May Small
Business Month
bringing true small business owners to Capitol Hill
May 8
WELCOME TO MAIN STREET ALLIANCE.
Together, we're building a better future for small businesses and their communities.
Become a member
Take Action
Paid Leave
We must ensure access to paid leave when people need time away for serious personal health or family issues so that no one has to make the choice between economic security and their families.
Featured Small
Business Leader
Pooja Mehta,
The Marigold Effect
Pooja is the founder of The Marigold Effect, a business focused on promoting justice, diversity, and equity in the investment and business sectors. Her interest in social justice in entrepreneurship is influenced by her background as the daughter of immigrants who successfully started a business. Pooja has experience as a lawyer, entrepreneur, investor, photographer, and business advisor. She also mentors entrepreneurs, advises nonprofit leaders and serves as a board member for a nonprofit advocating for change to the juvenile legal system. Pooja joined Main Street Alliance because she wants to be part of a community of people who support small businesses and understands their importance in our communities. She is interested in how our collective power can make capital more accessible to small businesses.
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.
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.
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.
Why we fight
WE’RE WORKING TOWARDS A MORE JUST ECONOMY AND A MORE INCLUSIVE SOCIETY.
In the aftermath of COVID, the uprising, insurrections, mass shootings, and economic instability – things feel dark. Many small business owners are faced with various forms of uncertainty for themselves, their employees, and their businesses. We at Main Street Alliance remain committed to organizing and building power for a more just economy and working towards a more inclusive society.
Justice, equity, and sustainability are central to our theory of change for the small business communities we serve. Main Street Alliance is committed to building a small business organization that represents the social fabric of the communities we serve, specifically, BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and those living in rural communities. MSA leads with values rooted in equity and inclusion, focusing on underrepresented people. We live out these values externally and internally across our community organizing, policy strategy, staff recruitment, and retention.
Member Resources
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