Haworth offers new employee purchasing program

Celeste Frye, co-founder and CEO of New York City-based Public Works Partners, a consulting and planning firm, speaks highly of public procurement departments across the U.S. “In our work with large city procurement offices, we see that these entities are working to make procurement faster and fairer.” Frye knows of what she speaks: she has […]

Grant Ervin, Pittsburgh’s chief resilience officer and assistant director, Department of City Planning, is proud of his team’s achievements. One of those successes was reaching the city’s 100-percent renewable electricity target in 2020. Ervin’s team met that target by purchasing renewable energy credits. “But along the way—and this is kind of a continuous improvement—we learned […]

Annie Teav, the 2021 winner of NIGP’s Young Professional of the Year award, says new public procurement professionals should scope out career tools that can help them in their jobs. “Find as many resources as you can that can assist you when you need career help.” She says those resources can steer procurement novices to […]

It is important to give government workers the pathways for upward mobility, believes Julie Nelson, co-director of the Government Alliance for Race and Equity (GARE), a national coalition of governments working to achieve racial equity and advance opportunities for everyone. GARE’s Membership Network is composed of more than 350 jurisdictions that are leading local and regional governments’ […]