The Main Street Journal
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A hub for news about local investing:
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In corned beef we trust
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Local Futures
12 days ago
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celebrate this month’s Local Legend, Helena Norberg-Hodge. She’s the founder and director of Local Futures, a nonprofit dedicated to renewing ecological and social well-being by strengthening communities and local economies.
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Local Legend: Helena Norberg-Hodge - The Economics of Happiness - AMIBA
We celebrate this month's Local Legend, Susan Witt, cofounder and executive director of the Schumacher Center for a New Economics.
https://amiba.net/local-legend-helena-norberg-hodge-the-economics-of-happiness/
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Local Return
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Apply now for our next cohort of Jumpstarters. Change the face of real estate development in Rhode Island. Shape your future and the future of your neighborhood.
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about 2 months ago
New England Sweetwater Farm & Distillery, a Black-owned business in Winchester, NH, offers award-winning locally made spirits and ready-to-drink cocktails. They source many ingredients right from their farm: blueberries, heirloom cider apples, and juniper berries. Learn more!
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Sue AnderBois
3 months ago
I’m so proud to be an early investor in the RI Community Investment fund — to literally *invest* in our community! Check it out 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
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American Independent Business Alliance (AMIBA)
3 months ago
Long Live the Local Economy Movement 💕 2026 marks the American Independent Business Alliance's 25th anniversary. Thank you for your years of engagement, transforming ripples into waves of local economic growth.
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Post Carbon Institute
2 months ago
Online Event | Free | Thursday, January 29 | 10 AM PT /18:00 GMT All registrants for next week's event, "Nourishing a Bioregional Economy: Put Your Money Where Your Feet Are," will be entered to win their pick of a book from Michael Shuman's library. Register Now:
lnk.to/bioeconomyBK
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Local Futures
3 months ago
During this 90-minute session, Donna Morton and Michael Shuman will share their knowledge of investing locally, supporting the local economy, and building bioregional institutions, including ideas for moving your money from Wall Street to Main Street.
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Nourishing a Bioregional Economy
In this live online event, Donna Morton (cofounder of Salmon Returns) and Michael Shuman (community economist) share their knowledge of investing locally and building bioregional institutions.
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-12-10/nourishing-a-bioregional-economy/?utm_source=Post+Carbon+Institute&utm_campaign=e38bbcee58-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_08_18_09_35_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f78cfc4539-a8aa87956d-15916770&mc_cid=e38bbcee58&mc_eid=01173a9d96
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Prospera Partners
3 months ago
Business on Purpose: A Virtual Session on Social Impact & Responsible Entrepreneurship happens a week from today! Link:
bit.ly/biz-on-purpose-jan
(Photo by Luke Webb)
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4 months ago
Discover more about Myti, on a mission to build the next evolution in shopping: an experience that allows a community to order everything from everyday essentials to local favorites online while keeping money in their local economy. Join us on Thursday, Jan. 8, at 1 pm EST.
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Credit Union Size Matters
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Credit Union Size Matters
Promoters of community capital are often willing to overlook or excuse the poor performance of their local bank or credit union.
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4 months ago
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Shelterforce
4 months ago
In this webinar, Chris Brown shares how the Hudson Valley Alliance is combining rural CLTs, conservation, and manufactured housing to protect affordability and farmland—while pushing back on private equity. Watch here:
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#RuralHousing
#CLTs
#HousingJustice
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4 months ago
“To live means to buy, to buy means to have power, to have power means to have responsibility.” Resist AND Revitalize:
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4 months ago
It's the Most Wonderful Time to Give Local
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Shelterforce
4 months ago
Congress made Opportunity Zones permanent. Will they lift neighborhoods or just investors? Chicago’s Hope Manor shows what’s possible when local groups guide the dollars. Listen here:
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#OpportunityZones
#Housing
#CommunityDevelopment
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Opportunity Zones: Billionaire Handout or Housing Booster?
The Opportunity Zone (OZ) program has unleashed billions in private capital. But who does the program really help?
