Advocacy takes many forms in professional life. Learning to advocate for yourself, for your company, and for your industry will pay dividends throughout your career. We provide knowledge, tips, and training to help you hone your best advocacy skills, and facilitate opportunities to make your voice heard.
Every lawmaker from local councilperson to US Senator knows a printer – these elected officials print signs and direct mail to campaign, after all! – but few have been exposed to the full diversity and depth of the commercial printing industry, not to mention the industry’s economic output, environmental sustainability efforts, and societal contributions. That’s...
An estimated 3 million kids are at risk of losing child care access as pandemic-era funding goes “poof” overnight on September 30th.
Advocating for women’s inclusion and advancement in the industry is a core mission of Women in Print Alliance – and education, professional certification, and skills-based training is fundamental to attaining that goal. That’s why Women in Print Alliance is eager to be a leading member of the newly launched Tomorrow’s Workforce Coalition. It’s also why we...
The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA), passed in December, became effective on June 27, 2023 and applies to all government employees and all private employers that have 15 or more employees. Employees can qualify whether their status is full-time, part-time, temporary, and/or seasonal. The law also extends to job applicants. At the end of 2022,...
More women – over 25 percent – are serving in Congress than ever before. How can you as a women leading a printing company initiate grassroots advocacy engagement with this group of women lawmakers on Capitol Hill (or at the state or local level, too) to benefit your company, your employees, your customers, and, at...
The opening of the 118th Congress (2023-24) on January 3rd, typically a day marked by bipartisan platitudes and endless “grip and grin” photo ops, almost instantly descended into bizarre controlled chaos as the US House of Representatives failed to organize itself by not electing a speaker on the first ballot for the first time in...
