Georgia Enterprises for Products and Services is a specific type of purchasing program called a State Use Program. Established by the Georgia Legislature in 1993 through O.C.G.A. #50-5-135, its design is to expand employment opportunities of citizens with disabilities. The purpose of the program is to encourage and assist individuals with severe disabilities in achieving maximum personal independence through productive and gainful employment by assuring and expanding a constant market for their products and services.
The idea is simple: state and local government agencies purchase products and services they already need, at a fair price, from Georgia-based community organizations employing people with disabilities.
State Use revenues are used to provide on-the-job training, employment opportunities, and wages to disabled citizens so they can achieve maximum independence.
It is about turning disabilities into possibilities.
To afford Georgians with disabilities the opportunity to perform aptly in doing meaningful work and to gain the self-respect, self-confidence, and a sense of purpose that productive employment can bring, while providing quality products and services at reasonable prices.
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Name | Title | Phone | |
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Shawn Pursley | Executive Director | 1-678-571-6612 | spursley@georgiaenterprises.com |
Teresa Beck | Director of Accounting | 1-800-387-1236 | tbeck@asginfo.net |
April Sheppard | Customer Service | 1-800-331-4807 | c_s@georgiaenterprises.com |
Stephanie Boyd | Customer Service | 1-800-331-4807 | c_s@georgiaenterprises.com |
Christina Zolomy | Customer Service | 1-800-331-4807 | c_s@georgiaenterprises.com |
To support and encourage state and local agencies to purchase products and services from qualified non-profit organizations, which serve the vocational needs of Georgians with disabilities.
Reid Laurens
Chair * Representing the Business Community
Christopher Valley
Vice Chair * Representing Persons with Disabilities
Commissioner
Rebecca Sullivan Department of Administrative Services
Jim Barnaby, DOAS Representative
Commissioner
Candice L. Broce Department of Human Services
Demetrius Taylor, DHS Representative
Commissioner
Tyrone Oliver Department of Corrections
Ross Barrineau, DOC Representative
Commissioner
Kevin Tanner Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities
Robert Bell, DBHDD Representative
Commissioner
Christopher Nunn Department of Community Affairs
William Dews, DCA Representative
Charles F. Smith * Representing the Business Community
Marty Owens * Representing Organizations Who Represent Persons with Disabilities
Dorothy Cochran * Representing Persons with Disabilities
Rick Hooper * Representing the Business Community
Lyndsey Rudder * Representing Organizations Who Represent Persons with Disabilities
Jay Mitchell * Representing the Business Community
Wanda Warren *Representing the Business Community
Kerri Hammond * Representing Persons with Disabilities
*Denotes appointment by Governor