American Independent Business Alliance Created Organization will assist communities looking to support local independent business and reverse chain proliferation . The Benefits of Doing Business Locally Each year brings more national chains displacing locally-owned businesses throughout the country. We see clones replace unique establishments. Education and marketing are like oil and water.
Public education has an agenda that is already crowded enough.
When we become marketers and distributors, we confuse our mission. I worry about a time when our educational goals might be influenced or even set by private companies targeting our students with their own narrow messages. Perceptions are not always accurate when we are lacking some of the essential information for fully informed decisions. We see and hear the omnipresent ads of corporate chains everyday, but are collectively under-informed about the many important values independent businesses provide us individually and as a community. In Boulder, Colorado, the Boulder Independent Business Alliance was launched in January 1998 to address this problem.