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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.
Artists Sunday
We invite all artists to join Artists Sunday, a national marketing campaign and event that...
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...
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Small Business Anti-Displacement Network
AMIBA works closely with the Anti-Displacement Network to help small businesses remain resilient in the face of change and benefit from new neighborhood investments. In doing so, we work to ensure that disadvantaged business owners, workers, and residents build...
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...