Since Xpress featured Ujamaa Freedom Market in the September Women in Business issue, project organizers have launched a campaign on crowd-funding site GoFundMe. So far, they’ve raised 20 percent of their goal.
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Declaration of independence: Ditched by corporate HQ, Asheville print company reopens as independent
When a California-based printing corporation decided to shutter its Asheville branch in May, the local owner of the business and his laid-off workers had a reply: not so fast.
Matching tasks with talent: Geaux Girls (and guys) put a spin on service
Taryn Gentry calls her business a concierge service, but really she’s a matchmaker. It’s just that instead of matching sweethearts, she’s busy hitching tasks with talent.
Small-business lending: Growing the local economy, one loan at a time
Businesses need capital to grow. And strong local economies need ways to grow local businesses. But as local business owner Kudzai Mabunda learned, getting the money can be an arduous and frustrating process.
Missing link: The gaps in the sustainable economy
From a desk in a former public-housing unit across from the W.C. Reid Center, Marilyn Bass ponders what a sustainable economy should look like.
Rooftop resources
It’s not every day that a local small business gets its product tested by a hurricane. But Living Roofs Inc., a local company founded 2006 by Kathryn Blatt Ancaya and Emilio Ancaya, got just that
Shared creation: Building a better future from Asheville’s margins
In Asheville’s thirst for sustainability, it's easy to forget that a third of the city's workers are low-wage, and in some neighborhoods, survival is the top priority.
Co-creating the New Economy
“Corporate capitalism is unable to meet the needs of people and planet,” says economist and independent nonprofit organizer Howard Nemon. On April 10, he introduced Ashevilleans to the “New Economy,” an enterprising initiative that strives “to find an economic structure that works for everyone.”
The Breckheimer’s investing odyssey comes home
Fifteen years ago, it was hard to find financial advisors specializing in responsible investing, so Katie and Steve Breckheimer became members of Co-Op America (now Green America) and began looking in the National Green Pages.
Lending locally: CDFIs help keep your investments at home
In the early 1980s, a group of nuns laid the groundwork for what is now a growing movement to invest locally.
Get your shop on
There are eight shopping days left, people. This is no time to rest on your laurels. Luckily, the opportunities to score cool, unique, local gifts are abundant this weekend.
Twitter coverage: 11th Annual Asheville Metro Economic Outlook
This post provides twitter-based coverage of the 11th Annual Asheville Metro Economic Outlook, which took place Wednesday evening, July 28, 2010. Above: A graph showing the rate of employment change since January 2007. According to local economist Tom Tveidt, the area is only 600 jobs away from experiencing positive growth.