Eeks! Black Friday and Small Business Saturday earn DOUBLE Merits at all Placemaker businesses!
This means 40 Merits at businesses you've never been to 😲
Economic concentration has a geography, and it’s devastating.
“Just 20% of rural counties with populations of fewer than 100,000 added net businesses between 2007 and 2016."
Co-founder @katrinasdc just gave a presentation to Japan Intercultural Academy of Municipalities on why independent businesses are so vital to the fabric of neighborhoods 🇺🇸 ❤️🇯🇵
71 years ago @SalzburgGlobal was born. A mega hope beacon where (over the decades) 36,000 intellectuals from 170 countries have convened to learn from each other. Last year, co-founder @katrinasdc became a Salzburg fellow 🙌🏾 #SalzburgGlobalDay
Today's gratitude goes to... @civiceconomics for a lovely phone call between old local-economy-nerd-pals and @ilsr for releasing the long-awaited report on Amazon's mission to take over city government procurement 🙏🏾
We have a new report on Amazon out! Our investigation uncovers a move that’s gone largely unnoticed: Amazon’s going after your city's purchasing. 1/ https://t.co/oTgEuSDf8D
**WOW** We 💯 percent understand how difficult it is to navigate around conventional fundraising to preserve mission integrity. Congrats to @organicgrownco for trailblazing a model that many more will surely follow 🙌🏾 #socent https://t.co/j0tmWIwnUT
25 years ago, small businesses employed millions more Americans than big businesses did. No longer.
Big business keeps growing -- often at the expense of small. https://t.co/Q2dq3orD3H
#PSA announcement regarding Trump's immigration speech to NFIB... the "National Federation of Independent Business" is a partisan thorn in the side for folks like us that authentically support independent business. Thx to @KauffmanFDN & @theAMIBA for the laying down facts 👇🏾