Corporate representatives and MBE selected by the Board. All Board   Members are elected and Board Subcommittees members are appointed.

This committee is responsible for review and recommendation of MBEs for the certification process. The committee is governed by policies and procedures set by both the bylaws of the GMSDC and the National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC). The Chair of the BOD appoints the members of this committee.

This sub-committee is responsible for developing and enhancing Corporate Supplier Diversity Programs by sharing best business practices, trends, bench-marks, program measurement, 2nd tier, etc., which impacts Minority Business development and corporate Supplier Diversity strategies.

This committee is responsible developing sessions and/or curriculum that are relevant to business and enhance the knowledge base for GMSDC's constituency.

This sub-committee is responsible for providing an environment in which potential business opportunities for minority Architects, Engineers, Contractors, and Construction related services in the construction industry could be quickly identified. The committee will develop relationships and plan activities, which foster alliances between GMSDC members, general contractors, corporations, governmental agencies, and MBEs. T

MISSION OF IT COMMITTEE: “Our mission is to provide increased opportunities to organizations (corporations and government agencies) to increase their diversity spend for IT products and services by enabling a convenient way for their buyers to access certified MBEs, who are committed to (individually and/or jointly) to provide high quality, cost effective and reliable IT solutions.” HOW DOES IT WORK? IT committee is a forum for IT companies in GMSDC to collectively serve our clients and win additional business by:

• Actively promoting teaming and collaboration to serve the best needs of the customer

• Aggressively exploring and exchanging opportunities

• Sharing with each other our core competencies

• Learning Best practices from one another

• Creating vehicles to offer organizations single source access to high quality, cost

  effective and reliable IT solutions

This committee is responsible for ensuring adequate minority business participation in GMSDC programs and services. It oversees GMSDC community relations with other support groups. It provides advice and counsel to the Chair on GMSDC or National Minority Supplier Development Council initiatives. It monitors council programs to ensure their applicability to the council's mission on behalf of minority owned and operated businesses. The Chair of MBEIC appoints an MBE to serve as co-chair on GMSDC committees.

Comprised of MBEs whose products and services generally fall outside the normal corporate procurement process. Within GMSDC professional services are generally represented by: Human Resource Management, Employee Assistance Programs and Managed Behavioral Health, Creative Service, Business Development and Operations, Multi Media, Marketing, Public Relations, Legal, Insurance, Quality Control, Staffing Augmentation (and other) related firms.

The purpose of this committee is to facilitate roundtable discussions between public/private sector entities and minority owned staffing companies. Topics include: Corporate Purchasing Strategies for Staffing Needs, Public Sector Purchasing Strategies, Understanding VMS Technologies related to procuring Staffing, and much more.

There is still time to sign up and serve on one or more of our committees.

If interested in please contact FlorenaO@gmsdc.org or info@gmsdc.org.