What is BIBA?
The Boulder Independent Business Alliance
is a cooperative effort of local independent businesses to help
each other prosper and contribute to a healthy, stable local
economy. The effort was launched in 1997 to respond to the increasing
loss of community-based businesses to national chains.
BIBA
aims to reverse this trend by organizing collaborative efforts
among members and creating a stronger bond of support that few
businesses could accomplish individually. Shared advertising
and promotions and group purchasing gives members some advantages
the chains enjoy without compromising independence. Members
also gain from BIBA's promotion of the interdependence of independent
businesses, particularly between members.
What do we do?
BIBA works to shift more dollars to
community-based businesses by providing information to help
people make fully informed decisions about where they spend
their money and recognize the full value that those businesses
provide Boulder County.
BIBA also advocates for independent business owners as their
voice in local policy decisions toward encouraging and nurturing
an environment for local entrepreneurs. More than 130 local
businesses in Boulder County are part of the alliance, including
some of its most cherished and respected.
28,000 biannual BIBA Guides are currently distributed annually
to Boulder County residents through our member businesses, information
kiosks, local lodging sites, and through selected neighborhoods.
The Community Benefit Card program,
launched early in 2001, provides cardholders with discounts
at over half of our member businesses. Business owners
are gaining new customers, and patrons have another incentive
to do business locally.
BIBA is a nonprofit organization funded by member businesses
and community supporters. |
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Please contact Xian
Izquierdo, Director, if you have comments or questions. |
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