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Landing a piece of business from Metropolitan Hospital Center was a coup for Rodney Mendez, founder and CEO of ThinkBigData, an East Harlem digital marketing firm.

It might not have happened at all were it not for Buy Local East Harlem, a two-year-old program run by Union Settlement and the East Harlem Community Alliance that encourages residents and companies to spend dollars close to home.

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