Fast Track - Social Responsibility

As seen on CityPulse News this brief clip features Anne Carroll, President of Logotex, as she explains how her business has partnered with the community to make a social impact.

Vancouver Social Purchasing Portal

Logotex is proud to be one of the first supplier members of the Social Purchasing Portal (SPP) – a web-based application that integrates supply chain economics and corporate social responsibility to achieve community benefits. The goal of the SPP is to build healthier communities by creating employment opportunities for the hard to employ and initiating targeted business growth.

How It Works:
In the process of purchasing goods and services, companies already choose suppliers - such as food services/catering, printing, packaging, couriers, promotional materials, building maintenance, recycling and landscaping - based on the values of quality, service and price. In the Social Purchasing Portal, the purchasing companies add one other criterion to the selection process - social value.

So, all things being equal (price, quality, value, etc.) in quotes from the suppliers of goods or services, the purchaser is interested in one additional component that the provider could offer: what social value can be generated through the purchase agreement? Will the supplier of the services and goods, as a part of the contract, hire new employees from the targeted training programs? Or is the supplier of services and goods located in a geographically defined development area?

Benefits:
The Social Purchasing Portal integrates corporate social responsibility into existing business-to-business purchasing and supplier relationships and builds on the existing community based employment services and community development efforts. The components already exist - SPP is the tool that brings them together into a mutually beneficial relationship. It offers benefits to everyone participating.

Successful community economic development requires business retention and growth. The SPP markets directly to motivated purchasers, and directs contracts to participating suppliers, creating the opportunities for the local suppliers to gain a direct advantage to grow their businesses.

Communities:
The SPP promotes economic development for inner city businesses and employment opportunities for the hard-to-employ or long-term unemployed to the participating purchasers and suppliers. In the Downtown Eastside, working with the network of employment development services of FTE, the SPP suppliers sign a contract that will give employment advantages to qualified persons who are ready to re-enter the labour force.

The Social Purchasing Portal is a partnership of FTE and BCT SVP.

Contact: info@ftebusiness.org or call 604.687.7712

Glen Eden

Logotex is pleased to have raised over $20,000 from our annual golf tournaments for the Glen Eden Centre over the past years. We strongly believe that if a child is helped to become successful in the school system, they are more likely to be successful in life – and that benefits all of society.

Glen Eden is an independent, not-for-profit treatment centre and school that assists children and adolescents who are unable to function effectively in a typical school system. These students experience numerous social and scholastic failures because they process information differently. They are bright, capable kids who get beaten down by a system through no fault of their own – and Glen Eden gives them and their families a helping hand up to success!

Glen Eden is designed for the complex child who has learning challenges due to a possible combination of medical, psychological/and or psychiatric causes such as Autistic Spectrum Disorder, Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, anxiety or other psychosocial challenges. Established in 1984, Glen Eden is the only centre of its kind in Western North America that provides an educational setting combined with a clinical treatment focus.

• Glen Eden is best suited for the "complex" child who is unable to function   effectively in a typical school system due to a possible combination of medical,   psychological and/or psychiatric causes

• Glen Eden accepts boys and girls from grades Kindergarten to 12

• Glen Eden offers a 10-month program from September to June, a summer   program in July and August, as well as part-time and outreach programs

• Glen Eden is accredited through the British Columbia Ministry of Education

• Glen Eden accepts students from other parts of Canada, as well as   internationally. They can also assist with student residential placements

• Glen Eden enrolls children throughout the course of the school year

• Glen Eden understands that meaningful education must:

- Consider the complete child both physically and mentally
- Respond to individual needs
- Offer an environment that is experientially and conceptually rich
- Facilitate socialization
- Apply advances in research that affect learning

Glen Eden assess all aspects of a child's makeup - social, emotional, physical, and psychological, rather than focusing on specific symptoms (such as poor reading skills, etc).

To make a contribution to Glen Eden, or for further information, please contact:

Online: www.gleneden.org

Email: gleneden@mdi.ca

Glen Eden Multimodal Centre,
8665 Barnard Street
Vancouver, B.C. Canada
V6P 5G6

Telephone: 604-267-0394 Fax: 604-267-0544

Office Hours:

Monday to Thursday - 8:00am to 4:00pm

Fridays - 8:00am to 2:00pm

Zajac Foundation

Logotex is proud to contribute to the Zajac Foundation through the donation of embroidery services for the annual Zajac Women's Invitational Golf Tournament.

