Business and Supplier Diversity at CDW
CDW’s deep experience, expertise and commitment to diversity excellence is critical to our ongoing success. We invest time building partnerships with our diverse suppliers,working side-by-side with them to serve our customers.
A successful business diversity program seeks to provide diverse suppliers equal access to purchasing opportunities, but it also promotes diverse supplier participation reflective of our communities and customers; optimizes the supply chain; creates revenue, jobs and wages; builds stronger communities; unleashes economic growth and raises our game while supporting corporations needs to meet diverse supplier spend.
About CDW’s Business Diversity Program | Kristin Malek, Director of Business Diversity at CDW
Meet Our Suppliers
"CDW gives us the opportunity to amplify our expertise and strong customer focus with best-in-class technology, as well as the best e-commerce and operational infrastructure in the market."
Hernan Cortes,
President and CEO, Betis Group
"In less than two years, our relationship with CDW expanded significantly when ICP became an official WBE supplier under CDW-G’s NYC Requirements Contract as well as participating in their MSA for services. Collectively, we have supported NYC government agencies through the most unprecedented and challenging times our industry has ever seen."
Michelle Fabozzi,
President & CEO, ICP
"CDW has helped us expand in several areas of contingent labor needs thereby allowing us to grow our business. We’re partners who create win-win solutions to the challenges that we all face. Each company supports the other’s initiatives, needs, and information and that enables us to support the goals of our respective companies and our customers."
Michael Gaines,
President, The CRS Group
"CDW has been crucial to our growth over the last few years ... Most recently, CDW has included us in their top 3 partners to cultivate the ever-growing cloud business. We are beyond grateful for the close partnership we have and can only hope to continue building for many years to come."
Loretta Sivret,
Owner & President, Liquid PC
How We're Doing:
CDW's Business Diversity Growth Story
In 2007, when we formalized our Supplier Diversity Program, CDW facilitated around $359 million of spending with small and minority-owned businesses. Since then, we have facilitated more than $20 billion of direct and indirect spending with small, minority-owned firms, including over $3.4 billion in 2021. We currently have partnerships with 1,340 diverse suppliers—a number that is growing all the time. For us, diversity is not a new trend. It is a long-term solution.
The economic impact of CDW’s Supplier Diversity Program is felt most keenly by our partners. The additional sales revenues it creates as well as the customized training and advocacy support, we offer are critical to their ability to succeed. Yet it also extends much further, creating a powerful multiplier effect. By enabling minority and small businesses to invest in their own growth and spend more with other firms in their supply chain, the program helps generate jobs, increase wages and boost local economies, especially in underrepresented and underserved communities.
We continue to build a best in class supplier diversity program and see this initiative as an essential component of national progress. Our program is focused on four key areas: educating stakeholders and business owners on the benefits of supplier diversity programs, identifying the best Canadian-based diverse IT talent to partner with, increasing our spend with disadvantaged or underserved Canadian businesses, and measuring the impact of our program on the economy.
We partner with local development councils including: WEConnect, WBECA, CAMSC and CCAB to identify Canadian- based initiatives around supplier diversity and support those initiatives.
1.7 Billion
Wages Supported
INCOMES
$4.5 Billion
Production Impact
PRODUCTION
1.3 Billion
Taxes Generated
TAXES
25,325
Jobs Supported
JOBS
Awards & Recognition
Alongside our membership of the Billion Dollar Roundtable, we actively support a variety of organizations and events that focus on identifying opportunities for small and diverse businesses to thrive and grow.
We’re also proud to have been recognized for diversity excellence in 2020 and 2021 by a number of leading organizations and publications dedicated to providing greater representation, employment and economic advancement for minority, women, veteran and LGBTQ+ communities.
Come Meet Our Team
We are committed personally engaging with our diverse suppliers and customers through maintaining a presence at the following national conferences.
National 8(a) Small
Business Conference
2021 WBENC Summit &
Salute Conference
NMSDC Leadership Week
WBENC National Conference
NMSDC Program Manager’s Seminar
NGLCC Business &
Leadership Conference
NMSDC Business Opportunity
Exchange Conference
NaVOBA Conference
CDW Business Diversity Program In The News
Diversity Professional,
Fall 2021
CDW Featured Page 36-37
Diversity Professional, Summer 2021
CDW Featured Page 32-33
WEUSA Magazine
Volume I 2019
CDW Featured Page 92-93
Diversity Professional, Summer 2019
CDW Featured Page 36-38
Become a Diverse Supplier
As a diverse business owner, you have goals for growing and developing your company, and becoming a diverse supplier to a Fortune 500 company. Let’s talk.