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At Friday's Bowling Green Chamber of Commerce Meeting, members voted to approve a $500 pledge request to fund one of two internship positions connected with the project.
A second position has already been funded by the Bowling Green Economic Development Foundation.
"Obviously I think we're all aware that there's a concern among local business owners, that we've started this buy local campaign, that it's going to lose momentum" without the students, said Chamber Board President Bruce Stevens.
The project, dubbed "Buy BG," emerged from a course taught in the BGSU's Masters in Public Administration program.
The students developed a slogan, logo, and even a Facebook page for the effort after discovering that only 55 percent of the students they surveyed said they visited local retailers once or twice a week.