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May 26, 2021
Join Next City and Living Cities for the second installment of our three-part live webinar event on public procurement, race, and the pandemic. Businesses owned by people of color are the hardest hit by the pandemic and its economic fallout. Commitment to inclusive procurement is an obvious way to ensure that the eventual recovery from COVID-19 includes or starts in the hardest-hit communities.
Even now with looming budget deficits, procurement is a tool to mitigate disproportionate losses for workers and the neighborhoods they support. What are some of the biggest lessons learned from decades of work on MWBE procurement programs? What are some of the emerging practices that can make public procurement work better specifically from the perspective of small businesses that have never before had the opportunity to do business with their local government? This webinar series will bring together perspectives from leaders responding to these challenges, using
In cities and states that don’t have legal grounds for race-conscious procurement policies, how can race-neutral policies work to expand city government’s contracting with businesses owned by people of color?
Culture and Process: Doing Business Where Government Has Never Done Business Before
April 7, 2021
Watch the first of a 3-part webinar series presented by Next City and Living Cities on public procurement, race, and the pandemic. The data have shown what many already knew to be true, that businesses owned by people of color are the hardest hit by the pandemic and its economic fallout.
Despite looming local budget deficits, the 2021 American Rescue Plan has earmarked more than $45 billion in aid for cities. So local governments can still leverage the power of their own public spending. Mindful procurement programs can mitigate disproportionate losses for workers and for the neighborhoods they support. And a commitment to inclusive procurement is an obvious way to ensure that the eventual recovery includes or even starts in the hardest-hit communities.
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March 31, 2021
President Joe Biden entered office in January 2021 facing multiple converging crises and the urgent need to mitigate the previous administration’s most egregious failures: a pandemic entering its second year, exacerbated by a botched vaccine rollout and anti-mask disinformation; businesses crippled by indoor-gathering restrictions and depressed consumer spending; millions of Americans out of work and facing foreclosure, eviction or homelessness; extreme weather emergencies linked to climate change … the list goes on.
Halfway through his first 100-day sprint, Biden and his team have swiftly accelerated vaccine distribution and overseen passage of the American Rescue Plan, a recovery effort that, even in its whittled-down form, could lay the groundwork for combating income inequality through direct cash payments to families. But what further actions should the administration prioritize moving forward? And what do those actions look like for cities?