Shift Your Shopping: National Press Release
Visit our Press Page to download all press releases in pdf format » FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 1, 2011 150 Local Business Alliances And National Independent Business Advocates Launch “Shift Your...
View ArticleA Paradigm Shift? We hope so
by Joe Grafton, Somerville Local First If you’re just finding out about the local movement, then this campaign is already succeeding. Over the past 10+ years, business owners, community organizers,...
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Local Business Fall Gathering Recap
By Danielle Kennedy On October 21, New England Local Business Forum (NELBF) returned to its roots in Portsmouth, NH for its 8th semiannual gathering. What started three years ago in the same city with...
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‘Tis the Season: On Shifting Your Shopping
David Day is the Editor of DigBoston, an alternative newsweekly. There’s been a lot of talk these days about Occupy, the 99%, Moving Your Money, the list goes on. All of these are a part of an...
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Think Local First This Holiday Season!
Local First Indiana’s Think Local First Holiday Guide is filled with ideas for your Holiday shopping list–and they are all from local, independent businesses in Bloomington. Bursting with 39 pages of...
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So Much To Be Thankful For
SO MUCH TO BE THANKFUL FOR Thanksgiving is an excellent time to eat local and buy local, and here at Lowcountry Local First we have so much to be thankful for! This year we have experienced incredible...
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Shop Local This Holiday Season
Story by Anna Oakes from High Country Press Mary Scott, director of High Country Local First, has distributed posters around the community to encourage consumers to shop at local, independent...
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Unwrap Chicago: Eat, Drink & Buy Local
The City of Chicago TV made this great video for Local First Chicago. Check it out and read the story below! The 2011 citywide Buy Local campaign “Unwrap Chicago – Eat, Drink and Buy Local” has...
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The New Oakland Grown Gift Card
SYS Editor Note: Local Business Networks across the country are hubs of innovation. The piece below is from Mark McLeod, Executive Director of Sustainable Business Alliance in California, and details...
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November is Shop Local First Month!
To emphasize the importance of shopping locally, the City of Edmonton is proclaiming November Shop Local First month. Take a look at what it does for your community!
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Taking Back Black Friday
This holiday season we’re reaching a wider audience than ever before. We’re asking our community to participate by taking back their lives on Black Friday. Instead of waking up at 4am, waiting in...
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4th Annual Craftboston Holiday
The Society of Arts and Crafts Presents: THE 4TH ANNUAL CRAFTBOSTON HOLIDAY 2011 The Cure for the Re-Gifting Epidemic! No one wants to talk about it. Itʼs embarrassing and usually not too pretty. The...
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Tips for Shifting Your Holiday Spending
From Local First Arizona It’s still November, yet they’ve already begun playing holiday music on the radio! And we all know what that means… it’s that special time of year where we’re all frantically...
View ArticleWatch, Smile, and Pass It On!
From Seattle Good Business Network In 2011, Seattle Good Business Network launched Think Local – an ongoing campaign that gets the word out about why local matters, and promotes Seattle’s great local...
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Shift Your Shopping – The Song!
Song created by Michael J. Epstein & Sophia Cacciola Click on the player below to hear the song created with Indies in mind! May be distributed freely and used to create non-commercial derivative...
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Plaid Friday 2011: Monadnock Style
Monadnock Buy Local’s Shift Your Shopping Campaign started on November 25, 2011, shifting the conversation in New Hampshire from Black Friday to Plaid Friday. Citizens wore plaid to show their support...
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