BUILDING POWER FOR COMMUNITY-FOCUSED, PEOPLE-CENTERED SMALL BUSINESSES AND LOCAL ECONOMIES.
Main Street Alliance is realizing small business owners’ full potential as leaders for a just, post-neoliberal future that prioritizes good jobs, equity, and community.
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Become A Member
When you become a member of Main Street Alliance, you are helping build a powerful, self-funded, multi-racial, small business membership organization that can shift our economic narrative, wield power, and win on the issues that matter most to small business owners, our employees, and communities.
Meet our members
melissa buchholz | Odd Duck
Melissa Buchholz is an MSA member, restaurant industry veteran, and co-founder of the Odd Duck restaurant in Milwaukee, WI with Ross Bachhuber. Their commitment to creativity, collaboration, and constant development has produced a dynamic and ever-changing restaurant. As an MSA member, Melissa has been leading the charge for civic engagement in her community. She used Odd Duck’s social platform to implement a successful GOTV tactic on Voter Registration Day. Learn more about Odd Duck here.
Alyshia Jackson | 1st class cleaning Services
Alyshia Jackson is an MSA member and owner of 1st Class Cleaning Services in Golden Valley, MN. 1st Class Cleaning Services is a certified, woman-owned, minority business offering post-construction and commercial cleaning services, built on quality customer care and attention to detail. As an MSA member, Alyshia has been leading civic engagement efforts in her community by implementing the GOTV tactics from our civic engagement toolkit. Learn more about 1st Class Cleaning here.
Take Action Now!
One of the major challenges entrepreneurs confront is lack of quality, affordable capital. Banks favor large corporations over independent businesses -- and, with racial and gender discrimination widespread, they are making it especially hard for entrepreneurs of color and women entrepreneurs of all races to launch and expand their own businesses. Add your name to a set of principles to support equitable access to capital for small businesses.
Core Issues
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CARE ECONOMY
Create a level playing field for small businesses and their employees by supporting federal programs for paid family and medical leave as well as child care
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TAX FAIRNESS
Both an equitable tax code, and also to ensure we have the revenue needed for robust public investments
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CAPITAL ACCESS
Create new and improve existing capital access options for small business owners, especially those systematically left out of traditional options, including BIPOC and women business owners
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ANTI-MONOPOLY
Tackle corporate concentration of power in the market and politics, which is detrimental to the growth and development of small businesses
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HEALTH CARE
We need a universal health care system built on care, not profit.
Member Resources
Access training, exclusive events, services, and vendor deals for members of Main Street Alliance.
Our Theory of Change
Small business owners represent the diverse fabric of our country. By connecting leadership development, organizing at scale, and a data-driven narrative shift, Main Street Alliance is engaging small business owners to achieve a level of impact locally, statewide, and nationally. We’re strengthening the small business sector to create an equitable and vibrant economy for all.