AMIBA News & Updates
Novel Refuge: A Community Bookstore with Purpose, Heart, and a Mission
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: Laury Hammel – Longfellow Health Clubs
It’s always an inspiration to meet someone like Laury Hammel—someone who is active and successful in the business world while also staying true to his lifelong ideals and principles.
Shining a Light on Local First Arizona
In this issue of The Main Street Journal, we’re pleased to interview Kimber Lanning, the founder and CEO of Local First Arizona.
Localism: Begin In Your Backyard
Michael Shuman, economist, author, and publisher of The Main Street Journal, shared four main principles of Localism: action, power, partnership, and respect.
This Fall 🍁 Shop Small
Why promote Shop Indie Local early this holiday season? Because more of us are shopping early for holiday gifts.
Second Generation Stewardship with Cambridge Naturals
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: Judy Wicks, White Dog Café
What started as an abandoned meat processing facility turned into a vibrant, walkable, and bikeable community center with an astounding 300 local farm partners.
Invest Indie Local: Eat Indie Local Month
During Eat Indie Local Month, we’ll focus on how organizations invest in local and regional food...
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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...