Welcome!
Here, you will find a variety of resources for you to meet all your social procurement needs.
Social Procurement Value-Finding Tool for Small to Medium Purchases
Learn how to position your purchase to get social value from the purchase you are already making. While this tool will not be exhaustive, reviewing these questions will help you determine which path you could take to get social value from your purchase.
More tools coming soon...
Anchor York U Course Offering
In this course, participants will learn about the University's impact beyond the walls of York through its innovative Anchor York U Framework. Participants will encounter social procurement and local hiring strategies as key ways that York seeks impact with our key partners and defines its corporate social responsibility and commitment to the community.
Key Learning Outcomes:
- Understand the concept of social procurement and how it aligns with the University's vision and values;
- Learn about York’s local hiring strategies and their benefits for the University and its partners;
- Explore how ways to apply the principles and practices of social procurement to your own work and projects.
Creating positive change
In 2019, York University became one of the first universities in Canada to pass a social procurement policy. Through this policy, vendors involved in building Markham Campus are being drawn from the local community and equity-deserving residents are being employed.
The premise is simple: as York University benefits, local communities should share in the success. Join us in creating positive change at https://www.yorku.ca/markham/
