Help Celebrate Independents Week!
July 1-7, 2008 
As we honor national heritage and liberty, we also celebrate our nation's locally-owned independent businesses who have given so many citizens opportunity and underpinned and underwritten community life and prosperity. It's a time, too, to consider the independent decision-making ability each of us possesses to choose the future look and feel of the place we make our home.
Click here for a list of participating communities
and to register yours!
Local celebrations include:
- festivals and musical events
- scavenger hunts, in-store promotions and activities
- picnics, community bike rides, and other community-building activities
- prize drawings
- local and state governments declaring proclamations supporting and recognizing independent business' role in our daily lives through proclamation.
You can take the Indie Challenge -- use Independents Week to explore your community's independently-owned businesses see how much of your purchasing for that week you can do with them. You'll keep your money circulating in your community three times as long or more than spending it at chains where it leaves immediately for somewhere else. Every dollar you spend at a locally-owned business helps your community in many ways.
Get to know your neighbors. . .and help celebrate our Independents!
Coming soon: a list of partner organizations