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Business Resources for CWLA Members
I am pleased and excited to welcome CWLA members to our Purchasing Point web portal. This partnership with Consorta is the most comprehensive business savings benefit we have ever offered to our members. By joining with many other national nonprofits, we are now able to offer you more savings on more products with more vendors for goods and services you use every day.
We have identified an initial listing of vendors we believe will be of greatest interest to CWLA members, but you are not limited to those we have chosen. CWLA members are free to explore Consorta's comprehensive network of providers of goods and services. We encourage you to let other members know what you think through ratings and comments in the vendor selection area of the site.
What do you get?
The chance to shop where the really big guys do...the national nonprofits that spend millions of dollars on overhead and supply chain purchasing. All of us, no matter how small, have the opportunity to get the same price breaks they do.
One of our members was certain their office supply prices were unbeatable, but through this opportunity they save hundreds of thousands annually over and above the savings they had been receiving.
What do we get?
Consorta receives approximately 1% from all purchasing and splits it with CWLA. That's how we pay for this program and the ongoing development of this web portal. Vendors are willing to pay this fee to have access to all our nonprofits and their volume through Consorta. They bid out and administer the contracts on everyone's behalf.
I encourage you to try out a couple of vendors; you have no obligation to continue.
The bottom line
We think this is a terrific program and hope you agree. The savings available to you on food, paint, medical and maintenance supplies, cleaning supplies, paper products, express delivery, and more will most often be in the 10%-40% range.
We also hope you will participate in this portal by sharing information with each other, rating your vendors, and telling us what you think, making it an even more powerful tool to drive down your overhead.
How do we participate?
This benefit is for CWLA member agencies only. To link to the Purchasing Point web portal, go to CWLA's members-only website. To log in, you'll need your agency's member number and password. If you don't have that information, links on the login screen allow you to request that this information be emailed to you.
Once you have logged in, go to the "What's New" box under "Special Features" on the right of the screen, and click on "Purchasing Point Web Portal."
Christine James Brown
President and CEO
Child Welfare League of America
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