Purchase with Purpose

The Purchase with Purpose program aims to create opportunities for participation of local, small, diverse, and sustainable businesses in supplying our campus with goods and services.

VPF Supports This Program Through:

  • Conducting outreach to local business organizations, chambers of commerce, and national business enterprise associations to inform suppliers about opportunities to work with MIT.
  • Ensuring local and small businesses, and those owned by women, veterans, people of color, the LGBTQ+ community, and those with disabilities are engaged during the sourcing process.
  • Working with all suppliers to identify environmentally preferable products and services they can offer to our campus purchasers.
  • Providing campus purchasers with information about local, small, diverse, and sustainable suppliers and offering resources facilitate transactions with these businesses.