The Zajac Foundation is dedicated to the enhancement of life through the development of intergenerational activities. Their commitment is to build adaptable housing for seniors, those with disabilities and those with low income. At these housing facilities they also run intergenerational programs for the benefit of seniors and children, and the promotion of community. The funds raised through joint partnerships, strategic alliances, events and other revenue creation projects will be directed towards serving the special needs of seniors and children.

Through ownership of the facilities it creates, the Foundation will establish a multi-million dollar endowment and thus enable the organization to provide intergenerational services and housing into perpetuity.

The achievements and contributions of the Mel Jr. & Marty Zajac Foundation include:

• The Zajac Norgate House, in North Vancouver for seniors and persons with disabilities

• The Sandcastle Developmental Preschool, in Mission, providing integrative programs for children with special needs

• The Variety Park Playground, in Burnaby, designed for children who have special needs

• Capital support for the BC Centre for Ability, a non-profit society that promotes successful community participation for individuals with disabilities

• A lift bus and murals for BC’s Children’s Hospital

• Advanced technological equipment for BC’s Bone Marrow Registry

• Renovation of UBC Hospital’s In Vitro Fertilization Laboratory

• An endowment fund for the United Way of the Lower Mainland Covenant House, a safe place for street youth to make a fresh start

• A portable kidney dialysis machine for the BC Kidney Foundation

For more information: www.zajac.com

The Zajac Summer Swim Camp for athletes of all abilities

Advertising Specialty Innstitute (ASI)

Logotex is an ASI-listed specialty advertising professional, and indicating that we have met the necessary criteria for an ASI network listing. The Advertising Specialty Institute® is the information hub of the promotional products industry. More than 20,000 suppliers (manufacturers) and distributors (sellers) drive their businesses with their print and electronic resources. ASI produces catalogs, directories, newsletters, magazines, websites, databases and cutting-edge interactive business tools. ASI also hosts four national trade shows each year and participates in dozens of regional shows throughout the U.S. and abroad.

Canadian Professional Sales Association (CPSA)

The Canadian Professional Sales Association is a national association comprised of nearly 30,000 sales and marketing professionals located in communities of all sizes, in every part of Canada.

Canadian Federation of Independant Business (CFIB)

Canadian Federation of Independent Business works on behalf of more than 100,000 independent business owners in every sector and region in Canada. Taking their direction from CFIB members through regular surveys, CFIB lobbies for small and medium-sized businesses at the federal, provincial and local levels of government.

Building Opportunities with Business

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Jesse Ferrell

An amazing man and friend. Jesse Ferrell has been educating and energizing students, common folks, fellow educators, executives and senior executives for the past 25 years.

Promotional Products Professionals of Canada (PPPC)

Logotex is a member of the Promotional Products Association of Canada, a professional association of suppliers and distributors of promotional products.

Promotional Products Association International (PPAI)

Promotional Products Association International is the international trade association of the promotional products industry. PPAI is a member-driven organization devoted to meeting the needs of its members and the market.

Terminal City Club

Terminal City Club is located in the heart of the financial centre of the city of Vancouver. The Club is within two blocks of the cruise ship terminal and conference centre at Canada Place. There is easy access to entertainment venues and transportation.

Tourism Vancouver

Tourism Vancouver is a business association representing approximately 1,050 members in tourism and related industries/activities. Their purpose is to effectively market greater Vancouver as a destination for leisure, meeting and event travelers. Tourism Vancouver's goals are to attract visitors to the region, encourage them to stay longer and ensure that they return.

Tourism Victoria

Tourism Victoria is the official not-for-profit tourism industry association that works in partnership with over 900 business members and municipalities in the Greater Victoria area and the surrounding communities of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

Vancouver AM

Vancouver AM is a networking association that supports and promotes the tourism and hospitality industry by staying connected and developing new tourism initiatives.

Vancouver Executives Association (VanEx)

Vancouver Executives Association is a consortium of the top business and professional leaders in Vancouver. Since 1920, the members of the Vancouver Executives Association have been committed to supplying quality reputable goods and services to the Greater Vancouver marketplace and beyond. It is one of the longest-standing business associations in Vancouver.

Women Presidents' Organization (WPO)

The WPO is a non-profit membership organization for women presidents of multimillion-dollar companies. Members of the WPO take part in professionally-facilitated peer advisory groups in order to coax the 'genius out of the group' and grow their businesses to the next level.