Want to know how to drive the economy through social enterprise? DePaul Industries’ CEO Dave Shaffer, a 2011 Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year finalist, will be a featured speaker at this year’s Social Enterprise Ecosystem and Economic Development (SEEED) summit.
DePaul Packaging’s Hayden Island facility just received an AIB International score of 970 on its latest Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) Inspection for Consolidated Standards for Food Safety report. Any score of above 900 is considered a ‘Superior’ Rating, and we’re thrilled to have exceeded that mark since 2006.
AIB International is accepted as the auditing standard in the food processing industry and is committed to protecting the safety of the food supply chain by performing rigorous independent inspections, superior audits and training. DePaul Packaging’s food safety standards report includes high scores on cleaning practices, operational methods and personnel practices, and administering prerequisite and food safety programs, such as our Heart of the Workforce (HOW) Program.
We meet or exceed GMP standards for food allergen control, back-flow prevention devices (which protect water supplies from contamination), clean food contact surfaces, random sanitation testing, and many others. We’re also proud to have a dedicated Quality Assurance manager as well as a Hazard Analysis & Critical Control Points (HACCP) system in place, to ensure that all of our co-packing operations and supply chain management maintain the high standards of our customers.
Visit DePaul Packaging to learn more about our facility and the co-packing and processing solutions we provide.
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There’s a great radio overview of the DePaul Industries’ business model at 105.1 FM The Buzz, highlighting our various business units and how we operate a integrated social venture—successfully helping business and people with disabilities simultaneously. It’s an interview with CEO Dave Shaffer from a little over a year ago, but it is still supremely relevant to the way we operate:
“Our business is completely competitively driven. There are no excuses. People are not hiring us or engaging us because we employ people with disabilities. They’re engaging us because they need to have the work done.”
Listen to the interview at 105.1 The Buzz.
DePaul Industries CEO Dave Shaffer joins two other Portland-area nonprofit leaders in a panel discussion about earned income and operating a social enterprise to advance a social mission. The panel is presented by the Nonprofit Association of Oregon this Wednesday, February 1, 2012 at Ecotrust Conference Center at 8 a.m. – 10 a.m. Here are the details:
Moderator
+ Mark Van Ness, Founder, Real Leaders and Social Enterprise Loan Fund
Partner, Social Venture Partners Portland
Panel
+ Alison Brown, Director of Adelante Empresas, Adelante Mujeres
+ Catherine Ellingson, Enterprise Director, New Avenues for Youth
+ Dave Shaffer, President/Chief Executive Officer, DePaul Industries
Presentation & Continental Breakfast at 8:00
Networking at 9:30
Is social enterprise—earned income ventures in nonprofit organizations—an appropriate strategy to advance our missions? Moving beyond earned income as a way to diversify revenue, this session explores commercial approaches to delivering the programs and services that strengthen our missions and our communities.
Register for this event now!
