Social Purchasing Partnerships
Make an impact with your purchasing today. Our partnerships can help in any stage of your social procurement journey as you connect with social enterprises across Canada.
Businesses
We can work together to examine your operations and supply chain.
Identify opportunities to maximize social value through existing procurement decisions.
Non-Profits
Non-Profits are already purpose driven to create social value.
Practice social procurement or buy from social enterprises to create even greater social value.
Government & Institutions
Learn how to integrate your procurement objectives to meet your social goals and priorities, without having to adjust the budget.
Become a Social Purchasing Partner
Social procurement is a tool for building healthy communities while ensuring your organization gets best value for its money. Buy Social Canada is excited to recognize and work with your organization to support you in your social procurement journey and connect you with social enterprise suppliers across Canada.
It’s never been easier to buy social – Buy Social Canada can show you how.
There are several ways to become a Social Purchasing Partner:
- Design your Buy Social Journey
- Become an Engage Member
- Become a Buy Social Leader
You’re in good company
View our current directory of Social Purchasing Partners to see who else we’re working with.
Benefits
Join a growing social impact network
Connect with like-minded, mission-driven businesses that lead in social procurement practices and contribute to healthy community building.
Improve your business performance
Research shows that businesses who align their operational practices with community and employee values tend to financially outperform their competitors.
Analyze your impact & tell your story
Assess your impact and identify opportunities to improve with the support of our partner supply chain experts. Participate in our case studies and showcase your business’ social impact.
Be a leader in advancing equity, diversity and inclusion
Your business has a responsibility to the community you work and operate in. Buying from social enterprise is a simple way to give back, contribute to the local economy and help build sustainable and healthy communities.
Stand out from your competitors
Partnership provides a meaningful social value differentiator that helps your business stand out in diverse and competitive marketplaces.
Access exclusive learning and networking opportunities
Join exclusive quarterly Community Learning to Advance Social Procurement (CLASP) events to hear from guest speakers and network and share learnings with fellow social purchasers.
Enhance supplier diversity
Access a list of Certified Social Enterprises to add to your diverse supplier program. Diverse-owned businesses may play a key role in your social procurement program, and social enterprises can be a part of supplier diversity.
Save money and access tools and resources
Receive discounted consulting rates from our strategic partners to support you in developing a social procurement framework or policy. Access webinars and other key tools and resources for free.
Design your Buy Social Journey
Each organization is unique with a different starting point, set of objectives and procurement processes in which social procurement can be implemented. The following services combined provide a complete package through initial learning and engagement, review and analysis of baselines, design, and implementation of social procurement. These services are available individually priced, to allow you to design a tailored package. In addition to custom services, Social Purchasing Partners also get exclusive access to quarterly learning and networking opportunities for their staff.
Join us as a Social Purchasing Partner and design your own Buy Social Journey.
Design your Buy Social Journey
Engage Member Package
The Engage Member Package is a low-cost, high-value option for organizations of any size to get started with social procurement or to maintain connection to evolving best practices.
Become an Engage Member and you’ll get:
- A 1-hour introduction to social procurement webinar
- 1 spot in the Social Procurement Professional Certificate 8 hour course
- Access to exclusive quarterly Community Learning to Advance Social Procurement events
- Membership in the National Community of Practice
Cost: $3000 annually
- Access to the Vancouver or Toronto Social Procurement Roundtables
- Opportunity matching to Certified Social Enterprises
- Recognition as a Social Purchasing Partner
- 5 hours of consulting or coaching support
Buy Social Leaders
Buy Social Leaders catalyze the movement towards a social value marketplace by leading social procurement implementation across Canada.
Buy Social Leaders are committed to driving social procurement within their organization and across their sectors. That commitment could include:
- A public commitment for social procurement and social enterprise spend
- Sponsorship of a new open-source resource
- Other leading-edge activities
They work with Buy Social Canada to develop a custom innovation package that drives community impact.
If you would like to be recognized and supported as a Buy Social Leader, connect with Buy Social Canada to co-design your tailored membership package.
Contact us to learn more