For chambers, BIDs, and Main Streets
Turn one shop-local campaign into a reusable local economic network.
Stabletown helps you coordinate merchants, sponsors, participants, program rules, and measurement around a Local Dollars launch — then reuse that operating layer for the next campaign instead of starting over.
What remains after launch
The campaign ends. The network should not.
A strong Local Dollars launch is valuable in the moment, but the larger asset is the operating network underneath it. Stabletown is designed so your merchant relationships, participant reach, sponsor structure, rules, and evidence can compound into additional local-commerce programs.
A reusable merchant network
Recruit and configure eligible businesses once, then reuse that acceptance network across seasonal campaigns, visitor promotions, employer programs, targeted incentives, and other local-commerce applications.
A repeatable sponsor channel
Give banks, utilities, hospitals, foundations, employers, and other anchors a structured way to fund specific local economic behaviors instead of inventing a sponsorship package from scratch each time.
A participant relationship
Build an identifiable resident, worker, student, or visitor cohort that can participate in future programs under new rules without requiring the community to rebuild the entire operating model.
Longitudinal evidence
Measure participation, merchant reach, redemption, and program outcomes over time so funders and operators can improve the next intervention rather than treating every campaign as a one-off event.
Already run a community gift card? Even better.
You have already proven your organization can recruit merchants and operate a local program. Stabletown can sit above compatible rails you already use: targeted incentives, sponsor economics, custom earning and spending rules, participant segmentation, and measurement your funders can act on. Stabletown focuses on the program and network layer around the acceptance infrastructure rather than requiring that infrastructure to define the product.
Category evidence
Sponsor-funded incentives have produced meaningful participation in independent programs
These examples establish that communities and sponsors will fund incentives around local merchant networks. They are useful category evidence, not Stabletown traction and not a forecast of what a Stabletown deployment will achieve.
Program-owner report
Downtown Tucson Partnership
DTP reports $308,000 in gift-card sales over two months across nine rounds. Its standard round offered a $10 sponsor-funded bonus on a $25 gift-card purchase, with 1,000 cards available and a $10,000 sponsor per round.
Source: Downtown Tucson Partnership →Program-owner report
Nashville Downtown Partnership
NDP reported $110,000 in sponsorships to fund giveaways and bonus dollars, while working to maximize an anonymous $20,000 matching challenge grant. Those figures describe program funding, not total card sales.
Source: Nashville Downtown Partnership →Vendor-reported customer evidence
Benicia, California
Community-card provider Yiftee reports that Benicia's $17,500 economic-development investment generated more than $54,000 in local gift-card sales in under two weeks, including a testimonial attributed to the city's economic development manager.
Source: Yiftee →None of the organizations above is presented as a Stabletown customer, pilot, or partner. Tucson and Nashville figures come from the program operators' own published descriptions; the Benicia result is reported by the community-card vendor and should be read in that context. Program mechanics, timing, merchant mix, promotion, and outcomes differ by place.
The deployment-design stage
The Local Dollars Launch Workshop — $1,500
Bring the likely program owner, a decision-maker, and sponsor or merchant voices into one working session. Stabletown turns the decisions into a launch-node blueprint: geography, sponsor and funding logic, participant cohort, merchant network, earning and spending rules, measurement, recruitment, and a go/no-go assessment. The full fee is credited toward a qualifying node launch begun within 90 days.
Next step
Turn the concept into a launch-ready Local Dollars node.
If the program shape is already clear, the Launch Workshop is the deployment-design step. If it is not, use the free Builder first and bring the resulting brief into the Workshop.
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