AMIBA News & Updates
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.
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.
French Broad Chocolate: A Sense of Place
From Chocolate Noise: In 2003, Jael Rattigan was standing in her kitchen, making a recipe from...
GivingTuesday
GivingTuesday unleashes the power of radical generosity. Celebrated on the Tuesday following...
Why Cider Monday Matters
Celebrate Cider Monday to bring attention to the effects of online sales on your community.
Sunshine Award Winner: The Penguin Gallery
From Souvenirs, Gifts & Novelties (SGN) magazine: In the quaint New Hampshire village of North...
Call for Partners: Choose Black-Owned Month
We invite you to partner with us to grow our Choose Black-Owned Campaign in February.
Invest Indie Local: Eat Indie Local Month
For the last week of Eat Indie Local Month, we’ll focus on investing in our local food systems....
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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,...
Zingerman’s ZingTrain Pandemic response featured at Virtual Conference on Building Equity
Even the most beloved independent businesses were blindsided by the COVID-19 pandemic, and ZingTrain was no exception -- despite being the part of the Zingerman’s family of businesses that teaches people nationwide how to provide exceptional customer service and...
Virtual Conference on Building Equity: The Recap
For Local Economy leaders from more than 26 states, AMIBA’s first-ever Virtual Conference broke extensive new ground, both in content and in experience. The first conference in the Local Economy Movement to treat racial equity as a centrally important issue, and the...
What can you do with your Cohort to get the most out of the Building Equity Virtual Conference?
In yesterday's post we talked about why it makes sense to bring a cohort, or a group, of local leaders to the Building Equity Virtual Conference. To which your response might be Great, I get them to attend. Yay. How do we actually use that to make our Local Economy...
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...