The 3/50 Project Makes National News!

After my last post, here's some great news to report: The 3/50 Project has gotten national coverage from no less than The Wall Street Journal! See the article at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124631541083270621.html

If you're not familiar with The 3/50 Project, it's a grassroots organization founded by retail speaker/motivator Cinda Baxter, of Minneapolis, MN. Its premise is pick three brick and mortar businesses you'd hate to see go out of business and spend an affordable $50.00 a month at them.

Webster's Fine Stationers has been supporting Cinda and The 3/50 Project since its inception. We continue to hand out fliers about it and have them affixed to our doors. We want to congratulate Cinda and The 3/50 Project for this coup, and we will stay on course educating people about how important it is to shop locally. It would be wonderful if newpapers in Southern California would write about this, too....we need all the exposure we can get!

I highly recommend your reading The Wall Street Journal article. In it, it shows how the Project is helping retailers all across the country weather this recession. It actually helps you, too, as it helps to strengthen your local economy when you support local businesses. The more support a local retail store has, the more resources they're able to draw from to offer better merchandise and prices. They can keep the local people who work there employed and productive and if enough support is given, perhaps even give them a raise (a miracle in this economy!).

What this article does is give us hope, so thank you, Cinda, and thank you to all our supporters! We love you and want to assure you that we will fight hard to be here for you. We also want to take this opportunity to assure you that Webster's Fine Stationers will scour the markets to bring you the finest, most unique, ecologically responsible and prefferably locally made merchandise we can find at reasonable prices. A tall order, I know, but we're committed to this ideal. We've just gotten in new decorative paper (for invitations, craft projects, announcements, etc.) from The Green Paper Company. All the paper is recycled, but they contain from 30% to 100% post-consumer waste, depending on the design, and that's fabulous! Plus, the paper is made right here in the United States.

Again, congratulations to The 3/50 Project! Now it's on to the Today Show!