About Supplier Diversity

The concept of America - China Business Women Alliance (ACBWA) came about from the First Annual Conference of America-China Women Business Leaders in 2005, organized by parent organization, America-China International Foundation (ACIF). ACBWA will be a membership based subdivision of ACIF. The goal of ACBWA is to promote friendly relationship and mutually beneficial business opportunities for women business leaders from two most important economic powers, America and China.

CAMSC operates as a private sector-led, non profit membership organization governed by a board of Directors; composed of major multinational corporations operating in Canada. The organization aims to boost economic development efforts and employment. The council is now accepting new corporate memberships from across Canada.

The European Supplier Diversity Business Forum was an initiative that promotes Supplier Diversity in Europe. Supplier Diversity is concerned with ensuring that under-represented businesses, including but not limited to race, disability and gender, have the same opportunities to compete for the supply of goods and services as other suppliers.

MSD China is the first national non-profit membership organization dedicated to enhance the development of China’s minority-owned business through connecting minority suppliers to corporations for procurement opportunities on mutually beneficial basis. Our work is to establish a platform for communications and business exchange between minority suppliers and procuring corporations, and to develop the minority suppliers into competitive and successful regional and global suppliers.

Welcome to Minority Supplier Development UK (MSDUK) is a private sector led, not-for-profit membership organisation created to provide a direct link between its corporate members and ethnic minority businesses to enable the building of mutually beneficial business relationships.

Providing a direct link between corporate America and minority-owned businesses is the primary objective of the National Minority Supplier Development Council, one of the country's leading business membership organizations. It was chartered in 1972 to provide increased procurement and business opportunities for minority businesses of all sizes.

Linking Corporations and Diverse-owned Small and Medium Enterprises in Europe Supplier Diversity Europe is a corporate-led supplier diversity programme that currently operates in the UK, France and Germany.

WEConnect International promotes the international certification standard for women owned businesses and incubates new national certification organizations. We help multinational corporations diversify their supplier base to reflect their market, increase shareholder value, and enhance competitive advantage. Certification of women owned businesses is key to increasing local and global procurement opportunities for women. When women start and grow businesses they create jobs, contribute to the economy and improve communities.

WEConnect Canada delivers the leading international qualification or certification standard for women-owned businesses. We bring together the growing corporate and public sector demand for diverse supply chains with women's business enterprises based in Canada. WEConnect Canada is an independent non-profit corporate membership organization guided by a corporate Board of Directors.

WEConnect is the leading UK supplier diversity initiative spearheading the connection of women-owned business and multinational corporations. It is the UK's leading advocate of women-owned businesses as suppliers to global and national corporations and government bodies.