The New York State Association of Counties (NYSAC) represents New York counties before Federal, State and Local officials on matters of county governments. In response to COVID-19, NYSAC is pioneering an initiative that will help Counties leverage their existing recurring resources, (annual procurement spending) to support and financially engage their small, local and diverse businesses (MWBEs) supporting and helping sustain the communities they serve. By focusing economic opportunity and shifting the resulting economic benefit to the marginalized businesses and their host communities, this NYSAC-led initiative will enable Counties to proactively jumpstart small local and diverse businesses and facilitate a strong post COVID-19 recovery.
NYSAC has partnered with VeraCloud Technologies to bring this capability to member Counties. VeraCloud enables Counties to extend the reach and benefit of their procurement opportunities and focus procurement spending on the small local and diverse MWBE businesses within their jurisdictions. This shift of economic opportunity and benefit inspires, activates, and sustains MWBE's and small local business with annual County opportunity/spending, establishing many "first time” public contracts with their small local and diverse businesses. This initiative supports County business, enables new hiring within small local and MWBE businesses, supports diverse and local supply chains, and returns tax dollars to the communities from which they are collected helping revitalize neighborhoods, support families and create the much needed jobs critical to support recoveries within communities most impacted by COVID-19.
The procurement dollars focused through the NYSAC/VeraCloud initiative ultimately have a compounding effect helping preserve and rejuvenate small local diverse businesses, the communities in which they are located, and the diverse and local people they employ and sustain. In this COVID-19 recovery environment this is a high-impact grass roots initiative to help Counties focus their spending into small local diverse businesses, driving sustainable economic benefit and a much needed social impact to the communities and constituents most negatively affected by this pandemic.
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