2024 VBSR Legislative Breakfast
Are you ready for the start of the 2025 Vermont legislative session?
You will be after attending the 2024 VBSR Legislative Breakfast!
Join VBSR members, policymakers, advocates, and state officials as we explore and celebrate the opportunities ahead to work together toward a just, thriving, and transformative economy in the upcoming legislative session. Guests will enjoy free and delicious coffee donated by Kestrel Coffee Roasters as well as free finger foods. We will also enjoy bites donated by Sweet Mountain Chocolate and Vermont Farmstead Cheese Company.
Our day begins with a networking breakfast at 8:00 AM followed by guest speakers and presentations from policy leaders – including Senator Kesha Ram Hinsdale and Secretary Sarah Copland Hanzas – from 8:45-9:30 in The Main Street Landing Film House, The Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center’s world class cinema hall. We look forward to:
- Reviewing VBSR’s policy accomplishments in 2024
- Presenting the 2024 VBSR Legislator of the Year Award to Senator Kesha Ram Hinsdale
- Remarks from Secretary of State Copeland Hanzas on new and improved services her office will be offering Vermont businesses in 2025, as well as brief remarks following the election. Time for Q&A will be available with the audience.
- Announcing VBSR’s 2025 Advocacy Agenda
VBSR has a long history of being a powerful voice in the Vermont State House for People, Planet, and Prosperity. Our Legislative Breakfast is a unique opportunity to gather member input on the most pressing challenges and opportunities affecting your business and prepare for the session ahead. Bring your questions and ideas!
2024 VBSR Legislator of the Year Awardee:
Senator Kesha Ram Hinsdale
When not in the legislature, Kesha has taught Structural Inequality and Environmental Justice at Vermont Law & Graduate School. She has also served as co-chair of the Vermont Attorney General’s Immigration Task Force and as a member of the boards of Emerge Vermont, the Main Street Alliance of Vermont, Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, the Regenerative Food Network, and the Vermont Natural Resources Council.
Kesha lives with her husband, Jacob Hinsdale, and their two children, Mira and Wesley, in Shelburne, Vermont.
Thank You to Our Sponsors!
Host Sponsor
Main Street Landing believes that everyone deserves to live, work, and play in an environment that is healthy, accessible, and affordable. Our office and retail suites, apartments, and daily rental spaces are designed and managed by our in-house professional staff with the health of our planet and people in mind. Our Performing Arts Center provides a local and cultural experience. Whether you just want to watch the most gorgeous sunset in New England, visit one of our art galleries, dine at Skinny Pancake, rent a bike at Local Motion, shop at Mirror Mirror and Green Envy, or catch a movie or play - your visit to Main Street Landing will be a most memorable one.
Lead Sponsors
Paul Frank + Collins’ lawyers practice in more than eleven diverse areas of the law. While rooted in Vermont, we maintain a regional, national, and international reach. Our experienced and award-winning attorneys bring a depth of knowledge and committed focus to each challenge and offer the unique combination of worldly insight + local know-how to every client.
Seventh Generation: For more than 25 years we’ve been formulating plant-based products that are safe and that work. Really well. Based in Vermont, we’re proud to be a B Corporation. B Corps are certified to be better for workers, better for communities and better for the environment. Join us in nurturing the health of the next seven generations.
We believe our products are healthy solutions for the air, surfaces, fabrics, pets and people within your home–and for the community and environment outside of it. As a pioneer in corporate responsibility, we want our products to make a difference—from their development through to their production, purchase, use, and disposal. We are always evaluating how to reduce their environmental impact, increase performance and safety, and create a more sustainable supply chain. We believe it is our responsibility to set a course for a more mindful way of doing business, where companies act as partners with other stakeholders to create a brighter future for the whole planet.
Our goal is to build a community and network that promotes, supports, and affirms People of Color in a way that helps them succeed personally and professionally. Our network is built from within and focuses on young people of color, professionals of color, businesses and entrepreneurs of color, because prosperity starts with opportunities to climb the economic ladder, and a prosperous BIPOC community is a good thing for ALL of Vermont!
Supporting Sponsors
Powering Vermont homes and businesses with energy that’s 90% carbon free and 60% renewable, Green Mountain Power is focused on providing clean, reliable, cost-effective power, while also offering the latest in innovations like battery storage to help customers cut carbon and costs. GMP is committed to having a 100% renewable energy supply by 2030, and using energy as a force for good. In 2014, GMP was the first utility in the world to become a B Corp and continues its commitment to the community, employees, and the planet by helping to grow local renewable generation, offering convenient programs that help cut costs for all customers, and partnering with communities to make the grid more resilient in the face of more severe storms due to climate change.
Founded in 1993 by Tyler Scott, we plan, design and manage building projects for an impressive range of commercial clients, with a focus on healthcare, housing and workplace.
The process begins with a question: What do you want from your space? From here, ideas are generated. No idea is too big, small or sacred. Creating the right space requires meticulous planning, imaginative thinking, open communication and relentless management. Our work culminates in spaces that elegantly represent a point-of-view, meets or surpasses technical requisites, and is something that everyone involved with is proud to enjoy
About The University of Vermont Health Network: The University of Vermont Health Network is an integrated system serving the residents of Vermont and northern New York with a shared mission: working together, we improve people’s lives. Our 4,000 health care professionals are driven to provide high-quality, cost-efficient care as close to home as possible. Strengthened by our academic connection to the University of Vermont, each of our partners remains committed to its local community by providing compassionate, personal care shaped by the latest medical advances and delivered by highly skilled experts.
Beverage Sponsor
Kestrel Coffee Roasters is a specialty coffee roaster located in South Burlington and has three cafe locations (two in downtown Burlington and one at their roaster). They source and roast specialty coffees from all over the world, focusing on excellent coffees that are ethically sourced single origin coffees from small farms.
Space is limited for this event, which has historically sold out. Register today!
If you’re interested in sponsoring this event, please contact VBSR’s Membership & Development Manager, Jeremy Gerber at jeremyg@vbsr.org.