With

Pioneer Valley Local First

for Benefits of being an Individual Supporter, please see below.

1. Promotion of your business through your own page on pvLocalFirst.org with a link to your business's website and a rotating banner of your logo on our home page.
2. Inclusion in our 3rd Pioneer Valley Local Business Guide when it comes out in the Spring of 2012. 20,000 or more copies will be printed and widely distributed through out Western Massachusetts.
3. Members receive a 10% discount off of group advertising rates.
4. Pioneer Valley Local First Member decal for your store front window(s). This PV Local First decal in your window will assure potential customers that yours is a locally owned, independent business.
5. By request, we will provide support to your business in development of Action Plans to make positive changes to benefit our local economy, community, and/or environment, such as: assistance to do more local purchasing; set up recycling/composting programs; and/or work with organizations like the Center for Ecological Technology (CET) or Coop Power to purchase green electricity or bio-fuels.
6. All PVLF members who wish to advertise in this year's Hidden Hills of Western Massachusetts Map and / or Hidden-Hills.com get $25 OFF from the regular rates. That means $124 (reg. $149) for the full Map/Website package, or $70 (reg. $95) for a web-only sponsorship. Call Dave at 413.532.6440 or email editor@hidden-hills.com.
7. Discounts to paid Pioneer Valley Local First Events.
8. Positive PR for your business through cause related marketing.
9. Participation and exposure in our annual Local First Campaign.
10. Potential media exposure for your business or organization.
11. Increase your sales and market share through educating the public about the economic, ecological and community benefits of shopping locally.
12. Promote local governments, colleges, universities, and non-profits to increase their purchasing from local, independent businesses. To increase local business-to-business purchasing as well.
13. Last, but not least, we will all share in a higher quality of life and greater degrees of financial success for the Pioneer Valley, both north and south when all of us -business owners, customers, students, employees, neighbors- think first of the local economy and increase our purchasing from locally owned, independent businesses.

Member Rewards and Responsibilities

Again, we strongly believe that if all of us-business owners, customers, students, employees, and neighbors- think first of the local economy in our purchases, we will all share in the benefits of a higher-quality of life and commensurate financial success in the Pioneer Valley. Only passionate involvement in the local economy will produce this reward!

Benefits of being an Individual Supporter:

1. Discounts to all paid Pioneer Valley Local First events

2. Receive our email up-dates of great events supporting our local, living economy.

3. Think Local First window decal(s) for your car.

4. Knowledge that you are benefitting your community.

5. Your donation is not tax-deductible.

Cost: $25/year, $15/year for students/lower income individuals to become an Individual Supporter. Please note, financial donations at any level are greatly appreciated.

Click here to join/renew your membership with Pioneer Valley Local First.