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Local Return
5 months ago
The best part of choosing local is bragging about it! Tell your friends and family *why* you choose to spend with local and independently owned businesses and service providers. We can all be local economy champions.
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Invest in Your Neighborhood ... Mall
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Invest in Your Neighborhood Mall
Neighborhood malls are more than places to shop.
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5 months ago
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5 months ago
Keeping it local: How shopping close to home strengthens our community
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Keeping it local: How shopping close to home strengthens our community | Homer News
Every dollar spent locally helps create jobs, fuel community growth and keep Homer’s spirit thriving
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Hey
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! How about a NYC Public Bank?
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Hey Zohran! How About a NYC Public Bank?
Zohran Mamdani’s resounding victory as mayor of New York City now needs to show results. Image Credit: Public Bank NYC
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5 months ago
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5 months ago
On Plaid Friday, embrace everyone already wearing plaid, document it with a picture, and watch it grow.
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Skip the Door-Busting Mobs and Chill Your Holiday with Plaid Friday or Cider Monday - AMIBA
“Embrace everyone already wearing plaid, document it with a picture, and watch it grow.”
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Prospera Partners
5 months ago
Vicki will be leading a Local Leaders Roundtable for the American Independent Business Alliance (AMIBA)
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on November 13 Learn more and register here:
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Shelterforce
6 months ago
This week in Shelterforce: From climate risk to
#CommunityOwnership—how
communities are protecting homes & power. Bluelining could deepen inequality as insurers pull back from climate-vulnerable areas. Plus: new models of
#CommunityOwnership
in Denver & beyond. 🔗
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Plastic Microrecycling Goes Viral
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Plastic Microrecycling Goes Viral
Hundreds of Precious Plastic workshops worldwide convert waste into products and profits
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6 months ago
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6 months ago
We 😍 Plaid Friday!
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Local Return
6 months ago
Mega retailers use their market power to extract illegal pricing, access, and promotions from suppliers, allowing them to undercut small and medium competitors on retail prices. Join us to see how local businesses can stand up to big corporate power.
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6 months ago
Why Choose Indie Art this Holiday Season? Shopping art is about more than acquiring beautiful objects. It’s about: 🌟 Supporting local economies – When consumers purchase art, they invest in their own communities by supporting independent creators and small businesses.
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I jumped at the opportunity to interview Hartmann, in part to expose him to ideas around community capital. As you’ll see, this effort is a work in progress!
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Thom Hartmann Speaks
Our featured interview this week is with Thom Hartmann, arguably the top progressive talk-radio DJ in the country.
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6 months ago
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6 months ago
TODAY & EVERY DAY! Where you spend your $ matters — your choices create a ripple effect that starts with you & extends out to your entire community & local economy. Choose an Indie Local (independent & locally owned business), & the positive ripple effects magnify. Let’s make waves!
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6 months ago
Small Business Saturday: Shop Small and Indies First on November 29 The day after Plaid Friday is Small Business Saturday. No matter how you get involved, every little bit makes a big difference. Join us!
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Real-World Rabbit Holing
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Real-World Rabbit Holing
A book that describes regular folks serving justice to slimeball authorities, damaging their communities.
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6 months ago
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6 months ago
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7 months ago
Why Choose Indie Local? It Fuels Neighborhood Job Creation 💸🌱 Independent retailers create more jobs per sales dollar than chain competitors or online giants. When you shop and invest your dollars, choose locally owned and independent businesses!
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If you truly want to support minority-owned businesses, invest in those you know, trust, and love in your own backyard. It’s really that simple.
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Scamming Social Change
Since 2018, the Dream Exchange has been raising funds from do-gooders across the country to create a public marketplace for minority-owned businesses.
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6 months ago
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Twin Threats to Local News (And Where's Local Opinion?)
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Twin Threats to Local News (And Where's Local Opinion?)
