The Taos Business Alliance (TBA) is a public/private sector partnership whose mission is to develop and implement a sustainable economic development initiative for Taos, New Mexico. The TBA was created to address long term economic development of the Taos area. The TBA began as an initiative from the Mayor's office, gained the support of the business community and formally organized in late 1999 with confirmed commitments and contributions.

As part of the MIRA program the TBA wanted to establish an accurate "asset inventory" of economic development assets in the community. They also wanted to develop a website and publish the asset inventory information on their new website and through print media.

The TBA contrated with the Bureau of Business and Economic Research at the University of New Mexico to perform an in-depth demographic study of Taos County showing the in and out migration trends and profiles over the past twenty years, and the projections into the next twenty years.

The findings of the study revealed information on the median of Taos residents, the local income distribution and the inflow and outflow of Taos residents. The study also revealed that Taos has a large number of organizations and individuals who do training in a wide range of disciplines.

From this information, the TBA decided to form the Taos Training Alliance, which, initially, is a collaborative effort to market the training potential in Taos. It is the goal of the Training Alliance to establish Taos as the premier training center in the southwest. The Alliance created a virtual Taos Training Village and is making plans to turn it into a physical village soon. The Alliance recently attracted the attention of a professional training center that is considering locating in Taos. They would build a 25,000 sq. ft. village or campus style complex for training professional engineers and others for continuing education credits. This would be the catalyst for forming the physical Taos Training Village.

The TBA also created a web site which as attracted several businesses to Taos and serves as a source for dissemination of information on the study.