Pennsylvania Fresh Food Financing Initiative
Since it was created 2004, the Pennsylvania Fresh Food Financing Initiative (FFFI) has financed 84 grocery stores in underserved urban and rural communities across the state. Almost all of these stores...
View ArticleAccess to Financing for Small Businesses
While chain retailers and other large corporations have access to financing through the capital markets (which many of us help fund through our retirement plans and other investments), independent...
View ArticleHow San Francisco is Dealing With Chains
No other large American city has done as much to check the spread of chain stores as San Francisco. Under a city law enacted in 2006, a “formula” retail store or restaurant cannot open in any of the...
View ArticlePennsylvania Fresh Food Financing Initiative
Since it was created 2004, the Pennsylvania Fresh Food Financing Initiative (FFFI) has financed 84 grocery stores in underserved urban and rural communities across the state. Almost all of these stores...
View ArticleHow San Francisco is Dealing With Chains
No other large American city has done as much to check the spread of chain stores as San Francisco. Under a city law enacted in 2006, a “formula” retail store or restaurant cannot open in any of the...
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Access to Capital for Local Businesses
A significant share of locally owned businesses are struggling to secure the financing they need to grow. Our 2014 Independent Business Survey found that 42 percent of local businesses that needed a...
View ArticlePennsylvania Fresh Food Financing Initiative
Since it was created 2004, the Pennsylvania Fresh Food Financing Initiative (FFFI) has financed 84 grocery stores in underserved urban and rural communities across the state. Almost all of these stores...
View ArticlePennsylvania Fresh Food Financing Initiative
Since it was created 2004, the Pennsylvania Fresh Food Financing Initiative (FFFI) has financed 84 grocery stores in underserved urban and rural communities across the state. Almost all of these stores...
View ArticlePennsylvania Fresh Food Financing Initiative
Since it was created 2004, the Pennsylvania Fresh Food Financing Initiative (FFFI) has financed 84 grocery stores in underserved urban and rural communities across the state. Almost all of these stores...
View ArticleHow San Francisco is Dealing With Chains
San Francisco is home to more independent businesses than other big cities, thanks in part to a 2006 law than gives neighborhoods the power to reject "formula" retail stores and restaurants. But the...
View ArticleIn The Atlantic: Amazon’s Big Secret
Amazon has long cultivated the idea that it runs its shopping platform at razor-thin margins, relying instead on AWS for its profits. In fact, Amazon’s e-commerce marketplace is enormously profitable....
View Article$100,000 Funding Opportunity for BIPOC-Led and BIPOC-Serving Composters
ILSR is partnering with 11th Hour Racing to provide $100,000 in sub-grants to selected BIPOC-led or BIPOC-serving composting projects in New England. … Read More
View ArticleFinanciación de $100,000 para compostadores dirigidos por BIPOC o que prestan...
El Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) lanzará el Programa de Minisubvenciones para Compostadores Comunitarios que pertenezcan a la agrupación de personas negras, indígenas y de color....
View ArticleDetroit Has No Time to Waste Food
A Detroit entrepreneur explains how her pilot projects are building community, local self-reliance, and resilience. … Read More
View ArticleTown Hall Featuring FTC Chair Lina Khan Draws Hundreds of Small Businesses
Hundreds of independent businesses from across the country tuned into a virtual town hall — featuring Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan — to mark the progress and build momentum to rein in...
View Article$100,000 in Grants Going to BIPOC-led and BIPOC-serving Community Composters
“This dedicated focus on BIPOC-led and BIPOC-serving community composters is long overdue,” said Brenda Platt, director of ILSR’s Composting for Community Initiative, about the grant program.… Read More
View ArticleArizona’s High Stakes Utility Election — Episode 205 of Local Energy Rules
Charlie Fisher discusses the upcoming Salt River Project election and how clean energy advocates could flip the public utility's board and reverse anti-solar and anti-democratic policies.… Read More
View ArticleThe 2024 Community Power Scorecard
Communities can do a lot to advance energy democracy, but some tools must be granted by state policy. This annual scorecard from ILSR’s Energy Democracy Initiative surveys a suite of 18 policies that...
View ArticleIt Takes an Avalon Village
Avalon Village is a testament to the resilience of communities and the transformative power of collective action.… Read More
View ArticleResponse to FTC report on grocery supply chain disruptions during COVID-19
We hope that this study will be followed in short order by renewed enforcement of the Robinson-Patman Act,” Stacy Mitchell says in the statement.… Read More
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