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Member Spotlight: Straightaway Cocktails
Straightaway Cocktails has crafted award-winning batched cocktails in Portland, Oregon while also holding themselves accountable to standards of environmental and social impact.
Designing for Resilience: Inside Portland’s Passive House
What does it look like to design for resilience? We stepped inside Birdsmouth Design-Build’s Passive House to explore how thoughtful design, materials, and building practices can create healthier, more climate-resilient communities.
Member Spotlight: New Seasons Market
As the World's first B-Corp grocery store, New Seasons Market has stood with a commitment to encouraging local communities to participate in creating a more sustainable world through a series of programs and campaigns since 2013.
Champions Retreat 2026: What Oregon Leaders Brought Home
Oregon leaders report back what they learned from B Lab’s 2026 Champions Retreat, hosted in Milwaukee, WI. Watch the full conversation on what stood out and key takeaways from the conference.
Learning Together: Climate Action and the New B Corp Standards
More than 25 purpose-driven companies came together to tackle one of the biggest changes in the new B Corp standards: Climate Action. Here's what attendees learned, and what's next in our B Lab workshop series.
Conversations That Move Impact Forward
On Purpose Oregon joined the Building Forward Collaborative to discuss impact measurement, the evolving B Corp standards, and how purpose-driven businesses can better track what truly matters.
B Local PDX is now On Purpose Oregon
This rebrand reflects more than a new name. It signals an evolution in how we show up for Oregon’s business community and how we continue building a more inclusive, collaborative, and impact-driven economy.
B Local PDX Announces Wes Griffin as Executive Director
B Local PDX, a leading nonprofit dedicated to advancing the B Corp movement and using business as a force for good, is thrilled to announce the appointment of Wes Griffin as its first Executive Director.
Member Spotlight: Metropolitan Group
Since its inception, Metropolitan Group (MG) has had a community-oriented mission focusing on social impact issues affecting people at the local, state, national, and international levels.
Member Spotlight: Minna Yoo, CEO of Love Bottle
As soon as I learned about B Corps, I knew that was my community. Love Bottle was already doing all the things that B Corp was all about, so it made so much sense to become certified.
Member Spotlight: Anna Madill, CEO and Founder of Avenue
Anna Madill, CEO and founder of Avenue, sat down with us recently to share her thoughts on the B Corp community, impact reporting, and B Local PDX’s CEO cohort.
Member Spotlight: Tillamook
We asked Tillamook, certified B Corp since 2020, to share some thoughts about their experience getting certified, and how it’s affected their business. Responses attributable to Jocelyn Bridson, Director, Environment & Community Impact, Tillamook County Creamery Association.