Local Businesses

Building a Better Community

Home is where you live so what better way to support your hometown than supporting your local businesses.   Local businesses are your neighbors and bring diversity, interest, and a unique shopping experience to your community.

Omaha is a friendly place to live, work and shop, a place where the neighbors and local merchants knew each other by name. Folks don’t have to travel far to find the things they need, and we’d like to keep it that way.

Time and progress have brought freeway access to cookie-cutter chain stores, where we often become anonymous faces in the crowd. One thing still remains true, it’s still a friendly place to live, work and shop. Businesses need to encourage and remind the public of the many reasons buying local helps to keep our lifestyle healthy and vibrant here in Omaha.

The Omaha Local Independent Business Alliance (OLIBA)

• We promote the success of local businesses through education, networking, shared resources and group branding.
• We encourage a “hometown” quality of life by promoting community values of uniqueness and diversity, caring and sharing.
• We educate the public to understand that supporting local, independent businesses helps maintain a vibrant local economy.
• We advocate for local, independent businesses to government and the media.

Join now and become part of the businesses who make a difference!