Last week, the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce welcomed 220 business and civic leaders to its 2023 Regional Leadership Conference at Tulalip Resort hosted by Presenting Sponsor Alaska Airlines. Attendees collaborated on plans for the future to solve building...
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Member Feature: Seattle City Flag
Today's featured member, Jackson Ridl, director of Seattle City Flag, said Seattle City Flag is a 501(c)(3) that works to bring inclusive public art to Seattle through civic design. The organization has a vision where everyone can feel dignity and be seen by our civic...
Member Feature: Mikono Coffee
Today's featured member, Wanjala Bifwoli, Co-Founder of Mikono Coffee, said that Mikono Coffee is a green coffee import company, with a mission to help grow direct-trade relationships between green coffee buyers in the Northwest and smallholder coffee farmers in...

Honoring Asian Pacific American Heritage Month in 2021
Every May, we celebrate the rich history of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) with Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. In and around Seattle, and online, there are many...

Red flag: King County at risk of moving back to Phase 2
After two weeks of high but stable COVID-19 case counts, numbers are increasing again all within our unvaccinated population. King County is at risk for a worsening outbreak in the...

Get the content you need on Seattle Metro Chamber’s YouTube channel!
Missed a recent Chamber event Looking to revisit content from an event you attended. See our new collection of Seattle Metro Chamber event recordings on our YouTube channel! On our...

Share your input on priorities for Sound Transits ST3
The economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have led to a shortfall in transportation revenues and increased construction costs and property evaluations across our state. These...

Where we go next is up to us
As of April 15, all adults 16 and older in Washington state are eligible for the vaccine. This is a complex moment punctuated by the dual realities of earned optimism (an...

Nomination Process For New Chamber Board Members Now Open
Trustees advise, govern, promote and oversee policy and the overall direction of the Chamber in support of the mission to help members thrive in an equitable and inclusive regional...
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What Bills Survived Cutoff? | Legislative Report
We are now in the final stretch of the 2023, 105-day legislative session. March 29 was the Opposite House Policy Committee Cutoff where all bills that passed their chambers of origin...

Public Safety, Housing + Education in Proposed Senate Budgets | Legislative Report
We have only four more weeks left in the 105-day legislative session. Last week, hearings and executive sessions on policy bills continued in advance of the March 29 opposite-house...

Small Business Disaster Relief Grants
The Washington State Department of Commerce has $9.7 million available for grants to small businesses with annual gross receipts of $5 million or less that have sustained a reduction...

Bipartisan Support Highlights Middle Housing Legislation | Legislative Report
Last week legislators returned to their respective committees to hear bills from the opposite chamber. Bills must now move forward in the opposite chamber, progressing through policy...

Member Feature: Northwest Film Forum
Today's featured member, Derek Edamura, executive director of Northwest Film Forum, said the nonprofit is a film and arts center located in the heart of the Capitol Hill neighborhood...

Nurse Staffing Moves Ahead After Negotiation of Hospitals, Labor | Legislative Report
Last week the legislature cleared a major hurdle, the House of Origin cutoff. March 8 was the deadline for bills to move out of the chamber (House or Senate) in which they were...
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