Small Business Success Story: OutSmart Office Solutions & LGBT Certification
OutSmart Office Solutions’ co-owners are gay and lesbian, and they want their customers to know it.
George Pieper and Dawn Ackerman’s business is certified by the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC), a Washington D.C.-based organization that supports business owners who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender. As a certified LGBT-owned business, OutSmart Office can market their office supplies and office design services to the NGLCC’s corporate partners: Fortune 500 companies that have pledged to work with diverse suppliers.
“We’re coming out as business owners every day,” Pieper says. “We don’t want to have to be in the closet to serve our clients.”
