Growing Local Value How to Build Business Partnerships That Strengthen Your Community

"Drawing on real-world examples from Greyston Bakery, Wild Planet Toys, Powell's Books, and many other companies, Laury Hammel and Gun Denhart show how you can leverage every aspect of your business - from product creation to employee recruitment, vendor selection, and raising capital - to benefit both the community and the bottom line. Growing Local Value explores in depth how your business can contribute to its community - and the benefits it will receive when it does."--BOOK JACKET.Hammel, Laury is the author of 'Growing Local Value How to Build Business Partnerships That Strengthen Your Community', published 2006 under ISBN 9781576753712 and ISBN 1576753719.