Buy your masks from black-owned businesses here
Here is an opportunity where you can make a good decisions for our own institution and contribute to building a vehicle to tackle systemic racism in our economics.
You can choose who you buy from.
Kerma Medical, a black-owned business in Virginia is offering 3-ply surgical masks for $0.53.
Surgical 3-ply Mask - Co-op Price $0.53
Carolina Textile District PPE, a person-of-color worker-owned co-op, is making and selling high quality cloth masks with medical grade antimicrobial fabric for $4.12 -- or if we get enough volume for $3.86 per mask.
Carolina Textile District PPE Masks made from medical-grade antimicrobial Biosmart fabric.
You can place an order here from these and other vendors.
154 organizations have come together.
We vetted 11 suppliers across 20 items. These businesses rose to the top for a variety of reasons - quality, price, terms and more.
You can see the price list on page 2 of this background document or below.
We invite you to join us by submitting an order as part of this cooperative effort before July 7 at 12 noon ET.
(If you’re reading this after July 7, we’ll like organize another purchase in August.)
By placing an order through our co-op order form by July 7, we'll be able to get volume discounts because of the large number of organizations buying together.
Place your Order Here before July 7 at 12 noon
If you're interested, but not ready to order, you can complete this simple interest form and we'll keep you in the loop. We'll organize another group purchase in August.
Please spread the word.
Once again:
Please spread the word.
As with all of our buying collaborations we look for your input and to share what you’re seeing.
What’s working? And what’s not working?
The more you share, the more it will help us build the collective’s market insight, especially in this time of need, supply chain challenges, and uncertainty.