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The Market Makers PodcastJason Trimiew - Diversifying Supply Chains to Drive Value for Firms and SocietyThe Market Makers is a production of Lenore Champagne Beirne and Troy Duffie and part of the ImpactAlpha Podcast Network: smart conversations by and for impact investing professionals.Today's episode features Jason Trimiew, an operator who is making global supply chains more diverse and deepening the relationships corporations have with the rich talent at small to medium sized businesses. Lenore is the Founder and Managing Partner of Bright Ventures, a venture capital fund which invests thematically in human potential, backing Pre Seed and Seed-stage ventures that will redefine the largest, highest-impact markets: fintech...
2024-11-1226 min
Chief Influencer®Jason Trimiew on The Impact of Supplier Diversity - Chief Influencer - Episode # 032Jason Trimiew is the Director of Global Supplier Diversity at Meta. Under his leadership, Meta became a leader and innovator in supplier diversity. They have spent more than $10 billion cumulatively with US companies certified as minority, women, veteran, LGBTQ, or disabled-owned. Prior to joining Meta, Jason designed and delivered the community impact initiatives for Super Bowl 50, resulting in more than $20 million in grants for Bay Area nonprofits and contracts for local, diverse-owned businesses. Jason and Host Anthony Shop discuss the leverage of radical transparency, the value in obtaining prompt feedback, and how embracing transformative technologies can increase equity in s...
2024-01-0345 min
The New Mainstream PodcastSupplier Diversity: Connecting Entrepreneurs to Economic OpportunitySupplier diversity programs were developed to level the playing field for diverse suppliers, including minority, women, LGBTQ, disabled, and veteran-owned businesses. By connecting entrepreneurs to economic opportunity, ideally, organizations can harness the power of the marketplace to drive social impact.
However, supplier diversity often falls short on the data. It’s widely known that diverse suppliers are not given the opportunities to contract for public sector work at the rate of their non-minority and male counterparts despite the explosive growth of entrepreneurship among minority and women-owned firms. What’s not as clear is how much organizations lose, financially and socially, by f...
2021-11-0345 min
The Honest Field Guide®Ep. 18 - Facebook's Jason Trimiew on How Facebook Is Re-Socializing Supplier DiversityWe have a love/hate relationship with American supplier diversity programs. They don't work for everyone. But what are they really designed to do? And for who? Must businesses go through a "diverse" door to earn big business? Why was it invented anyway? Do we need have supplier diversity programs anymore in the age of social networking? Who is WE anyway? Let's break down the premise that the only way a "diverse" supplier can do business with a powerful company like Facebook is by checking a box. Really? Jason Trimiew, Facebook, Inc.'s Head of Supplier Diversity, has a...
2019-09-2048 min
Economic DevelopmentHelp for Difficult-to-Employ Populations: Colocating Jobs and Training OpportunitiesCan business models be designed to support low-income populations by providing jobs, necessary training, and other support services? In an Economic Development podcast, Carla Javits and Jason Trimiew at the Roberts Enterprise Development Fund discuss their proposal for viable businesses that also include a workforce development component.
2014-02-2600 min