A meet & greet to connect corporate buyers with regional small business technical assistance providers.
Funding available to host a work experience opportunity at no cost to your company.
A workshop focused on strengthening organizational resilience by embedding inclusive practices into core systems.
A roundtable discussion with businesses on building a strong intentional purchasing future.
A training on how to improve your company’s onboarding.
My People’s Market 14 is here!
Engage with other leaders from medium & large employers on Supplier Diversity.
A powerful true story about the Equal Justice Initiative, the people we represent, and the importance of confronting injustice.
We’re back at it April 19, 2024! We Believe in Portland through volunteering.
Annual Reporting for 2023 is open! Portland Means Progress businesses are required to complete reporting each year.
We are looking for organizations across the Portland Metro to host paid, leadership-track internships for our local college talent of color through The Script Internship for summer 2024.
In this event with The Script and Portland Means Progress, hear directly from employers and talent who are collaborating to build inclusive workplaces
In partnership with TAO, we invite you to a 2 Part series on "Making Work Work." In Part 2, we will cover "Psychological Safety" and "Mentoring and Inclusion."
In partnership with TAO, we invite you to a 2 Part series on "Making Work Work." In Part 1, we will cover "Redefining Culture through Renewed Mission and Values" and "Effective Change Communication."
Are you interested in contributing to meaningful change in Oregon and SW Washington? We encourage you to join us for this info session to learn more about becoming a SINE Mentor!
Join us at a 4-part Teach In Series - hear directly from businesses and organizations advancing racial equity!
Join us at a 4-part Teach In Series - hear directly from businesses and organizations advancing racial equity!
Join us at a 4-part Teach In Series - hear directly from businesses and organizations advancing racial equity!
Join us at a 4-part Teach In Series - hear directly from businesses and organizations advancing racial equity!
Join us at a 4-part series on Hosting Meaningful Internships in partnership with Emerging Leaders!
Join us at a 4-part series on Hosting Meaningful Internships in partnership with Emerging Leaders!
A celebration of business, culture, and community. The marketplace is aimed to advance opportunities for business owners of color by connecting them to the travel industry and other professionals who can help expand and scale their businesses.
Evaluating the impact of equity & inclusion initiatives, highlighting Portland Means Progress Impact Report as a case study.
Join us at a 4-part series on Hosting Meaningful Internships in partnership with Emerging Leaders!
Join us at a 4-part series on Hosting Meaningful Internships in partnership with Emerging Leaders!
My People’s Market is a gathering of Portland’s diverse and vibrant entrepreneurs, makers, artists, culinary wizards, and beverage crafters.
A happy hour to connect small businesses owners, solopreneurs and makers with service providers that can support and elevate their business.
Portland Means Progress presents the Intentional Purchasing Toolkit with Jesse Hyatt back to lead the discussion.
Gain expert advice, best practices and peer insights on how to lead an equitable and effective return to the office for your staff.
This webinar, presented by Prosper Portland and TechTown, is open to all Portland-based businesses. The target audience is businesses (and those that support businesses) in our high growth industries selling products & services across the country (or world).
About this Event
When shifting purchasing decisions at your business to be more intentional, have you struggled with tracking? How do you gather the necessary data to understand your business’s procurement practices & spending? In this session with Jesse Hyatt, President & Founder of Hyatt & Associates and Executive Director of the Black American Chamber of Commerce, we will explore:
What does it mean to track data ethically?
Different ways to update your vendor profiles, including walking through an example vendor questionnaire.
Ways to measure intentional purchasing beyond dollars, including policies & procedures, local spend, pay structures, and engaging with vendors.
Example company dashboards for holding ourselves accountable to our intentional purchasing goals.
This session is one of a 4-part series hosted by Portland Means Progress that is free and open to the public.
About this Event
How do we measure the success of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion actions? And how do we hold ourselves accountable? Results in equity initiatives will look different than typical metrics. How do we get beyond the number of hours spent in training to better understand how our workplace culture fits into our journey to become antiracist organizations? In this session, facilitated by Serilda Summers-McGee of Workplace Change, you can expect to:
Hear about Results Based Accountability, and how to apply this framework to your DEI work
Learn about employee culture surveys, and gain a better understanding of how to implement these in a meaningful way
Learn how to baseline & measure culture change; see examples in the Portland Means Progress Culture Change Roadmap
Communicate Diversity, Equity & Inclusion actions, metrics & findings to employees
Explore example Culture Change dashboards & start thinking through your own business’s measurements & dashboard
This session is one of a 4-part series hosted by Portland Means Progress that is free and open to the public.
About this Event
As businesses host work experiences for young professionals of color, how do we measure if a work experience was meaningful? With Amani Austin, Assistant Director of the Emerging Leaders Internship program, we will explore how to get beyond the number of internships as our measurement of success to better understand the experience of interns at our companies. Through this session, participants can expect to gain an understanding of:
How to apply a strengths-based approach to measuring meaningful work experience
Guidance on types of questions to ask in survey work with interns
How to act on information you receive
Hear case testimonials and scenarios of work experience situations
See dashboards of example businesses measuring & reporting on work experience actions
Become familiar with annual reporting for Portland Means Progress businesses
This training will be facilitated by Amani Austin, Emerging Leaders.
This session is one of a 4-part series hosted by Portland Means Progress that is free and open to the public.
About this Event
Are you holding yourself accountable to your racial justice commitment? What does it mean to ask questions, receive feedback, and act on that feedback? What if the feedback is negative? How will you handle it? What will you do next? How do you stay accountable and make changes when there is already so much on your plate?
If any of this sounds like questions you or your organizations have had recently, please join us for this impactful session on how to turn your commitment to racial justice to measurable, sustainable leadership and action. In this session participants will learn how to:
Become more comfortable with being uncomfortable and feel ready to take important and effective action.
Understand the stages of the racial justice journey—the different needs and actions to be taken—and where you are on that path.
Feel ready to continue this work with a community of people who share your experiences.
Be prepared for decisive action in supporting anti-racism work without inadvertently causing harm.
This training will be facilitated by Lindsey T.H. Jackson, LTHJ Global.
This session is one of a 4-part series hosted by Portland Means Progress that is free and open to the public.
