Lowcountry Local First

Raise your hand if you’re excited to attend the 11th annual Good Business Summit!  🙋🏾

We’re less than a month out from this inspiring and impactful event featuring over 20 speakers, 2 keynote sessions, and 2 afternoon breakout opportunities. And don’t forget, breakfast, lunch and happy hour are included!

📅 Thursday, February 22, 2024
📍 Charleston Music Hall

🎟️ Save $20 on day-of tickets by buying your tickets now!
- LLF member: $60
- Non-member: $90

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Thanks for kicking off the new year with us at the Good Business Season Local Social last week!

We sipped brews from , noshed on tasty bites from and connected with both familiar and new faces.

We especially enjoyed hearing from you all about the many ways you’re localizing your business spending - let’s keep that going strong in 2024!

Mark your calendars and join us for the first Local Social of 2024 next week hosted at our home base, ! Learn how you can localize your business for the new year.

Thursday, January 11, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
Local Works
1859 Summerville Ave #800
Charleston, SC 29405

Light bites provided by  and sips provided by

Registration is required. NO COST for LLF member businesses or their employees. Non-member cost is $20/person.

Here is a sneak preview of photos from last week when we celebrated 27 NEW graduates of our Fall 2023 Community Business Academy. 🎓👏🎉

These entrepreneurs worked hard for 12 weeks on their ideas and business plans. They inspire us and we can’t wait to keep working together as they grow their businesses and change this community for the better.  🥳

Keep an eye out on our page for the full album which will be published in the new year. A special thank you to for capturing these beautiful photos, and to the for partnering with us to provide hands-on training in business planning and management for existing and aspiring entrepreneurs of diverse backgrounds. 🤝 

       

What a holly, jolly way to celebrate the season with our team and pals! I think we saw 87% of the Lowcountry at last night and what a party it was! These fine folks are a big part of the driving force behind our mission. Thank you for entrusting us to do what we do every day!

(TLP) is a Southern food culture magazine that tells the stories behind the people, places, and foodways that make up this diverse and dynamic culinary region. Through their stories, recipes, events, and online shop, , they connect us to the people and products they cover, giving us the opportunity to experience these stories first-hand. 📚

The team at TLP supports the mission of Lowcountry Local First every day, and we’re proud to also call them our coworking neighbors at . We asked their team to shout-out their favorite local products offered in their online marketplace — and we have to agree these are great items to consider for the foodie-lover on your gift list! 😋

To read all about their favorite foodie finds, head over to our blog at lowcountrylocalfirst.org/news. 📰

We are excited to announce our Creative Kickoff Speaker for the 2024 Good Business Summit, Kathryn Budig!✨

Kathryn is an internationally celebrated yoga teacher, author, publisher and editor-in-chief of Inky Phoenix Press, and founder of the online communities Haus of Phoenix and The Inky Phoenix.

With nearly two decades of experience in her field, Budig co-hosts the Webby Award nominated podcast, Free Cookies, served as the yoga editor to Women’s Health magazine for five years, contributed recipes and sat on the Yahoo Health Advisory Board, and regularly contributed to Yoga Journal and MindBodyGreen.

She is the creator of the Aim True Yoga DVD, author of The Women’s Health Big Book of Yoga, and best-selling Aim True. She lives in Charleston, SC with her wife, Kate Fagan, and their dog, Ragnar.

We can’t wait to see how she’ll set the tone and start our day of learning at .

🎟️ Early Bird Tickets available through Dec 31, 2023
- LLF member: $40 😮
- Non-member: $70

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Today we went outside and focused inward. Grateful for these moments of pause during this busy season to remind us of what matters. Connection, community, wellbeing, .. fun! Thank you to .l.bailey for joining us and guiding our conversations.

We’re here to make holiday shopping easy this weekend! 🎁

Here are just a few of the over 25 local vendors you’ll find at the Mingle with the Makers & Friends Holiday Market this Sunday, December 3rd from 1-4pm at and .

Can’t wait to see you there!

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👆These fine folks are committed to shopping local this holiday season. We hope these suggestions will inspire you to do the same!


























  

You know that supporting local businesses is the key to making this community the kind of place you’re proud to call home. Lowcountry Local First works hard every day to lift up and support emerging entrepreneurs, seeding community change through local business ownership.

By giving today, $50, $65, $185 — or any amount that you are able — you are giving an emerging entrepreneur advice, support and access to a robust and supportive community that lasts all year.

Help us reach our end-of-year goal to raise $30,000 and create a lasting impact for dozens of local entrepreneurs such as Twanica Hazel, Owner of and graduate of the Good Enterprises Fall 2022 Community Business Academy.

Donate at link in bio. 🌱

You never know who you’ll see when shopping locally! Loved running into this legend, Christine Osborne - founder of , today! She has had such a powerful influence on our work and on the paths of countless entrepreneurs in the community. She now jumps in to help at the store when needed and coaches students studying entrepreneurship at . This is why local matters.