As a newly formed company, Constellation is working to develop a diverse business empowerment program that increases our spend with diverse suppliers and drives meaningful economic impact into the communities we serve. This is paramount because Constellation serves customers across the United States, including some of the nation’s largest and most ethnically diverse geographic areas. To drive economic impact, innovation, and promote competition, we firmly believe that our supply base, workforce, and culture must reflect the diversity of our customers and communities we serve.

We have made significant strides in our first year as a stand-alone company to achieve these objectives by establishing a foundation that enables Supplier Diversity to be a part of Constellation’s core fabric of everything we do, and a key component of our ESG strategy. This foundation is being established by the following actions:

• Increasing Constellation’s direct spend with diverse suppliers and, through non-diverse suppliers, subcontracting to diverse suppliers
• External Focus – Building relationships with the external diversity advocates and councils (NMSDC, Disability:IN, NVBDC, NGLCC, WBENC), Trade Associations (AABE, HIE, A2EC, etc), and External Stakeholders
• Internal Focus – Continuing to expand diverse business education, dedication, and evaluation of processes, and potential barriers internally across Constellation
• Driving actions and results through targeted Metrics and Reporting
• Partner closely with our DEI and Workforce Development teams because we firmly believe that supplier diversity + DEI + workforce development = Economic Impact

At the end of the day, Constellation is committed to maximizing opportunities for minority, women, veteran/service-disabled veteran, LGBTQ, disabled, and federal HUBZone-owned business enterprises.

Furthermore, we seek Suppliers that share this value and expect our Suppliers to support our goals for Supplier diversity, including utilization of diverse prime contractors and subcontractors, accurate reporting of diverse subcontracting and development of their own diversity programs.

• Increased Constellation spend directly with diverse suppliers as well as through non-diverse suppliers subcontracting to diverse suppliers by double digits in our inaugural year as a newly formed company.
• Launched the Supplier Diversity Business Advocates team, an internal network of leaders from across Constellation committed to expanding supplier diversity.
• Established relationship and partnerships with many national and local diverse and small business associations and chambers.