Our Regional Community is stronger when it maintains a consistently expanding level of economic growth and stability, including a reliable tax stream to fund education, programs, services and infrastructure. In today’s rapidly changing global economic marketplace, the Richmond Region must collectively focus its economic efforts or face the consequences, SO, in an effort to maximize the economic growth and stability of the Richmond Region, and maintain a consistent tax stream, TWS has developed the Buy Richmond Initiative, designed to calculate, promote and affect the many economic and community building benefits that occur when Richmonders make their product and service purchases from vendors and businesses in the Region, whenever possible.