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The National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce in 2008 welcomed its first transgender-owned LGBT enterprise, GEI Inc., based in Greenwood, Ind., to its long list of certified LGBT businesses.

Marketplaces are rapidly evolving, and businesses that embrace diversity are set to gain a competitive advantage.

As corporate America embraces diversity and the depth of experience that accompanies it, its counsels too are responding to the growing demand for inclusion of women, minorities and LGBT groups in their supply chains.

Integrity Staffing Solutions began as a two-person operation, audaciously trying things never considered before in the temporary employment industry. Today, it's a $90 million firm with hundreds of clients, including major corporations like Amazon.com.

With National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce certification, you can take the giant leap to offer your products and services to the corporate giants.

When the American Family Association took issue with McDonald's for its sponsorship of the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, what was missing from the group's assault were the facts.

Hospitality giant Marriott International, Inc., is the latest Fortune 500 company to partner with the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce to include NGLCC-certified, LGBT-owned vendors in its supplier diversity program.

LBT women in the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce competing for supplier diversity contracts now have even more certification resources open to them.

Smart decisions, sweat equity and a bit of luck transformed your up-by-the-bootstraps company into a thriving enterprise. Lately, you've been looking for a way to take it to another level, though you're not quite sure how to do it.

When IBM's Irwin Drucker was tapped in 1999 to be the company's first GLBT supplier diversity program director, he was elated at the prospect.