The Old Model Isn't Working Well Enough.
California has no shortage of business organizations. Yet too many owners remain disconnected from the advocacy conducted on their behalf.
Plenty of organizations. Not enough connection.
Business owners join, pay, and participate — and still feel far from the rooms where decisions get made.
Advocacy can be invisible
Owners rarely see what is being done in their name, or whether anyone showed up at all.
Businesses react too late
By the time most owners hear about a policy, it is already underway and hard to influence.
Owners feel like spectators
Dues get paid, meetings happen — but the connection to the process never materializes.
CBA Is Building a Different Model
Direct instead of distant. Transparent instead of a black box. Participatory instead of passive. Here is the experience we are building for members.
Understand how policymaking actually works.
Interact with those involved, when available.
Share how policy affects your business.
Turn experience into ideas and advocacy.
Follow through, reported back to members.
We don't just want to respond to Sacramento. We want small business helping to set Sacramento's agenda.