by y.ryu | Nov 29, 2023 | Posts
As part of Northeastern’s recent Global Entrepreneurship Week, the Lab co-sponsored a webinar titled Entrepreneurial Diversity in the Construction Sector. A panel of industry experts — Margarita Polanco (Regional Supplier Diversity Manager, DPR Construction),...
by y.ryu | Oct 31, 2023 | Posts
This year’s National Association of Educational Procurement (NAEP) New England Conference took place in Newport, RI, from October 22 – 25, 2023. The conference brought together not only higher education procurement professionals in the New England region through 17...
by y.ryu | Sep 3, 2023 | News
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, which is dedicated to unlocking economic opportunity for all, awarded the Northeastern Lab for Inclusive Entrepreneurship a major three-year grant in the fall of 2022 to continue its work to understand and promote supplier...
by y.ryu | Aug 2, 2023 | Posts
Supplier diversity has emerged as one of the important initiatives in both public- and private-sector procurement. It seeks to promote equitable procurement by diversifying and including suppliers owned by underserved people or located in distressed communities. As a...
by y.ryu | Jul 12, 2023 | Posts
The theme of the 2023 Symposium on Supplier Diversity in Higher Education was “Translating Words into Action.” After Northeastern Lab for Inclusive Entrepreneurship’s executive director Francesca Grippa reviewed the preliminary results of a survey of...