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Our Community
The Seacoast region of New Hampshire and southern Maine is a very unique place to live. The culture, people, and events keep an engaged community of citizens supporting each other and proud of where we live, work, play, and eat!
We serve: Barrington · Dover · Durham · Eliot · Exeter · Greenland · Hampton · Kensington · Kittery · Lee · Madbury · North Hampton · New Castle · Newfields · Newmarket · Portsmouth · Rollinsford · Rye · Somersworth · South Berwick · South Hampton · Seabrook · Stratham · York
These towns and cities are home to a fabulous network of interconnected entrepreneurial-minded businesses and non-profits working to improve our quality of life, and at www.seacoastlocal.org, we’ve listed local resources dedicated to local food, energy, manufacturing, arts and culture, and business support and more.
We also work with local-first networks on a national and regional scale to achieve our mission.
Seacoast Local is a steering committee member of the New England Local Business Forum, a coalition of local business organizations committed to building strong local economies. Representatives from throughout New England meet twice a year to share information and create collaborative programs that help grow our regional economy. The 10% Shift and North American Shift Your Shopping campaign grew out of this collaboration. Meet our neighbors at www.nelbf.org.
Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) joins together more nearly 80 local networks like ours from all over North America, bringing together local business leaders to share ideas and learn how to effectively strengthen local economies and preserve the health of local communities. Articles, studies, and other resources for the local-first movement can be found on the BALLE web site, www.livingeconomies.org.
The Institute for Local Self-Reliance works to strengthen communities through the smart utilization of local resources. Their web site offers public policy resources on a whole range of issues, and their New Rules project proposes a set of new rules that builds community by supporting humanly scaled politics and economics, online at www.newrules.org.