Buy Harvey is a campaign of the Harvey County Independent Business & Community Alliance. Our mission is to support locally owned, independent businesses in Harvey County, to maintain our unique community character, provide continuing opportunities for entrepreneurs, build community economic strength, and prevent the displacement of community-based businesses by national and global chains.

About Us

The Buy Harvey campaign was launched in November 2010 by a group of about ten business owners after hearing a message from Cinda Baxter and her 350 campagin. Merchants felt a very enthusiastic response from both businesses and residents, that initial working group decided to continue to meet and form the Buy Harvey group.

Our three focus areas are:

• Informing citizens of the values provided by community-based businesses and their importance to the local economy, culture and social fabric.
• Group branding, promotion and advertising to elevate the collective profile of our community-based businesses and bring to them some of the advantages chains enjoy.
• Creating strong relationships with local government and the media to inform local decision-making and give a voice to the locally owned independent business community.

Our activities include the Buy Harvey Local Campaign, facilitating regular networking and educational events with our members, promoting an annual Holiday campaign, and maintaining an online business directory.

To join Buy Harvey, a business must be locally owned and independent. Here’s how we define these terms.