AMIBA News & Updates
Best Independent Cookie Shop in the US
Please & Thank You Cookie Shop, based in Louisville, KY, received last year's US Today Readers...
Celebrate National Farmers Market Week During Eat Indie Local Month
National Farmers Market Week is a great opportunity to show the nation how much value markets bring to their communities.
Fire Island Bake Shop: Generative Entrepreneurship and Small-Business Karma
From Alaska Journal of Commerce: If you live in Anchorage, you know the bakery is “line around the...
Cars Don’t Spend Money — People Do
“After 50 years of framing work around the automobile, retail analysts in both the private and public sectors are shifting to a new consensus: cars don’t spend money — people do.”
Founder of Hope & Main Named Rhode Island Woman of the Year
From Providence Journal: Lisa Raiola has changed the face of small businesses in Rhode Island....
Top 5 Reasons to Choose a Community Bank or Credit Union
At local banks and credit unions, loan approvals and other key decisions are made locally by people who live in the community, have face-to-face relationships with their customers, and understand local needs.
Zingerman’s Community of Businesses
From The Main Street Journal: Zingerman’s Community of Businesses (ZCoB) has been a local food...
Who’s Local? Find Community Banks and Credit Unions in Your Region
You may know some of the Community Banks and Credit Unions in your area. But do you know them all?
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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...