What makes us tick

We are recommitting to downtown and the city we live in, trying to contribute to our little village that in return gives us energy and perspective on people we wouldn’t otherwise have.

Having recently taken on the full ownership of our company, I’ve been taking stock of our assets. When I assess the agency’s strengths, I’m proud to say that our company culture is near the top of the list.  This isn’t just window dressing in this business where original ideas and real, deep-level listening win the…

Across this work, we’ve noticed a recurring theme, stigma. Stigma is a scourge that further oppresses and strains people’s lives. It makes people feel isolated and disconnected. It compromises access to the support and systems we all need to live healthy and fulfilling lives.

With this blog post we are announcing and publishing our third Certified B-Corp and Oregon Benefit Company Annual Report. Coates Kokes is proud of its continued growth in B Corp activities, with the highlight being our renewed certification late last year. The bar keeps getting higher, and that’s as it should be.

As a white person I can never really know what it’s like to be Black in America. After a seemingly endless streak of wrongful deaths from state-sanctioned violence. After listening to all the rhetoric about the American dream only to find closed doors and rigged systems at every turn. And after navigating daily doses of micro-aggressions and the weight that comes with them.

With this blog post we are announcing and publishing our first Certified B-Corp and Oregon Benefit Company Annual Report.  You can read it here.