Rebecca Dray's guest appearances

Rebecca Dray

Manufacturing Tomorrow

Creating Social Impact Podcast with Kat Luckock

Herman Miller

Tim Ryan

Amy Nelson

Mark Russell

David Williams

John Miller

Matt Long

Ashley Thompson

Dan Rockwell

Barbara Trautlein

Ruth Kudzi

Steve Phillips

Greg Paulsen

Brandon Cornuke

Joe Sullivan

OwlTail

Originally from the United Kingdom, Rebecca grew up working in the hospitality industry, studying Hospitality Management and working for large companies like Marriott Hotels as well as smaller, community based enterprises. She then went on to work in the non-profit sector, developing mental health advocacy services. Starting her first social enterprise in 2006, she went on to set up seven further social enterprise companies around the country. Rebecca moved to the US in 2014 where she founded a social enterprise called Buy Social USA, offering social procurement support services to global corporations, governments and anchor institutions. Rebecca has travelled both the UK and US giving presentations, training and mentorship on the development of sustainable social enterprise models. Her passion is the creation of collaborative, ground-up approaches to tackling local, national and global social, racial and economic inequity.  In this episode we discuss:  Social Enterprise models &amp; governance in the USA Social Procurement and how it can help social enterprises grow, as well as help corporates have a better social impact The importance of accreditation for the social enterprise sector ....and Rebecca's fascinating story of her journey as a social entrepreneur   Connect with Rebecca and find out more about Buy Social USA  Connect with Kat:   If you love this podcast, share it with your friends by taking a screenshot of an episode you've loved listening to, and sharing it on Instagram stories, tagging me in  @katluckockcoaching I'll share your post on my stories too  Join hundreds of other social entrepreneurs and social impact business owners from around the world in - The Impact Entrepreneurs Club my free Facebook community to connect and learn  Subscribe here to the podcast to receive weekly email updates of the latest episode and find out more about Kat here: www.shareimpact.org   

Originally from the United Kingdom, Rebecca grew up working in the hospitality industry, studying Hospitality Management and working for large companies like Marriott Hotels as well as smaller, community based enterprises. She then went on to work in the non-profit sector, developing mental health advocacy services. Starting her first social enterprise in 2006, she went on to set up seven further social enterprise companies around the country. Rebecca moved to the US in 2014 where she founded a social enterprise called Buy Social USA, offering social procurement support services to global corporations, governments and anchor institutions. Rebecca has travelled both the UK and US giving presentations, training and mentorship on the development of sustainable social enterprise models. Her passion is the creation of collaborative, ground-up approaches to tackling local, national and global social, racial and economic inequity. In this episode we discuss: <ul> <li>Social Enterprise models &amp; governance in the USA</li> <li>Social Procurement and how it can help social enterprises grow, as well as help corporates have a better social impact</li> <li>The importance of accreditation for the social enterprise sector</li> <li>....and Rebecca's fascinating story of her journey as a social entrepreneur</li> </ul> Connect with Rebecca and find out more about <a href="https://www.buysocialusa.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Buy Social USA</a> Connect with Kat: <ul> <li>If you love this podcast, share it with your friends by taking a screenshot of an episode you've loved listening to, and sharing it on Instagram stories, tagging me in <a href="https://www.instagram.com/katluckockcoaching/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> @katluckockcoaching</a> I'll share your post on my stories too </li> <li>Join hundreds of other social entrepreneurs and social impact business owners from around the world in -<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/shareimpact" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> The Impact Entrepreneurs Club</a> my free Facebook community to connect and learn</li> <li> <a href="https://share-impact.ck.page/40df2003e8" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe here</a> to the podcast to receive weekly email updates of the latest episode and find out more about Kat here: <a href="https://www.shareimpact.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.shareimpact.org </a> </li> </ul>

S3 Ep109: Accreditation & Social Procurement in the USA with Rebecca Dray

Rebecca Dray, CEO of Society Profits and executive director of Buy Social USA, focuses her work on building networks of accredited social impact businesses selling goods and services to companies across the US. The goal is to develop a social procurement system that improves society alongside corporate sustainability, shareholder and customer satisfaction &amp; employee retention. Society Profits provides third-party accreditation for social enterprise sellers and helps them gain social procurement contracts, build local networks and improve their social enterprise businesses.			In 2019, Rebecca co-founded Buy Social USA, offering social procurement support services to large corporations, governments and anchor institutions. She served for two years as a Michigan chapter leader for Social Enterprise Alliance and was appointed this year as a board member of the nationwide nonprofit network. In its more than 20-year history, SEA has grown to 1000 members and 16 chapters. 			Prior to her work in the US, Rebecca led community enterprises and nonprofit organization management companies in the United Kingdom.  Rebecca started her career in the hospitality industry working for Marriott Hotels.

Rebecca Dray, CEO of Society Profits and executive director of Buy Social USA, focuses her work on building networks of accredited social impact businesses selling goods and services to companies across the US. The goal is to develop a social procurement system that improves society alongside corporate sustainability, shareholder and customer satisfaction &amp; employee retention. Society Profits provides third-party accreditation for social enterprise sellers and helps them gain social procurement contracts, build local networks and improve their social enterprise businesses. 		 	In 2019, Rebecca co-founded Buy Social USA, offering social procurement support services to large corporations, governments and anchor institutions. She served for two years as a Michigan chapter leader for Social Enterprise Alliance and was appointed this year as a board member of the nationwide nonprofit network. In its more than 20-year history, SEA has grown to 1000 members and 16 chapters. 		 	Prior to her work in the US, Rebecca led community enterprises and nonprofit organization management companies in the United Kingdom. Rebecca started her career in the hospitality industry working for Marriott Hotels.

Rebecca Dray, Society Profits; Buy Social USA