The American Independent Business Alliance is a national 501c3 non-profit organization helping communities launch and successfully operate an Independent Business Alliance® (IBA), "buy independent, buy local" campaigns, and other efforts to support community enterprise.

Finally, someone's saying what we've all been thinking. Don't throw out all the lessons you've heard from a previous generation of business-makers and owners, just remember you're not running their kind of business. This is the new way of approaching work, the future of entrepreneurship, and a massive call to believe in yourself. Brief, to the point, and fantastically illustrated... with a Sharpie.

Inspired by the village bank model used in microfinance throughout the world, Village Capital is an innovative investment model built on the hypothesis that entrepreneurs, working intimately together and providing peer support to one another, will be able to efficiently and wisely allocate investment to one another’s companies.

Changemakers is a community of action where we all collaborate on solutions. We know we have the power to solve the world’s most pressing social problems. We’re already doing it, one project, one idea at a time.