MEMBER INVOLVEMENT
Pick Three. Spend $50. Save Our Local Economy.
Which three local businesses would you miss if they closed their doors? Maybe it’s a restaurant where you can grab the best sandwiches in town. Perhaps it’s the boutique down the street where you can always find that perfect gift. Or, is it your own small businesses that could use a boost?
The 3/50 Project can help.
Founder Cinda Baxter, a Minneapolis-based retail consultant, began the project early in 2009 with a short blog post. Her idea was simple: if half of the employed U.S. population chose
three locally owned independent businesses they would hate to lose, and then spent a combined total of
$50 a month with them, it would have a major impact—generating an estimated
$42.6 billion of revenue annually. Now, that idea has quickly become an international movement to support locally owned business – The 3/50 Project.
“No one has talked this through with consumers,” Baxter says. “The experts all talk in terms of macro or micro¬economics—not how consumers talk to each other over the dinner table. We simply say, ‘Here’s the impact.’ It really resonates that even a small amount of spending can make a big difference.”
According to The Project, for every
$100 spent in locally owned stores, $68 remains in the local economy through taxes, payroll and other expenditures. In contrast,
only $43 of every $100 remains local when spent in national chains, and little or no local revenue results from online purchases. That is a lot of money staying right where you live, work and play every day.
GreaterFindlayInc. has chosen to support and promote this cause, and asks that you and your organization consider doing the same. It’s easy to become involved:
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Log onto www.the350project.net, and sign up to listed as an official partner – great publicity – and we’ll put your organization’s name on our website as well!
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Browse the online library of free resources - including everything from window clings and PSAs, to logos and flyers. Inform your customers and associates about the impact they can make.
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Follow The 3/50 Project on Twitter at
@cindabaxter and use its hashtag,
#350proj, or visit them on Facebook at
www.facebook.com/The350Project. Create buzz and spread the news.
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Shop at locally-owned stores, eat at independent restaurants and use local services: Remember – Pick
three, spend
$50 and save our local economy.
Each local purchase supports the Findlay•Hancock Community, strengthens our economy and helps our friends and neighbors that own those businesses. You can begin your search for local merchants with GreaterFindlayInc,’s Chamber of Commerce Member Directory online by clicking
here.
Join us in strengthening our community. Think before you spend – buy local and help us support The 3/50 Project!