Commission on Economic Inclusion
Created in December 2000, the Commission on Economic Inclusion, a program of the GCP, is a broad-based coalition of 108 Northeast Ohio employers who are committed to making the region’s diversity a source of economic strength.
Current Commission members
have a combined workforce of about 191,000 individuals in Northeast Ohio and more than 800,000 employees throughout the U.S.
The Commission serves as a catalyst for advancing economic inclusion in the Northeast Ohio business community. Our key objective is to achieve demonstrated successes that lead to positive, measurable outcomes including:
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Increases in board, senior management, workforce and supplier diversity among our members that include Northeast Ohio public-sector entities, private-sector companies and nonprofit organizations
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Increases in the total revenue, value, size, and number of employees for minority-owned businesses
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Increases in total supplier diversity spend
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Leadership
The Commission is led by Co-chairs Christopher M. Connor, chairman and CEO, The Sherwin-Williams Co., and Brian E. Hall, chairman and CEO, Industrial Inventory Solutions LLC.
Andrew Jackson
, executive director of the Commission and a senior vice president of the GCP, provides staff leadership.
The Commission is in the process of implementing a
new governance structure
to guide its work to enhance member services and promote minoity business development in Northeast Ohio.
Member organizations
All
Commission member organizations
are moving through a strategic process of developing and/or implementing diversity and inclusion strategies. The Commission reports on this process through its annual
Employers Survey on Diversity
and each year recognizes its
Best-in-Class organizations
for progress and best practices in board, senior management, workforce and supplier diversity.
Contact us
For more information, contact
Deborah Bridwell
, GCP's senior director of inclusion initiatives, or call (216) 592-2345. Read more about the Commission in our
quarterly newsletter
.