Advocacy

Advocacy Agenda. Drives Business.

Our Advocacy team proactively monitors and evaluates key initiatives, policies, and measures at the local, state, and federal levels that impact business across our region.

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Why it Matters

Advocacy

Leading with a collective voice means uniting members around shared goals. Our public policy work advances a pro-business economic development agenda and is critical for fostering a vibrant quality of place, attracting and retaining top talent, and impacting our region’s competitiveness. Our Advocacy team plays a vital role in policy development, policy execution, strategic growth initiatives, political activities, and mobilizing member businesses from across the region.

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Policy Priorities

The Metro Chamber understands that businesses prosper when we unite around shared priorities.

Regional Impact

Through the Metro Chamber’s Advocacy department, the region’s business community aligns around shared policy principles and priorities. By leading with a collective voice, members work together to advance and strengthen the region’s business environment, unlock opportunities, deliver needed solutions, and fuel economic growth.

Every year, the Metro Chamber identifies key issues that affect our regional economy and champions these priorities at the local, state, and federal levels on behalf of our members. This unified approach ensures that business interests remain at the heart of policy decisions, leading to meaningful outcomes that benefit our region.

How Policy Priorities are Developed

Declaration of Policy Principles

The Sacramento Metro Chamber leads with a collective voice to bring members together in support of policies and programs that advance regional prosperity, protect business interests, strengthen public-private collaboration, and enhance the region’s competitiveness. These priorities help create a stronger, more prosperous Capital Region. These principles are carried forward through the Metro Chamber’s Policy Committees, where members and local experts collaborate to shape recommendations and advance shared regional priorities.

Business Climate

Civic Amenities
Economic Development
Food & Agriculture
Public Safety
Technology & Media

Community Prosperity

Community Resources
Housing
Healthcare
Land Use

Education & Employment

Education
Employment & Labor
Workforce Development

Environment

Energy & Innovation
Natural Resources
Wildfires

Infrastructure

Flood Protection
Transportation
Water Resources

Declaration of Principles Downloadable PDF

Policy Committees

The Metro Chamber’s committees are comprised of engaged members who bring invaluable industry-specific expertise to collectively advance regional priorities.

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The Role of Policy Committees

How Committees Drive Policy

Through direct collaboration with key decision-makers at the local, state, and federal levels, the committees amplify business priorities and ensure that the issues that matter most to our region’ business community remain central in policy discussions. The committees operate under the Chamber’s Public Policy Council and are guided by a Declaration of Principles, which reflects the Chamber’s commitment to:

Advancing regional prosperity
Protecting business interest
Facilitating public-private collaboration
Enhancing regional competitiveness

Collective Impact

Through the Metro Chamber’s Public Policy Committees, Metro PAC, and signature programs like Capitol-to-Capitol and Study Mission, we forge strong partnerships between business leaders and policymakers and keep business priorities central in the decisions that shape our region’s future. Together, this engagement ensures alignment between business interests and public policy, fostering meaningful progress and creating opportunities for businesses to grow, innovate, and thrive. Through these efforts, the Metro Chamber serves as a united voice—advancing solutions that strengthen the Capital Region’s economy and competitiveness.

Policy Committees

Each Policy Committee is led by a local expert with deep knowledge of the issues at hand, driving thoughtful policy recommendations aligned with business and regional goals. The Chamber’s committees include:

Business Climate: Civic Amenities, Economic Development, Food & Agriculture, Public Safety, Technology & Media
Community Prosperity: Community Resources, Health Care, Housing, Land Use
Education & Employment: Education, Labor & Employment, Workforce Development
Environment: Energy & Innovation, Natural Resources, Wildfires
Infrastructure: Flood Protection, Transportation, Water Resources

Capitol-to-Capitol

Complementing the work of our Policy Committees, the Metro Chamber’s annual Capitol-to-Capitol (Cap-to-Cap) program brings hundreds of business and community leaders to Washington, D.C. each spring to advocate for critical federal support, funding, and resources that benefit the Capital Region.

For more than 50 years, Cap-to-Cap has been the largest chamber-led delegation in the nation to lobby Congress regionally, bringing together more than 400 business leaders, policy experts, and elected officials. Together, our region’s stakeholders advocate for policies that promote economic vitality, business growth, and quality of life across our six-county region.

Cap-to-Cap is driven by an extensive committee structure that empowers regional experts to identify, prioritize, and champion federal domestic policy and resources necessary to create economic and civic prosperity. By bringing business, labor, community, and government leaders together to advocate in Washington for shared priorities, Cap-to-Cap provides a unique competitive advantage—strengthening relationships with federal representatives and ensuring our region’s priorities remain top-of-mind.

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Policy & Economic Development Manager

Caleigh Olgeirson

Public Policy Coordinator

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