AMIBA News & Updates
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.
Dang Good on Main
From Lia Gallegos, People Places LLC: I’d like to nominate Dang Good on Main, owned and operated...
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?
Call for Partners: Move Your Money – Bank Local, Invest Local
Partner with us to grow our Move Your Money: Bank Local, Invest Local Campaign, part of the Shop Indie Local year-round movement.
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...
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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...