Corporate Member

Congratulations to our 2022 Connections to Contracts award winners! The Corporate Momentum Award is given to a WBCS Corporate Member who has the highest year over year increase in WBE spend. This year, Lockheed Martin was the recipient for achieving an incredible 150% increase from 2020 to 2021! The award was received by Scott Dobbs, Director of Procurement at Lockheed Martin, who is also a recent addition to the WBCS Board of Directs. Congratulations to Lockheed Martin and thank you for being an example of championing diverse spend. One of the prime missions of the Women's Business Council -

Our 2021 Annual Meeting was held on Thursday, November 4th at the Laurel in Grapevine, TX. It was exciting to see over 200 of our members in-person and face-to-face after almost two years, and we are grateful to all who attended!

This annual survey helps us helps us to measure our success and provides valuable insights as to who is spending with WBEs and promoting supplier diversity.

Join us this year for Connections to Contracts, a procurement-focused event connecting women-owned businesses with corporations and each other. The goal of this virtual event is to provide access to business opportunities between our members that eventually lead to contracts, therefore helping women-owned businesses achieve parity.

Thank you to our Corporate and WBE Members who have stepped up their support for our 2021 programming and events.

If you are looking to do business with our Corporate (Sustaining) Members, the roundtable sessions are the perfect opportunity for you to connect with Supplier Diversity professionals.

This annual survey helps us helps us to measure our success and provides valuable insights as to who is spending with WBEs and promoting supplier diversity.

This program is intended to promote economic development by encouraging and enabling women-owned small businesses to start new projects. Up to 10 business owners will be selected to receive a $5,000 grant each.

July 15-19 has been designated as Business Week for Supplier Diversity and The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, our Corporate member, is hosting the Business Summit for Supplier Diversity.

As part of the 2019 Toyota Mentorship program, WBEs recently visited the Toyota facility in San Antonio for an up-close look at Toyota's history, manufacturing process, and use of their Just-in-Time supply chain strategy.