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This is a great time to join Homegrown El Paso!

Beginning September 11, new members will be able to join Homegrown El Paso for 2010 and receive a membership for 2011 as well. This membership includes a listing on our website, and in the Homegrown Business Directory, that is published in February of 2011.

WHY JOIN HOMEGROWN EL PASO BUSINESS ALLIANCE?

  • Membership in Homegrown El Paso offers an exciting opportunity to be a participant in a national movement to create a new economic model, built on local ownership.  From small towns to urban centers through North America and around the world, communities are launching revolutionary economic principles on which the GO LOCAL campaigns are based.  Homegrown is working to engage the total community in the process of economic renewal and inspire each other to take action.
  • “The comeback will be from the ground up and will start with innovation.  No one trusts big anymore.  In the future everything will be local.  That’s where the magic will be.  And no amount of pessimism will stop it once it starts.”Peggy Noonan, “Remembering the Dawn of the Age of Abundance,” Wall Street Journal, 1.20.2009

WHAT ARE YOUR MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS?

  • An annual listing in the membership’s local business directory that is distributed citywide.
  • Homegrown provides an online listing of your business on www.homegrownelpaso.com  and includes a direct link to your business website.  Member’s scheduled events are listed on the website calendar.
  • Homegrown provides the membership printed “Homegrown El Paso” materials, including posters, window/door decals, vehicle signs, bumper stickers and flyers that publicly emphasize the importance of patronizing local businesses.
  • An annual Business 2 Business event that provides an opportunity for all Homegrown Businesses to showcase their products and services .
  • An opportunity to build relationships with other local business owners during monthly Breakfast Meetings, designed to highlight member businesses.
  • Monthly news reports that updates the membership about Homegrown El Paso events and advertising offers.
  • Homegrown will email your business announcements and discounts to all member businesses.
  • Members qualify for Homegrown El Paso media partnerships, including KVIA, to provide affordable advertising for their businesses.
  • Members are invited to participate during “Independent’s Week,” an annual national campaign that promotes independent local businesses across the United States.
  • Homegrown El Paso is a member of the American Independent Businesses Alliance. This allows Homegrown to stay current with information helpful for promoting local businesses.

MEMBERSHIP CRITERIA:

  • A majority of a business must be owned by El Paso area residents. (We define the El Paso area as El Paso County and the area of southern New Mexico that is a local call from El Paso.)
  • Full decision making authority for this business (no franchises, distributorships, etc.) lies with its local owners. 

TYPE OF MEMBERSHIP:

  • Local not-for-profit organization ($100.00/year)
  • 10 or fewer employees ($150/year)
  • 11 – 50 employees ($200.00/ year)
  • 51 + employees ($250/year)

Make checks payable to:  

Homegrown El Paso  or use Master Card or Visa

For more information contact Nancy at contactme@homegrownelpaso.com or 240-8804

Welcome our latest members

Welcome to Homegrown

Who are we?

El Paso is certainly not the only place in the country where the movement to support locally owned, independent businesses is growing. Groups similar to Homegrown El Paso have been formed all over the U.S. in recent years.

Many of these groups, including Homegrown El Paso, are members of the American Independent Business Alliance (AMIBA). AMIBA has over 35 member organizations all over the country from California to Maine. In 2007, the alliance hosted its first-ever annual gathering of local alliance members in Austin. Two Homegrown El Paso board members, Don Baumgardt and Ted Escobedo, paid their own travel expenses to attend the event and share ideas with peers from coast to coast.

Our Mission Statement

Homegrown El Paso in a membership organization that works to support the efforts of the El Paso area’s locally owned independent businesses to compete in an increasingly global environment. Homegrown El Paso educates the area’s population on the benefits of buying from local businesses, promotes the members of our organization as being locally owned, independent businesses, and educates our members to provide a level of product quality and service that earns the support of local consumers.

 

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