CIPS Foundation
Improving the lives of individuals and communities globally through better procurement and supply chain practices.
The CIPS Foundation exists to transform people’s lives through professionalising procurement and supply chains. By using best practice procurement as a system lever, the Foundation is tackling environmental and social issues head-on to embed lasting systemic change.
Our funded programmes implement procurement and supply chain interventions to address climate action, economic inequality, reduce hunger and poverty and tackle human rights abuses. What sets us apart from other grant-makers is the expertise an intervention that CIPS brings to these projects. Our global standards in procurement and supply create lasting change. By professionalising procurement and supply, we embed solid foundations for sustainable growth and create agents for change.
Our projects
Unseen
The first phase of Unseen’s funded programme is now transitioning, and phase two begins with a new focus on developing unique insights from The Modern Slavery & Exploitation Helpline and Business data to equip supply chain professionals with intelligence to drive behaviour change and build ethical procurement practices.
The Size of Wales
Funding has been allocating for a second year to upskill procurement and supply chain professionals working for Welsh public bodies and businesses in sustainable practices. The project raises awareness of the impact of imported products such as palm oil, beef from South America, coffee, cacao and those with embedded soy on tropical deforestation and the associated human rights violations.
Children's Book Project
The Children’s Book Project is a UK-based charity whose aim is to make sure that all children have access to a book of their own. Funding from CIPS Foundation will help them grow and scale to meet their target of distributing a million books in 2026.
ActionAid
ActionAid are leading on an initiative that will address the problem of child labour in two cocoa-producing areas of Ghana. The project aims to help the Ghanaian government enforce its National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights and deliver a 20% reduction in child labour in cocoa-growing areas.
Half the Story
CIPS Foundation is supporting biscuit company Half the Story by professionalising their procurement and supply chain operations. The fact that they make biscuits is just ‘half the story’. They are a social enterprise who provide meaningful work, and support to people who have faced major barriers to work, including homelessness, to rebuild their lives.
Human Practice Foundation
Through CIPS best practice and advisory services we are helping the Human Practice Foundation to support the HPF Coffee Programme. The programme provides economic empowerment work in Nepal combining sustainable agriculture with access to international coffee markets. The initiative helps parents build stable incomes, enabling their children to attend school and break the cycle of poverty.
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Procurement Professional
MCIPS
“Thank you CIPS foundation for changing the course of my life, my family and my work. I will use my CIPS education and the chartered status to inspire other needy students in Kenya and Africa and to give them hope that nothing is impossible for a willing heart and mind.”
Procurement Professional
MCIPS
“Achieving the MCIPS title is a dream come true. This will open new opportunities for growth in my current job and future job opportunities. It will strengthen my confidence in the procurement and supply chain field and also help me support myself and my family with job stability”