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Together we have the power to transform Portland.
 

Take Action

Businesses commit to creating and deepening your social impact commitments through the following actions, using vetted service providers:

 
 

Take at least one of the following actions:

 
 
 

Emerging Leaders

Work Experience

Create work experiences for young professionals of color.

    • Create work experiences for underrepresented youth and young professionals of color

    • Pay for internships and provide structure for the intern

    • Complete Portland Means Progress annual reporting every January on work experience efforts at your company

    • Access to workshops with tangible takeaways, on how to offer meaningful work experiences, onboard interns, and build inclusive internship practices

    • Introductions to vetted partners who can provide connections to local candidates of color for open internship positions

    • Engagement with a community of like-minded organizations

 
 
 
 
 

Greet & Grow Event (Photo by Joshua Huff)

 

Intentional Purchasing

Support small businesses by purchasing goods and services offered by the 12,000 businesses in the Portland metro area that are owned by people of color.

    • Support small businesses by purchasing goods and services offered by the 12,000 businesses in the Portland metro area that are owned by people of color.

    • Complete Portland Means Progress annual reporting every January on intentional purchasing efforts at your company

    • Direct access to a network of 1,000+ local Black, Indigenous, people of color (BIPOC) -owned businesses

    • Added support to your team through a procurement liaison to assist with direct introductions to local BIPOC vendors based on your specific purchasing needs

    • Vendor fairs and events to build relationships with new vendors

    • Procurement and industry-specific events

    • Tools to document intentional purchasing impacts, including B-Corp and ESG company efforts

 
 
 
 
 
 

Culture Change Roadmap Event (Photo by Kim Nguyen)

Culture Change

Create culture change in your organization by providing Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) training and tools for your staff and leadership

    • Create culture change in your organization by providing Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) training and tools for your staff and leadership

    • Complete Portland Means Progress annual reporting every January on DEI efforts at your company

    • Provide your organization with DEI tools through our Culture Change Roadmap

    • Access to DEI knowledge and strategies through events and industry-specific cohorts

    • New tools to track and manage DEI commitments, with alignment from national movements (B-Corp and ESG)

    • Dashboarding features to observe and analyze DEI practices year-over-year

    • Connections to equity practitioners; connections to a searchable platform of vetted equity practitioners with defined ‘superpowers’ we know businesses need

 
 
 
 

Portland Means Progress businesses, along with their 30,000+ employees, are transforming our region to create a more equitable business community.

Companies range in size from sole proprietors to thousands of employees. Collectively, we’ve worked together to change policies, prioritize people of color in purchasing, launch new internships for brilliant students with limited social capital opportunities, and are creating new cultures to make workplaces more inclusive. 

 
 
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