Our Promises to Members
We agree, as organizational leaders, to provide the best service and conduct for our members:
- Serve as a network of local businesses and social entrepreneurs.
- Seek to nurture our local living economy.
- Be autonomous and independent.
- Reflect our passions for sustainable local and living economies.
- Work for economic justice and environmental improvement.
- Bring together businesses and nonprofit organizations around the region who seek to enhance their sustainability.
- Conduct ourselves as a charitable, nonprofit venture.
- Support our community by providing sustainable local businesses with commercial contacts, education, and enterprise-strengthening resources.
- Act as an alliance to represent our members' views and interests.
- Be an inclusive "big tent" that values diverse perspectives.
- Provide models for best practices.
- Operate in alignment with the principles of Social Venture Network and BALLE.
