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As a department or even a strategic initiative, diversity programs are still relatively green when compared to other functions within an organization. Despite diversity’s auspicious start during the 1960s, for many years it languished and wasn’t always embraced, welcomed, or even understood. But during the 1970s and 1980s, it became clear that the focus on diversity wasn’t going away. Organizations had to quickly get intentional about their commitment, develop strategies that worked, and create programs that could have a lasting impact on their communities.

Understanding the key differences in supplier diversity and DEI programs helps you balance and use them collaboratively and complementarily to avoid hyperfocusing on one area and neglecting the other. The following sections break down a few of these major differences.