Why are companies making an effort to track suppliers owned by LGBT people or people with disabilities?

Wells Fargo and Fargre Baker Daniels’ significant investments in community outreach help drive the region’s thriving job market and diversity.

Here’s how Toyota, Walmart, Ameren and Cox Communications have fueled economic growth by doing business with MBEs and WBEs.

Toyota’s Adrienne Trimble talked to a DiversityInc roundtable about the company’s supplier-diversity challenge: whether to add new minority-owned suppliers or grow procurement opportunities for the current ones during this economic downturn.

Despite shrinking budgets and more stringent regulations, corporate supplier-diversity programs are thriving. Here’s how several companies are making a significant economic impact through leadership commitment, more efficient practices and innovative ideas.

Companies such as PSEG, Wells Fargo, HCSC, Cargill and SUPERVALU are using supplier diversity to communicate company values, spur innovation and benefit their local communities.

Walmart’s Theresa Barrera discussed the company’s deliberate move to go after and advocate for diverse suppliers at a roundtable on supplier diversity at DiversityInc’s headquarters. Watch more here.

Diversity management in supplier diversity at Kaiser Permanente benefits from Dr. Sally Saba’s unique perspective of the world—she grew up in Egypt and successfully ran a small business in the United States.

Find out how a collaborative network of committed diversity-and-inclusion leaders is fueling this Northeast Ohio region’s turnaround and driving Cleveland’s economic development.

Compelled by a Freedom of Information Act request to release its supplier-diversity data, the Federal Reserve shows some disappointing numbers. See our interview with the man who forced the Fed to go public.

The Mid-South Minority Business Council helps small minority-owned and women-owned businesses become competitive suppliers.