Did you know…

92% of state residents say they would buy more Colorado products if they were identified as being from Colorado.* – *Survey USA, Sept 2013

Local spending keeps 3 times more money in Colorado.

Studies conducted by Civic Economics in Maine, California and Chicago demonstrate that when one dollar is spent at a local independent business generally three times more money is re-spent in the local economy versus shopping at a non-local business. More money is kept in the community because locally owned businesses often purchase from other local businesses, service providers and farms. Purchasing locally helps grow other businesses as well as the local tax base.

Locals donate more to nonprofits.

Nonprofit organizations receive an average of 350% greater support from local business owners than they do from non-locally owned businesses.

Local businesses help create a more sustainable economy.

Local independent businesses often use fewer subsidies to develop and are less likely to relocate in slow economic times.

Local shopping reduces environmental impacts.

Local stores help to sustain vibrant, compact, walkable town centers – which in turn are essential to reducing sprawl, automobile use, habitat loss, and air and water pollution.

Locals are neighborhood advocates, caretakers and watchdogs.

Main Street business owners are part of what the great urbanist, Jane Jacobs, calls “eyes on the street” local store owners look out of their shop windows, develop relationships with the community and make our neighborhoods safer and stronger.

Locals can make decisions driven by their conscience, not decisions driven by shareholders.

Large corporations are legally bound to maximize shareholder profits. Nobel Award-Winning economist, Milton Friedman has noted that it is immoral for a large corporation to do otherwise. Smaller businesses, that have no shareholders and are free to make decisions that includes the well-being of their employees, neighborhood and the environment.

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