Practices
Members of local BALLE networks have a direct stake in the future of their communities and bioregions and include local business owners, non-profit leaders, government representatives, and engaged citizens. Members of Local Networks work together to:
- Support the growth and development of community-based business
- Encourage local purchasing by consumers and businesses
- Create opportunities for business leaders to network and share best practices
- Advocate public policies that strengthen independent local businesses and farms, promote economic equity, and protect the environment.
To support Local Networks, BALLE:
- Provides Local Networks with tools, business models, and other resources
- Links Local Living Economies to share best practices
- Promotes Local Living Economies through media, public forums, and partnerships
- Develops pilot initiatives to strengthen Local Living Economies
Read more about this topic: Business Alliance For Local Living Economies
Famous quotes containing the word practices:
“Of all reformers Mr. Sentiment is the most powerful. It is incredible the number of evil practices he has put down: it is to be feared he will soon lack subjects, and that when he has made the working classes comfortable, and got bitter beer into proper-sized pint bottles, there will be nothing left for him to do.”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)
“To learn a vocation, you also have to learn the frauds it practices and the promises it breaks.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practices and maxims; soon offended by contradiction or negligence; and impatient of any association but with those that will watch their nod, and submit themselves to unlimited authority.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)