Purposeful Purchasing : Resources and Information for Social Service Agencies
Thanks for your interest in Purposeful Purchasing!
As the initiative grows this portion of the web site will contain a full package of resources to help you to adopt and implement Purposeful Purchasing in your organization. For now, we hope you find the following documents to be helpful. Please feel free to contact Maggie Vilvang at maggiev@accessWORKS.ca for more information.
Background Paper on Purposeful Purchasing:
If you’re interested in learning more about Purposeful Purchasing, how it started, and where it is going please read this paper.
Purposeful Purchasing Overview PDF
Sample Policy:
Adopting a policy on Purposeful Purchasing at your organization is an important step in demonstrating your organization’s commitment to spending in ways that promote the economic inclusion of people with disabilities. The following sample policy will help you to explain to others what Purposeful Purchasing is and what a policy about it might look like. Please feel free to make this policy your own!
Sample Policy PDF
If you have Microsoft Word, you can download a Word version of the Sample Policy.
Sample Supplier Letter:
After you have identified who your top suppliers are, and how much you spend with them, the next step is to let them know about your decision to begin purchasing with purpose. The attached Supplier letter can be sent to your suppliers. This letter, reminds your suppliers of your spending power, and invites them to become engaged through completing a brief on-line survey. This survey asks suppliers to let you know where they are at with respect to the inclusion of people with disabilities.
If you have Microsoft Word, you can download a Word version of the Sample Supplier Letter.
Sample Supplier Survey:
This is a copy of a sample supplier survey.
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