Social Purchasing – Buying Locally, Helping Locally
Published on September 7, 2004

An innovative and newly-created Internet gateway is allowing businesses in Vancouver to make purchases on the basis of price, value, quality and a new dimension – social value. Blending corporate social responsibility with community economic development, Vancouver’s Social Purchasing Portal matches business suppliers with local purchasers, creating economic and employment activity in a disadvantaged part of the city. Plans to expand the portal into a pan-Canadian network are well under way.
ISBN – 1-55382-114-9