Advocacy
Amplify Our Voice Through Advocacy
This committee educates members on NAWBO’s public policy priorities, coordinates legislative visits on behalf of the Chapter, and fosters relationships with local and regional policymakers. The goal is to ensure our members’ voices are heard and represented on issues that impact women business owners.
Learn more about how NAWBO has been the voice of women business owners, making sure we are at the table with key decision makers on Capitol Hill and speaking out on the issues that are most important, plus empowering our chapter leaders and members to do the same in their states and communities across the U.S. To best represent the diversity within our membership, all the business advocacy issues we engage in are bipartisan in nature. Learn More Here
The Latest in Chapter Advocacy
NAWBO Buffalo Niagara and NYC Chapters Join Forces for Historic Capitol Visit
For the first time ever, the NAWBO Buffalo Niagara and New York City chapters united for a joint visit to the New York State Capitol in Albany—bringing their collective voices directly to lawmakers in support of women business owners. This collaboration, held on March 26, was the brainchild of Sherrie Barr Mack, past president of the Buffalo Niagara chapter and immediate past chair of NAWBO’s Presidents' Assembly Steering Committee. “I joined NAWBO in 2017 and kept saying, ‘Let’s go to Albany,’” she says. “It had been on our NAWBO bucket list for years. With everything going on now and the voice of women business owners more important than ever, we [...]