the upcoming AMIBA virtual conference is encouraging you to "bring" a group of people -- not just from your IBA, but from other organizations and agencies that you work with (or would like to work with). You might have...
Maine Voices: COVID-battered local businesses need Congress to step up
AMIBA Board of Directors member and Portland Buy Local Executive Director Mary Alice Scott wrote this great opinion piece for the Portland Press Herald. Chances are, it fits your community, too. Have you done a survey like the one Portland Buy Local conducted? If...
Technology FTW: practical ways to communicate with your community and promote your businesses
Cross-posted from wiseeconomy.com An AccelerateUs: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Local Industrial Revolution conversation. How do you get the news about your local businesses out to everyone when everything changes every day? How do you keep a few hundred...
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