Building Disability into a Corporate Supplier Diversity Program

Disability:IN Chicagoland continues its virtual program series on Thursday, August 5th in partnership with Disability:IN Greater Kansas City and Disability:IN Wisconsin, for a discussion on Building Disability into your Company's Supplier Diversity Program. A growing number of corporations are integrating disability supplier diversity into their overall diversity, equity and inclusion strategies. A disability-owned business enterprise is a for profit business that is at least 51% owned, managed and controlled by a person with a disability. Disability Owned Business Enterprises (DOBEs) generate over $536M in revenue annually, with a total U.S. economic impact of over $1B. In fact, according to the 2020 Disability Equality Index (DEI):

• 72% of companies spend with disability owned businesses
• 37% of companies include disability in their RFP language
• 41% of companies have a Supplier Diversity Council or Committee

Join Philip DeVliegher and Cami Turcotte who lead Disability:IN's Disability Supplier Diversity program, for a conversation with corporate supplier diversity professionals from CDW, Comcast and Walgreens about how their organizations are successfully working with DOBEs to integrate disability into their larger supplier diversity programs.