Your support counts

The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is a registered not-for-profit organization located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. It relies on the financial and in-kind support of generous contributors from the network who ensure that GRI can deliver its programs and products.

Our vision of a better future is only as strong as the people who support us.  Contact GRI to discuss how you can support the GRI network and mission.

There are many ways that you can get involved with GRI and help our mission to make our planet more sustainable.

·         Your organization or you, as an individual, can become an Organizational Stakeholder.

·         You can help us by providing financial support to our general work, or to a specific project or event.

·         You can help GRI through in kind support.

Who supports GRI?

GRI is supported by its global network in the following ways:

·         Support from a large international community of Organizational Stakeholders

·         Institutional grants from governments, foundations and international organizations

·         Corporate and governmental sponsorships and in kind support for projects and events

·         Provision of learning and other services

Organizational Stakeholders

Organizational Stakeholders provide an essential funding base that ensures GRI continues to progress towards its mission. Sincere thanks to our many hundred OS participants who provide such valuable support.

Learn more about OS Program

Institutional Support

GRI currently receives institutional support from the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the Netherlands Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning, and the Environment (VROM) the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). We thank our institutional donors for their support.

Past support includes: European Commission, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, UN Foundation, World Bank, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Ford Foundation, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Foundation, United States Environment Protection Agency, V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation, the Soros Foundation, and governmental bodies from the United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway, Germany, and Australia.

Project Grants

To continually improve the content of the framework GRI sets up technical projects, such as Guidelines revision projects, and Sector Supplements. To respond to pre-existing challenges, GRI runs initiatives and projects that proactively create thought leadership on particular issues.

As a network organization GRI also organizes events all over the world to acquaint people with the GRI Guidelines. Each two years GRI organizes the ‘Amsterdam Global Conference on Sustainability and Transparency’, which has developed into the most important network meeting in the field of sustainability reporting worldwide.