Join B Local PDX, Oregon Business for Climate and Clean and Prosperous Washington for the 2nd in a 4-part series of workshops on policy advocacy.

Session 2 will be a recap of our 101 session from the BLD conference in June. If you missed that one, that's okay! We'll discuss which policy areas participating businesses are interested in and preview the policies likely to show up in the 2025 legislative session.

Overview

Policy Advocacy 101 is designed to satisfy the Collective Action requirement in B Lab's upcoming revised standards. The series will:

• Provide context on the importance of policy/advocacy engagement (the WHY) by B Corps and purpose driven businesses on a range of issues, as well as the opposition we face and recent successes through collective action.

• Cover the process + typical engagement points (the WHAT) for businesses to weigh in to advance progress on key issues – in both the legislative and regulatory (agencies, commissions) settings, focused on the state level.

• Show examples of the approaches and tools useful in these venues (the HOW). Examples will focus on recent work supporting climate-related policies in Oregon (clean electric grid, building energy efficiency, clean fuels, reducing natural gas emissions, clean cars and trucks, renewable energy, etc.). This education will cover tools including direct engagement (meetings, testimony), sign-on letters, op-eds, and other approaches.

• Sign up interested businesses (the WHO and WHEN) for additional sessions and a closing event that sets them up to engage in Oregon and Washington’s 2025 legislative sessions.