AMIBA News & Updates
Call for Partners: Choose Indie Pride Month
Celebrate LGBTQ+ owned businesses, diversity, and equity. Partner with us during Pride Month this June. It’s free!
Built With Purpose, Fortified With Love
From Lutunji’s Palate's website: Lutunji’s Palate is a social enterprise "Built with Purpose;...
St. Patrick’s Day: Keep the Green In Your Community
This St. Patrick’s Day, keep the green in your community by investing more of your dollars at community banks, credit unions, and locally owned businesses.
How to Celebrate Independents Month in Style from Tarot to Trivia
Celebrate Your Independents Sitting in the home his grandparents bought in 1958, Tom Shay looks...
Choose B Corps, Co-ops, and Celebrate How Indie Locals Give Back
This March, AMIBA invites you to celebrate Choose Indie Sustainable Month. We're teaming up with...
Warm Up to Winter With Placemaking
Instead of hibernating each winter, imagine enthusiastically leaping outdoors each day — despite the weather.
The Good for Supply Chain Award: Madison Closet and Farms
From People First Economy (MI): This year, People First Economy is excited to honor Miss Kim’s...
Eat, Drink, and Be Local: Year-End Sales
How can we continue to promote Shop Indie Local during the last days of this year and into the new year?
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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...