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This part may be two-fold:

 External stakeholders: Whether they’re consumers, community leaders, business partners, or the small and diverse businesses themselves, external stakeholders can provide the motivation and push that organizations sometimes need in order to take action. As I discuss in Chapter 2, supplier diversity started in response to the social and economic inequality of the 1960s. Over the years, as it entered different phases, the shift was usually in response to some kind of external force. In fact, even the resurgence supplier diversity experienced in 2021 was a result of the racial and social unrest of 2020.External stakeholders are also resource partners in that they team up with an organization to deliver programs to small and diverse businesses, especially if the organization doesn’t have enough resources to fully devote to this function. Further, they’re prime partners (suppliers with a direct contract with the organization) that may provide subcontracting or other businesses partnering opportunities to small and diverse businesses.

 Community outreach:Community outreach involves actively engaging in the community to scout and recruit companies to do business with your organization. The supplier diversity industry has done a great job of creating opportunities to connect small and diverse businesses to decision makers. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, on any given day in any city, there was no shortage of events in which small and diverse businesses participated.