Shift Your Shopping
Shift Your Shopping encourages residents and businesses to make a "Shift" by buying from local independent businesses for the holiday season. Shift Your Shopping offers a simple, powerful way to boost our economy and preserve and create jobs in our local communities.
The campaign encourages residents to take job creation and economic concerns into their own hands by exercising their power to strengthen their own local economies. Numerous studies on the impact of buying from local independent business have found impressive benefits. For example, a 2008 study of Kent County Michigan by Civic Economics projected shifting 10% of the county's per capita spending from chains to locally-owned independent businesses would create "almost $140 million in new economic activity and 1,600 new jobs for the region."
To exemplify how a shift in shopping is a gift to our community, PVLF and its members have partnered with Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture (CISA) in a Think Local Thank Local effort to donate a portion of their sales during National Buy Local Week, November 25th through December 4th, to CISA's Emergency Farm Fund to assist those farmers who were affected by Tropical Storm Irene.
This growing list of members are participating in our Think Local, Thank Local campaign to help fund local farmers:
A 2 Z Science & Learning Store
Fran Johnson's golf and tennis
Nancy Howard Landscape & Garden Design
Pioneer Valley Fiberglass Pools and Spas
Pennyfarthing Investment Management, L.L.C.
Toward Harmony Tai Chi & Qigong
Their donations will be continually reinvested into our communities, creating jobs and putting local food on our tables for years to come.
This year marks the launch of an unprecedented collaboration among the American Independent Business Alliance (AMIBA) and Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE), two great advocates for local independent business by promoting the Shift Your Shopping Campaign. Representing over 38,000 locally owned and independent businesses across the U.S. and Canada. Shift Your Shopping kicked off November 1 and extends through the end of December. A list of national Shift Your Shopping events, participants, and resources can be found at ShiftYourShopping.org
Shift Your Shopping to a Local Independent Business, You're Not Just Getting a Great Gift You're Giving One to Our Community!
