Growing Local Value: How to Build Business Partnerships That Strengthen Your Community

by Laury Hammel, Gun Denhart

Growing a successful business is about meeting the needs of customers—and, by extension, the needs of the entire community. Turn your business into a good citizen and you can help ensure its success and contribute to making your community a great place to live and work. Growing Local Value shows how to build a values-driven business that is deeply embedded in local life.

Drawing on real-world examples from Greyston Bakery, Wild Planet Toys, Powell’s Books, and many other companies, Laury Hammel and Gun Denhart show how you can leverage every aspect of your business—from product creation to employee recruitment, vendor selection, and raising capital—to benefit both the community and the bottom line. Growing Local Value explores in depth how your business can contribute to its community—and the benefits it will receive when it does.

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

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[Laura · Rating 2 out of 5]

Stories of businesses who have developed ways to contribute to the communities in which they are based.