CSBA in the news

08.14.07 – Mayor gives boost to small business, The Examiner
Noting the importance local businesses play in Baltimore’s communities, Mayor Sheila Dixon has announced a weeklong project that encourages residents, small businesses and large corporations to consider purchasing their goods and services from the city’s small and local merchants.

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07.09.07 – Mayor Sheila Dixon Announces Go Back To School And Buy Local Week
Citing the important role local businesses play in Baltimore neighborhoods, Mayor Sheila Dixon announced "Go Back to School and Buy Local Week," which will take place August 18 – 25, 2007. The campaign will be run and promoted by The Mayor's Office of Minority & Women-Owned Business Development in partnership with the Buy Local Baltimore program and the Main Streets Initiative.

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2006 Archive

12.11.06 – Made in Maryland, The Examiner
Make it easy on yourself this holiday season and focus your shopping energies on the bounties of our home state. “I do all of my Christmas shopping at local retailers,” Keith Losoya, a holiday consumer from Federal Hill, said. Losoya, also the executive director of Chesapeake Sustainable Business Alliance, will likely walk to the Guilded Peach to purchase local handmade jewelry for his wife, he said. “The more people take that opportunity to walk down their Main Street, the less they’ll jump in the car, and it is more economically and environmentally sustainable.”

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11.30.06 – Buy Baltimore campaign kicks off next week, The Examiner
Forget shopping at the mall, at least for next week. Instead, visit a local store — and help the environment at the same time. That’s the message of the Chesapeake Sustainable Business Alliance. The group encourages businesses to be environmentally responsible while encouraging consumers to shop at their local stores.

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11.29.06 – Push on to shop in the city, The Daily Record
The Chesapeake Sustainable Business Alliance and Baltimore Main Streets are both sponsoring events focused on bringing shoppers into city neighborhoods and away from national big-box stores and shopping malls.

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10.24.06 – CSBA Announces Buy Local Baltimore Week, December 2 to 9, 2006.
As part of its Buy Local Baltimore campaign, the Chesapeake Sustainable Business Alliance (CSBA), along with Mayor Martin O’Malley and the Baltimore City Council, announces Buy Local Baltimore Week, December 2 to 9, 2006. Buy Local Baltimore Week will occur during the National Buy Local Week when more than 20 cities in the US and Canada will be drawing attention to their locally owned businesses.* The Buy Local Baltimore Campaign is an education and marketing campaign that encourages area residents to shop at local, independently owned businesses (www.buylocalbaltimore.com).

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03.30.06 – Baltimore City Officially Recognizes Buy Local campaign!
Administered by the Chesapeake Sustainable Business Alliance (CSBA), the Baltimore Buy Local Campaign is open to local-and independently-owned private business in Baltimore region, who, through the financial support of CSBA's sponsors, are provided with significantly subsidized, professionally designed materials and publicity. By supporting the efforts of CSBA to educate the public on the importance of supporting Baltimore's local economy and to encourage businesses and consumers to be environmentally sustainable and socially responsible, Baltimore City joins in the vision for a sustainable global economy characterized by long-term economic empowerment and prosperity, economic justice, cultural diversity, and a healthy natural environment.

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