NGLCC Interview with Stencil1 Founder Ed Roth

Stencil1 founder, Ed Roth, was recently interviewed for the NGLCCNY blog. The National LGBT Chamber of Commerce New York (nglccNY) provides valuable business development opportunities, financial access, and educational resources to LGBT and allied businesses in the New York Metro area. As the official Metro New York affiliate chamber of the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce, nglccNY is the voice of thousands of LGBT-owned businesses and actively promotes and creates supplier diversity and procurement opportunities for its growing base of corporate partners and business members.http://www.nglccny.org/
Of his membership, Ed says 

“Everyone has been so supportive. It’s been cool. I am grateful that the companies NGLCC works with have supplier diversity programs. I had sales into other retailers before my certification. However, it is definitely an added plus. It’s important to these companies to include LGBT businesses among their vendors. While the deciding factor is your product, the NGLCC certification gets another person under that roof rallying for you when you aren’t there. Besides following up with buyers, I follow up with the diversity team. It’s another contact point, they become an ally for your brand.” 

Ed Roth

The full article, written by Brian  Gorman, can be found here.

http://nglccny.blogspot.com/2019/05/supplier-spotlight-stencil1.html