Opportunities for Corporate Members
- Nationwide Buy Veteran campaign
- Promotions for services and products twice a year around Independence and Veterans Day
- Connect with veteran businesses to successfully hire and employ other veterans, military spouses, National Guard members and Reservists
- Promote the use of veteran businesses in their supply chain
- Sponsor entrepreneurial programs that support veteran entrepreneurs
- Provide education or programs for veteran small business
- Provide mentoring for small business
- Participate in Working Groups to develop definitive Veteran Owned Business Database, document and inform leading practices for entrepreneurship
- Contribute and receive data about Veteran small businesses
Corporate Members
Corporate Members will primarily be large, mostly Fortune 1000, companies with robust supply chain and procurement operations and channels, whether they currently include veteran and family-owned businesses or not. Corporate members with supply chain needs will be required to progress toward inclusion of veteran and/or military-family owned businesses in their supply chains; will be required to share portals or pathways for business owners to present their products or services, or to share their RFPs with such business owners. Additional corporate members will be those with significant resources which will be used to promote veteran and military-owned family businesses, whether in supply chains or consumer and retail facing businesses. These resources may be aligned with business purposes and promotion of related veteran and military-family owned business, services, and products. Applications will be considered by coalition members for inclusion with IVMF making final determinations as to inclusion as a member based on fitting these criteria and others which may be developed or promulgated in the future.