Advocacy Partners

NAWBO Advocacy Partners provide NAWBO with more opportunity to speak to decision makers on behalf of our members and women business owners in general on issues that are most important to women entrepreneurs today. These issues include health care, procurement opportunities, access to capital, fair and equitable tax treatment for small businesses and more. For details on NAWBO’s public policy platform and legislative highlights—and to get involved to make sure your voice is heard—please visit our site’s Legislative Action Center.

The Council on Women and Girls

The White House Council on Women and Girls will ensure that agencies across the federal government, not just a few offices, take into account the particular needs and concerns of women and girls. The Council will begin its work by asking each agency to analyze their current status and ensure that they are focused internally and externally on women.

Coalition for Affordable Health Coverage

NAWBO is a member of the Coalition for Affordable Health Coverage. The Coalition supports and advocates for “market-oriented approaches and tax incentives or other subsidies to promote affordable health coverage for all, including the uninsured.” Tax parity for the treatment of health expenses for individuals and the self-employed is also a focus of the Coalition.

Hogan & Hartson is an international law firm founded in Washington, D.C., with more than 1,100 lawyers in 27 offices worldwide. NAWBO is currently partnering with the firm—and specifically with Hogan & Hartson’s Senior Government Affairs Advisor Dr. Christine Warnke—to provide incisive commentary on issues of importance to today’s women business owners.

Nearly 40 years ago, Hogan & Hartson was the first U.S. law firm to create a separate department to develop and foster pro bono work. The firm provided more than 100,000 hours of free legal assistance in 2008.

Hogan & Hartson has offices in Abu Dhabi, Baltimore, Beijing, Berlin, Boulder, Brussels, Caracas, Colorado Springs, Denver, Geneva, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Miami, Moscow, Munich, New York, Northern Virginia, Paris, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Shanghai, Silicon Valley, Tokyo, Warsaw and Washington, D.C. For more information about the firm, visit www.hhlaw.com.