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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....
Celebrate Diversity on Your Plate: Eat Indie Local Month
For our third week of Eat Indie Local Month, we’ll focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion. How...
Start With the Land: Eat Indie Local Month
For our second week of Eat Indie Local Month, we'll focus on the land. Who is cultivating farmland...
Farm to Fingers: A Rising Star
From Local First (CO): Farm to Fingers is a full-service catering company that works with local...
Celebrate Choose Indie Art Month in October
This October, celebrate the arts during Choose Indie Art Month hosted by the American Independent Business Alliance.
Choose ALL Indie Locals: Independents Month
For the last days of Independents Month, we'll focus on a different business sector each weekday....
Community Wealth Building: Transforming Local Economies
“Amid the chaos and breakdown of our time, imagining such a thing as economic system change can...
2025 Choose Indie Local Campaigns
To give you a jump start on your marketing and outreach efforts, here are our 2025 Choose Indie Local Campaigns. Become a partner with us today!
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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...