:: ABOUT US ::

Our Mission

Our Milwaukee, is a business alliance that advocates for locally owned businesses that provide a genuine, quality experience – in celebration of our community’s unique character.

For every $1 you spend at a locally owned business, more than 68¢ remains in Milwaukee.

Locally owned businesses maintain Milwaukee’s unmistakable style. When you’re in Milwaukee, you know it!

Buy Local – Support Yourself
Several studies have shown that when you buy from an independent, locally owned business, rather than a nationally owned business, significantly more of your money is used to make purchases from other local businesses, service providers and farms – continuing to strengthen the economic base of the community.
Support Community Groups
Non-profit organizations receive an average of 250% more support from small business owners than they do from large businesses.

Our Milwaukee

President
Pam Mehnert
Outpost Natural Foods

Vice President
Todd Leech
Beans and Barley

Treasurer
Jim Schrimpf
Brewery Credit Union

Secretary
Beth Kyte
Laacke & Joys

Website
Daniel Eick
Northern Instrument

Our Milwaukee
205 W. Highland Avenue Suite 501
Milwaukee, WI 53203
info@ourmilwaukee.net

Keep our Community Unique
- Where we shop, where we eat and have fun – all of it makes our community home. Our one-of-a-kind businesses are an integral part of the distinctive character of this place. Our tourism businesses also benefits. “When people go on vacation they generally seek out destinations that offer them the sense of being someplace, not just anyplace.”
Reduce Environmental Impact
- Locally owned businesses can make more local purchases requiring less transportation and generally set up shop in town or city centers as opposed to developing on the fringe. This generally means contributing less to sprawl, congestion, habitat loss and pollution.
Create More Good Jobs
- Small local businesses are the largest employer
  nationally and in our community; providing the most
  jobs to residents.
Get Better Service
- Local businesses often hire people with better
  understanding of the products they are selling and
  take more time to get to know customers.
Invest in Community
- Local businesses are owned by people who live in the community, are less likely to leave, and are more invested in the community’s future.
Put Your Taxes to Good Use
- Local businesses in town centers require comparatively little infrastructure investment and make more efficient use of public services as compared to nationally owned stores entering the community.
Buy What You Want, Not What Someone Wants You to Buy
- A marketplace of tens of thousands of small businesses is the best way to ensure innovation and low prices over the long-term. A multitude of small businesses, each
  selecting products based not on a national sales plan but on their own interests and the needs of their local customers, guarantees a much broader range of product choices.
Encourage Local Prosperity
- A growing body of economic research shows that in
  an increasingly homogenized world, entrepreneurs
  and skilled workers are more likely to invest and settle
  in communities that preserve their one-of-a-kind
  businesses and distinctive character.