How Group Purchasing Empowers Charter Schools: CPA's Insights from NCSC '25

This summer, staff from the Community Purchasing Alliance Co-op attended the largest gathering of charter school leaders in the country at the National Charter School Conference (NCSC).

We spoke with charter leaders all conference long about some of the challenges that they face in their work. From a changing regulatory landscape, to safety concerns and rising costs – there is no shortage of worries on school operations leaders’ minds.

CPA OpsJuly 24, 2025non-profits, nonprofit utility savings, charter schools, Community Purchasing Alliance, public charter school, contracts, vendors

400 Vendor Reviews in the Palm of Your Hand

What if you know the vendors that your peers were using?

What if you had insight into their candid review of what their work was like?

I’d like to show you what we’ve started building with MARVL.

Felipe WitchgerOctober 14, 2019dc, public charter school, vendor review, yelp, vendors, MARVL, MBE