AMIBA News & Updates
Crowdfunding Succeeds Through Community Connections
When entrepreneurs tell me that they would like to raise capital through investment crowdfunding, my first question is: How big are your email and social media lists?
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.
2025 Shop Indie Local Holiday Campaign Sponsored By … YOU?
Become a Shop Indie Local Holiday Campaign sponsor to help us raise awareness around the importance of supporting locally owned businesses.
The Power of Sourcing Local with Swamp Rabbit
What started as an abandoned meat processing facility turned into a vibrant, walkable, and bikeable community center with an astounding 300 local farm partners.
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.”
Bicycling Means Business
May is National Bike Month. Let’s focus on how bicycling means business!
Neighbors and Friends
From Daniela Fernandez-Ulen, CAMEO Network: I'd like to nominate Kaiy Smith and Hannah Said,...
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 and understand local needs.
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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...