AMIBA News & Updates
Founders Reverend Carl Walker and Grant West: Walker West Music Academy
New England Sweetwater Farm & Distillery, a Black-owned business in Winchester, NH, offers award-winning locally made spirits and ready-to-drink cocktails.
Local Legend: Jamee Haley, Neighborly Park Circle
We celebrate this month’s Local Legend, Helena Norberg-Hodge. She’s the founder and director of Local Futures.
Creating a Framework: A Declaration for Independent Businesses
We believe that strong local economies are the essential building blocks of a better world.
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.”
Studio Patty D: Where Every Brushstroke Bursts With Joy
New England Sweetwater Farm & Distillery, a Black-owned business in Winchester, NH, offers award-winning locally made spirits and ready-to-drink cocktails.
Local Legend: Helena Norberg-Hodge – The Economics of Happiness
We celebrate this month’s Local Legend, Helena Norberg-Hodge. She’s the founder and director of Local Futures.
Help Crowdsource Independents with Myti
An invitation from Myti, an AMIBA member and a local alternative to Amazon (starting in Vermont). ...
Why Invest Locally?
By Michael H. Shuman In 2025, Americans held over $81 trillion in stocks, bonds, mutual funds,...
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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...
Maine Voices: COVID-battered local businesses need Congress to step up
AMIBA Board of Directors member and Portland Buy Local Executive Director Mary Alice Scott wrote this great opinion piece for the Portland Press Herald. Chances are, it fits your community, too. Have you done a survey like the one Portland Buy Local conducted? If...
Technology FTW: practical ways to communicate with your community and promote your businesses
Cross-posted from wiseeconomy.com An AccelerateUs: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Local Industrial Revolution conversation. How do you get the news about your local businesses out to everyone when everything changes every day? How do you keep a few hundred...