Registering Your Business Says: "WE'RE OPEN"
Save Your Local Small Businesses: Buy Local
The services outlined in this publication are free of charge to all participants. We support the collective actions of individuals directing their expenditures toward local businesses. Buying local is an important individual action that can save the local small businesses, our communities, and improve the quality of public services available to us. It is a very powerful community investment.
iBusiness Strong, d/b/a iBStrong, is a 501(c)(3) organization sub-classified under IRC section 170 dedicated to providing local small businesses a virtual platform that promotes shopping and buying from local businesses. According to the SBA, small businesses create 1.5 million jobs annually and account for 64% of new jobs created in the United States. Small businesses are the economic engine that can power-up your community with your support.
We understand that one size does not fit all. Most small businesses locations are as unique as their mission. Therefore, we believe that iBStrong initiative has to be driven locally, organically and from bottom-up. While striving for a strong local response, thinking nationally enables us to leverage the collective know-how of our activated locations to share best practices on small businesses coming back stronger post COVID-19.
We provide these services free-of-charge to all qualified local small businesses participants. The COVID-19 changed the way we interact with one-another and how we interact with and conduct business. These colossal seismic seasons decimated small business around the country. Our local small businesses are facing unthinkable dire and darkest business winter ever known to us. Together, we can help our small businesses come back stronger!
Operationalizes - Search & Go Shop Local Businesses
iBStrong is a non-profit virtual grass-root efforts designed to support local small businesses. Together, we can do our part by making conscious efforts to buy local whenever we can. Buying local supports our local schools, roads and our public services. Consumers spend is one of the powerful drivers that powers the US economy. It is the largest single variable that measures the health of the national economy. We need to turn that spending power to boost our local small businesses. The iBStrong site is designed to help you easily identify and connect with local small businesses in your community.
This initiative has four (4) Core Pillars:
1) Establishment of Regional/Community Shop Local Business Ambassador who leads the initiative: (Ambassador)
2) Establishment of Regional/Community Business Registry: (Registry)
3) Local shoppers patronizing the listed businesses on the Community Business Registry: (Local Shoppers)
4) Establishment of Regional/Community Business Classification: (Classification)
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