We're working to localize Seattle's economy.
We believe our best hope for a creating real and lasting prosperity is a bottom-up reclaiming of our economies and communities. Join the hundreds of other local businesses, entrepreneurs, farmers, investors, and citizens who are committed to buying, producing, and investing locally.
Together, we're building a resilient, vibrant, and inclusive local economy.
OUR PROGRAMS
Every spring and fall, over 50 restaurants and 1000s of residents connect over great locally sourced food.
A comprehensive resource for local businesses seeking local capital to grow.
From utility savings to materials exchange, we've helped dozens of owners green their business.
OTHER GOOD STUFF
What would it take to truly transform Seattle’s bifurcated economy—with its growing and deeply damaging inequities—to a community-based economy that is more democratic, diverse, and resilient? With support from the Seattle Foundation, we’re convening a crack team of local economy leaders to collect and vet their best, most inspiring ideas.
The challenges we face, from climate change, to growing inequities, to political disfunction are tightly connected. In The Case for Local, read more about how places with thriving concentrations of small and mid-sized community owned businesses are havens of hope and models for more democratic, diverse, and resilient economies.
Could Seattle rebuild its sewn-goods industry based on the principles of sustainability and equity? With support from the Duwamish River Opportunity Fund, we’re working with a large group of local designers, manufacturers, service providers, and non-profits to map the current landscape of sewn-goods manufacturing in Seattle, with the goal of developing a road map for a revitalized, next-generation industry.
Promoting and supporting hundreds of local makers of everything from beer to belts to beds.