Who We Are

The Global Fairness Initiative (GFI) promotes a more equitable, sustainable approach to economic development for the world's working poor by advancing fair wages, equal access to markets and balanced public policy to generate opportunity and end the cycle of poverty. The GFI approach:

• Engage multiple players - workers, employers, and government - to find economic solutions and create economic opportunity.

• Partner with locally established organizations to have the greatest impact and lasting results.

• Leverage international networks of respected experts, political and social luminaries, trade and commerce officials, and business leaders to maximize the inputs and impacts of GFI programs.

What We Do

Since 2002, GFI has improved hundreds of thousands of lives in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. We have developed innovative programs to preserve and create jobs, empowered women by removing barriers to economic success, implemented fair wages and increased revenues and attracted domestic and foreign direct investment. GFI programs achieve success in 5 core areas:

• Engage Government »

• Invest in Women Producers »

• Build Workforce Capacity »

• Improve Access to Markets »

• Bring Fairness to Free Trade »

Why GFI Now

The world today is increasingly interconnected through global political, financial and social mechanisms that create opportunity and drive innovation. Yet, for the fifty percent of the population that lives on less than $2 a day these new global structures have created increased economic isolation and significantly worsened the income gap for millions of working poor. Creating meaningful economic progress for the global poor requires people and programs that connect local knowledge and leadership with global innovation and structures so that top down opportunity is interwoven with bottom up capacity. The Global Fairness Initiative is a leader in bridging the connection between capacity and opportunity and creating meaningful and sustainable livelihoods for small farmers, textile workers and marginalized poor communities throughout the globe. Demand has grown for GFI's innovative programs to reach further into Africa, Asia and Latin America and we are committed meeting the need, but never to growing beyond it.