As PBS stations lose funding for local broadcast journalism, they'll air a new documentary about the demise of local print journalism
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6 months ago
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Sometimes it’s better to unleash many small things, in many places, led by many different groups, each sensitive to the needs of the affected communities. Read the latest MSJ:
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Housing Cooperatives: The Better Abundance Agenda
I’m still working my way through Ezra Klein’s and Derek Thompson’s book Abundance, which urges liberals to embrace a world where they do “big things.” If we want more housing, for example, we need to ...
https://mainstreetjournal.substack.com/p/housing-cooperatives-the-better-abundance
7 months ago
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7 months ago
If your community thinking about organizing better support of local biz to strengthen the local economy, now is the time to read this great interview with Vicki's friend and colleague, Kimber Lanning of Local First Arizona. In big cities, small towns, rural communities, local prosperity is possible!
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8 months ago
How can we invest more of our dollars into our local and regional food systems? Does your community help individuals invest in local food and farms? If so, we’d love to hear more.
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Invest in Local Food
August is Eat Indie Local Month
https://chooseindielocal.substack.com/p/invest-in-local-food
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7 months ago
"I believe that unique, independent businesses create a culture that connects people to their hometown and makes them feel connected to each other and to their place."
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Local Business Networks: Not Dead Yet
Fifteen years ago, local business networks were spreading like wildfire across the country. Now...
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7 months ago
Thank you, Local Return, for renewing your AMIBA Membership and for building community wealth in Rhode Island:
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Fifteen years ago, local business networks were spreading like wildfire across the country. But now...
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Local Business Networks: Not Dead Yet
Fifteen years ago, local business networks were spreading like wildfire across the country. Now...
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7 months ago
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One Size Fits None: Time for an Entrepreneurial Revolution
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A Matter of Scale
The “killer app” approach kills local innovation and optimization
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8 months ago
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8 months ago
“Our urine contains things that crops need: water, of course, but also urea, a nitrogen compound that’s used as a plant fertilizer, plus phosphorus, potassium, and other nutrients.” ~ Paul Spinrad, Decent Tuesdays
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Attention philanthropy in our attention economy
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Celebrity Moves the Overton Window
Attention philanthropy in our attention economy
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8 months ago
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How The Front Porch Enriches Vermont
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How The Front Porch Enriches Vermont
For 25 years, Michael and Valerie Wood-Lewis have developed a local online network in Vermont called Front Porch Forum (FPF).
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8 months ago
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8 months ago
Black Gold: The Power of Compost
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Shelterforce
8 months ago
Counting down to
#NationalNonprofitDay
! This week we’re celebrating the people & purpose behind Shelterforce—an award-winning publication that uses journalism to inspire, inform & hold accountable those working for just, thriving communities. 🔗
shelterforce.org
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Golden Opportunity: Human urine rises to the next level as an agricultural resource
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Golden Opportunity
Human urine rises to the next level as an agricultural resource
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8 months ago
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8 months ago
From
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Resisting Authoritarianism: How to Activate Civil Society’s Pillars of Support -
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Resisting Authoritarianism: How to Activate Civil Society’s Pillars of Support - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly
Can authoritarianism be stopped? Five sectors play critical roles in answering that question and help civil society better uphold democracy.
https://nonprofitquarterly.org/resisting-authoritarianism-how-to-activate-civil-societys-pillars-of-support/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=bluesky&utm_source=socialnetwork
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8 months ago
On Ep 477 of Impact Boom,
@vickipozzebon.bsky.social
discussed why local businesses are key to creating grassroots change & generating sustainable outcomes — a belief that drives our work! It's been a year since this aired, the topics are more relevant than ever.
www.impactboom.org/blog/2024/04...
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Vicki Pozzebon On The Prime Opportunity For Local Businesses To Initiate Grassroots Social Impact — Impact Boom | Purpose-Driven Intermediary Helping Changemakers Create Positive Social Impact
On Episode 477 of Impact Boom, Vicki Pozzebon of Prospera Partners discusses why local businesses are key to creating grassroots change and generating sustainable outcomes for communities through prac...
https://www.impactboom.org/blog/2024/04/06/vicki-pozzebon-on-the-prime-opportunity-for-local-businesses-to-initiate-grassroots-social-impact
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8 months ago
We’re celebrating National Farmers Market Week, August 3 - 9! Are you, too? Give a shout-out to a market near you!
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