Did you shop a locally owned store in the last week? How about three different locally owned stores in the last month? Are there locally owned businesses you would miss if they were no longer available?
Then you may want to make a
conscious decision to take part in the 3/50 Project. The 3/50 Project is based on a consumer
making a decision to spend a total of $50 a month in three locally owned
businesses. Promoting the 3/50 Project
goal to shop locally and spend $50 per month doesn’t mean swearing off franchises. It is spending money in locally owned
businesses so more of the money stays in the local communities; for instance,
when $100 is spent in locally owned businesses $68 returns to the local economy
through taxes, payrolls and other expenditures.
If the same $100 is spent in a “big box” store $43 of the $100 remains
in the local community. The same $100
spent online returns zero dollars to the local community, according to the 3/50
Project founder Cinda Baxter.
Cinda Baxter, a retail writer,
penned a blog at the website www.alwaysupward.com
March 11, 2009, that ignited the 3/50 Project website by March 30,
2009. The Project has been written and
reported by The Wall Street Journal,
Consumer Reports and CNN to name a few.
Businesses can register to be part
of the 3/50 Project at www.the350project.net
supporting businesses of the 3/50 Project can also register at the
site. NRG (New Radio Group) Media is
listed as a supporter of the 3/50 Project.
NN.N (NewsoftheNorth, Inc.) has just registered and will take a few
weeks before it appears on the sponsor page.
The 3/50 project is just one way NN.N supports the local businesses that
support NN.N.
Another variety of the 3/50 Project
is the buy local campaign in
