A conversation between ILSR and Main Street America based on ILSR's new report outlining ideas for using American Rescue Plan money to support small businesses.
ILSR's Kennedy Smith moderated a panel about how cities can leverage federal recovery funds to revitalize their commercial districts, create small businesses, and reduce inequality.
In Governing, ILSR's Kennedy Smith and Santa Cruz County Supervisor Ryan Coonerty examine how cities can create affordable space for local businesses and support entrepreneurship.
Dozens of locally based alternatives to the big third-party delivery apps have debuted during the pandemic, proving that in the food-delivery sector, local is better.
We lay out 24 policy recommendations across a 6-point agenda to enable independent businesses to weather the pandemic and thrive and grow in its aftermath.
ILSR Senior Researcher Kennedy Smith talked to the Mayors' Institute on City Design about how to help Main Street businesses survive the pandemic.
Small business funding is running out. Congress should address the crisis facing small business by quickly providing the resources local governments need to support them.
ILSR's latest report describes 26 actions that community leaders can adopt to help small businesses weather the Covid-19 pandemic crisis.
Wall Street-funded delivery services are taking a huge bite out of restaurants' meager revenues. Restaurant owners are desperate and furious — and cities are pushing...
Host Jess Del Fiacco talks with Kennedy Smith, Senior Researcher with ILSR’s Independent Business initiative, about efforts at the state and local level to support...
ILSR built a list of grant and loan programs that helped small, locally owned businesses weather the COVID-19 pandemic.
Post this around town, and share it on social media. We can all do our part to help support small businesses weather the Covid-19 pandemic.
Here are the steps local and state governments have taken so far to shelter small businesses from the coronavirus’s vast economic turmoil.
The coronavirus pandemic has created a crisis for America’s locally owned businesses, the backbone of the nation’s economy. Here are some things you can do.
Small businesses are finding creative ways to stay afloat during the pandemic. Here are additional resources they can use to survive this crisis.