Unchained!

Sometimes seemingly small acts have an impact bigger than you ever imagined. Take family spending. You may think you’re just fulfilling your family’s wants or needs when you shop or dine out. Think again.

The choice of where you spend your money makes a big difference to your community. Spending your money with locally-owned independent businesses puts it to work directly helping your local economy—just one way your community benefits from its independent businesses. They use goods and services of other local indies -- re-circulating up to 3.5 times more money locally than if you spend it at a chain.  This creates greater community health and prosperity.

Consider choosing one day as a focal point to tell your community about the huge benefit generated if people went entirely local for a day by doing their shopping, dining out and other business only with locally-owned independent businesses. 

We time this important message to reach citizens before they are inundated with a clutter of holiday ads and events.  We hope they will carry this message with them as they do all of their holiday purchasing and other business.

AMIBA affiliation is not required to participate.  Simply download the campaign materials to involve your community!  Be sure to inform us that you are participating -- we like to have a sense of how many communities are involved.  You'll join our IBAs, kindred organizations, individual community-based businesses, independent trade associations, and motivated citizens everywhere in unchaining their communities and themselves.  We provide you all the campaign information and materials (logos, templates for promotional items, press release, and more) you'll need.

1.  Click to see an index of downloadable graphics, information and templates

2. email AMIBA to let us know you are participating!

Contact AMIBA for more information, assistance or to arrange interviews at 406-582-1255 or via email.