Detroit Regional LGBT Chamber of Commerce

About

The Detroit Regional LGBT Chamber of Commerce mission is to promote and empower our Metropolitan Detroit LGBT, allied business members, non-profit members, corporate partners and their employees through leadership, advocacy and education.

• Leading through professional development

• Advocating for Inclusive business practices.

• Educating small to large businesses on LGBT-Certification & business growth

Formed in 2013, our Chamber is an affiliate of National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce and OUT & Equal, an international network of LGBTQ Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), making us the experts in organizational diversity and business development. We advocate for inclusion of all people, especially Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Ally people within the fabric of the southeastern Michigan business community. Our differences can create organic innovations in all our enterprises. We advocate for inclusion of all people, especially the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, + Ally Business Community in Southeastern Michigan. Recognizing our differences can organically create innovations in enterprise.

By building a LGBT Chamber of Commerce, leading Michigan’s Employee Resource Groups (MERGE), and an affiliate of National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce and OUT & Equal, we own the landscape of LGBT employees and employers. We are the subject matter experts for organizational diversity and business development.

Corporate Partner Message:

Detroit Regional LGBT Chamber of Commerce provides diversity certification to majority LGBT owned business enterprises and creates an avenue in which corporate America can do business with the LGBT business community. As a certifying body, DRLGBTCC serves as a conduit between corporate America and LGBT-owned businesses and entrepreneurs. This gives the LGBTBE certified DRLGBTCC members access to professional development and sourcing opportunities with major corporations.

As a DRLGBTCC Corporate Partner, the DRLGBTCC will advance a company’s diversity practices and reach, as well as enable access to the expansive buying power of the LGBT community. Partnering with the DRLGBTCC on LGBT supplier diversity confirms that a corporation’s supply chain mirrors the diverse customer and employee base that the company has or seeks to attract.