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amy M.m.p. hurley a.k.a. Mm pHiLleh has been inextricably tied to this citteh of Philleh in Penn's Woods a.k.a. Lenapeh Countreh a.k.a. the Eastern Woodlands for thirty years now. During her childhood she travelled in from the suburbs after school and in the summers to her single mother's job running a youth arts and cultural program for recent immigrants and low-income youth in West Philadelphia. Due to her mother's involvement with this organization, she got her first taste of dancing in the street during city parades. She was a shy kid but had no problem dancing up to a cop and handing them a flag during these outdoor nomadic partehs as she experienced dems. As she grew, she switched her performances from the street to the stage performing with a semi-professional ballet company for almost a decade. Den, college happened. Work for a bank and assistant managing a whole foods co-op den followed. Her math skills, were knot improved in the least by either experience. Den, farming for a season on a Community-supported agriculture project called Red Hill Farm taught her why the land we all inhabit is so sacred and bountiful. This experience inspired both her involvement ith the Philadelphia Orchard Project as a founding boardmember and her return to Temple University for an M.S. in Community and Regional Planning. She most recently supervised a social enterprise in Wilmeh, DEh that employed youth aging out of the foster-care system. Da yuts taught her dat she teaches best by listening to peeble and sharing their storehs. Add to dat her love of talking to peebles, photographing and dancing in the street and she and cultOurvators began taking shaPe & nows duh storeh continues. Feel duh Mmomentum?
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theatlantic: Supporting Local Business with the Muscle of a ‘Cash Mob’ Saturday was a typical one in Brooklyn: the sidewalk crowded with fashionably dressed people chatting in the spring sunshine, discovering friends in common and business connections. But these people weren’t waiting for brunch at the latest hot local eatery. They had shown up to participate in a “cash mob,” an event to support local businesses that got started last year in Buffalo and Cleveland and has since spread across the country. The first National Cash Mob Day happened on March 24. Here’s the idea, inspired by the flash mob phenomenon: Put out the word on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media telling people where to meet and when. Then take the assembled group to a local store, where attendees can show their support by buying stuff. The business owner gets a financial boost and some publicity, and the cash mob participants get to feel good about where their money is going. […] Most of the participants had heard about the cash mob through friends, on Facebook, or on Meetup. And not all of them typically shop on principle rather than price. “I’m usually really stingy,” says a young woman who gave her name only as Rachel. She was carrying a gift-wrapped bag of sea-salt caramels. “I’m hesitant to buy at stores like this because they’re expensive. But it seems like a nice thing to do.” Read more at The Atlantic Cities. [Image: Sarah Goodyear]

theatlantic:

Supporting Local Business with the Muscle of a ‘Cash Mob’

Saturday was a typical one in Brooklyn: the sidewalk crowded with fashionably dressed people chatting in the spring sunshine, discovering friends in common and business connections.

But these people weren’t waiting for brunch at the latest hot local eatery. They had shown up to participate in a “cash mob,” an event to support local businesses that got started last year in Buffalo and Cleveland and has since spread across the country. The first National Cash Mob Day happened on March 24.

Here’s the idea, inspired by the flash mob phenomenon: Put out the word on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media telling people where to meet and when. Then take the assembled group to a local store, where attendees can show their support by buying stuff. The business owner gets a financial boost and some publicity, and the cash mob participants get to feel good about where their money is going. […]

Most of the participants had heard about the cash mob through friends, on Facebook, or on Meetup. And not all of them typically shop on principle rather than price.

“I’m usually really stingy,” says a young woman who gave her name only as Rachel. She was carrying a gift-wrapped bag of sea-salt caramels. “I’m hesitant to buy at stores like this because they’re expensive. But it seems like a nice thing to do.”

Read more at The Atlantic Cities. [Image: Sarah Goodyear]

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    Would love to organize something like this in #bloomsburg via The Bloomsburg Daily!
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    Brilliant concept, as are faremer’s markets. Shop local, shop often.
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