The organization has been forced to cancel it’s two biggest annual fundraisers, but it continues to support the city’s local restaurant industry.
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The organization has been forced to cancel it’s two biggest annual fundraisers, but it continues to support the city’s local restaurant industry.
Perhaps not surprisingly, topics of discussion mirrored the diverse mix of folks who came together for the daylong event at A-B Tech’s Enka campus: small-business owners, investors, employees and assorted individuals with an interest in collective prosperity.
HandMade in America, the Asheville-based nonprofit that brought Western North Carolina crafts new attention, was born in the mind of Becky Anderson in 1993. The area native married the idea of place-based economics to the artistry of the region’s craft tradition, placing new emphasis on how to support handmade crafts and their creators as an […]