In the article, “Buy local: How Philly’s biggest institutions can help create a more equitable post-coronavirus region,” J’nelle Lawrence and Jeff Hornstein explain how minority small businesses are “bearing the brunt” of the COVID-19 epidemic. Anchor institutions, from hospitals to major corporations, spend billions of dollars per year outside the region. How can those dollars stay in Philly? One way is through the initiative: an effort to create a platform for aggregating demand and going local.
Here is the core challenge from the article:
Yet there is a bottleneck on the “supply” side. Too many local firms simply lack the capacity and access to the right kinds of capital to achieve scale and compete for institutional contracts.
J’nelle Lawrence and Jeff Hornstein
GETTING ORGANIZED
