AMIBA is building a strong Local Economy Movement through support, training, and advocacy nationwide.

We became a member of AMIBA in February of 2025 and have since participated in three campaigns: Choose Indie Sustainable, Choose Black-Owned & Choose Indie Pride Month. We are currently one of just two businesses in all of Illinois that are active members of AMIBA, so this membership means a lot to us!

We were proud to have been featured in multiple newsletters for our collaboration with Project Sun at their “Creating An Inclusive Community” event in May 2025.

Check out this article we were featured in:

https://chooseindielocal.substack.com/p/choose-black-owned-month

Everywhere Is Queer is a public resource (and ever-growing searchable map!) created for the LGBTQIA2S+ and ally community to find welcoming, queer-owned spaces to shop, connect, eat, learn, and grow all over the world… even in your own neighborhood!

Your community is waiting for you just around the corner.

The Everywhere Is Queer App features 17,000+ queer-owned businesses of all shapes and sizes and growing. The EIQ app is constantly-updated allowing you to find queer-owned businesses wherever you are in the world. Plus a job board, connecting you with your next best job that sees you as your most authentic self! Download the QUEER BIZ MAP using the links below to start finding your next fav queer-owned spot!

IOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/everywhere-is-queer/id6467166300

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.everywhereisqueer.app&pli=1

We have been a Founding Supporter of Everywhere Is Queer since February 2024 and have contributed $624 to the organization to date.

Boozhoo Books is a publishing imprint dedicated to uplifting diverse voices.

Naomi @fromthemixedupdesk is an Indigenous book content creator who is passionate about championing underrepresented voices in literature. Boozhoo means “Hello” in Anishinaabemowin.

We love what Naomi does for the Indigenous community, so we became a subscriber to the Boozhoo Bindery at the Enemies to Lovers level. We have been a subscriber since November of 2024 and have contributed $96 to date.

Bindery is a membership platform for tastemakers of the book world to cultivate community, champion the authors and stories that matter to them, and earn a sustainable income doing so from the most passionate members of their audience. Tastemakers with larger communities, upon invitation, may open a publishing imprint that surfaces new books by authors their communities will love. Bindery partners with the tastemaker to design their imprint brand, solicit submissions, and manage editorial, design, printing, publicity, and distribution to everywhere books are sold.

Follow Noami on Instagram using the link below for the best Indigenous books recommendations:

https://www.instagram.com/fromthemixedupdesk/

“Black people make up 15% of the US population. So, we asked businesses to dedicate 15% of their shelf space to Black-owned brands.”

The Pledge is an invitation to partners to give their valued community what they are asking for: variety and economic equality. The Pledge allows us to learn and grow together, led by a sustainable model for long-term change.

We became a monthly donor of the 15 Percent Pledge in February of 2025. To date, we have contributed $79.60 to the organization!

We make it our goal to ensure that at least 15% of the books we sell are by black authors, although we typically shoot for closer to 40%.

Representation matters.

In literature, and everywhere!

Learn more about the organization at the link below.

https://15percentpledge.org/