The Social Purchasing Portal (SPP) utilizes existing business-to-business supply chain relationships to create social value, allowing companies to maintain the same quality, value and costs of their goods and services. The engagement of the purchasing partners, the involvement of local businesses and social enterprises as suppliers, and the relationships of community based services leverages the purchases into employment and economic development opportunities.

Social Purchasing Portal (SPP) offers businesses an easy means to use their procurement practices to include social value. In addition to acquiring value, price and quality when purchasing goods and services, by using the Social Purchasing Portal (SPP) list of suppliers they are buying from businesses that will contribute directly to social and economic development as a result of such purchase. Existing purchasing expenditures are leveraged into a direct and meaningful way to exercise corporate social responsibility. For the suppliers every order helps grow their business, creating employment needs, and opening up job opportunities for the hard to employ person.

Participating Purchasers target their existing purchasing of everyday goods and services, like office supplies, catering and couriers, to the Social Purchasing Portal (SPP) suppliers to meet their business needs for value, price and quality and they also leverage a social value.

Participating Suppliers of goods and services have access to new and expanding markets, and the opportunities to grow their businesses and increase employment opportunities in the community.

This is the simple way that the Social Purchasing Portal (SPP)-initiated business growth creates employment demand, generating opportunities for hard-to-employ persons looking for jobs.