Criteria
Please take a few moments to review our criteria for membership. If you answer yes to the questions below, we invite you to become a Qualified Business or Organization member of Local First Alliance. If not, we encourage you to join as an individual at the same level to receive all the benefits of business membership, with the exception of marketing and promotional benefits. (You can also join as an individual if you do not own a local business or represent a local nonprofit organization. Best of all, become a program underwriter to support our work and your business or organization.)
For businesses, are you...?- Interested in and able to buy materials, products and services from other locally owned businesses in the area or broader region?
- Privately held (not publicly traded)?
- Registered in the state of New Hampshire or Vermont, with no corporate or national headquarters outside of the respective state?
- Able to make independent decisions regarding name and appearance, as well as all business purchasing, supply, and distribution practices?
- At least 50% of ownership lives within Local First Alliance's 69-town service area?
- Interested in and able to buy materials, products and services from other locally owned businesses in the area or broader region?
- Incorporated or fiscally sponsored in the state of New Hampshire or Vermont?
- Leadership (advisory body, board, staff) has autonomous authority over all operational decisions?
- At least 50% of leadership (advisory body, board, staff) lives within Local First Alliance's 69-town service area?
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© 2012 Local First Alliance, an initiative of Vital Communities.
© 2012 Local First Alliance, an initiative of Vital Communities.