TLC September Newsletter: Community Owned Businesses

Published: Thu, 09/09/21

TLC SEPTEMBER NEWSLETTER
Community Owned Businesses

We're thrilled to share that a newly released book, Community Owned Businesses: International Entrepreneurship, Finance, and Economic Development edited By Norman Walzer, includes a chapter about The Local Crowd.

Eleven chapters highlight a diversity of community owned businesses from around the world, including community owned pubs in Great Britain, city-owned grocery store in Kansas, and a community capacity building enterprise in Taiwan.

Read the beginning of our chapter:

Community Led Crowdfunding Fosters Rural Prosperity & Resiliency

Best,
Di, Kim, Amanda, Jen, Katelyn & Debbie

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