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The following resources highlight the value that small businesses bring to a community:

  • Philadelphia Inquirer May 3, 2008 article entitled "As a Home Depot closes, a pair of local hardware stores survive. 2 Davids help topple Goliath."
  • Entrepreneurship and Urban Success: Toward A Policy Consensus, February 2008 by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. To view this 27 page report, see the PDF that is attached at the bottom of this page.
  • Michael Shuman - is Vice President for Enterprise Development at the Training & Development Corporation and the author of several publications including The Small-Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses Are Beating The Global Competition.
  • Stacy Mitchell - is a senior researcher with the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and author of Big-Box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for American's Independent Businesses
  • Growing Local Value How To Build Business Partnerships That Strengthen Your Community by Laury Hammel and Gun Denhart, (2007).
  • "Light a Store, Save a Town," Forbes Small Business July/August 2008.
  • Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future by BIll McKibben (2007)
  • Community: The Structure of Belonging by Peter Block (2008)


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posted by meapaman   May 17 2008, 4:26 PM EDT
February 2008 report by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation