Sustainability Partnerships
We work with governments, NGOs and industry groups to create change.
Better Work
Better Work is a collaboration between the United Nation’s International Labour Organization and the International Finance Corporation. Our partnership with Better Work aims to improve worker management cooperation, working conditions and social dialogue, helping workers understand their rights and gaining the skills needed to realize them.
Cascale
NIKE, Inc. is a founding member of Cascale (formerly known as the Sustainable Apparel Coalition), an industry-wide group of 300+ leading apparel and footwear brands, retailers, suppliers, academics and NGOs working to reduce the environmental impacts of apparel and footwear products. We have worked with Cascale since 2009 to create an industry approach to the environmental footprinting of footwear and apparel products.
Year joined: 2009
Ceres
Ceres is a sustainability nonprofit organization working with the most influential investors and companies to build leadership and drive solutions throughout the economy. Through powerful networks and advocacy, Ceres tackles the world’s biggest sustainability challenges, including climate change, water scarcity and pollution, and human rights abuses.
Fair Labor Association
Formed in 1999, the Fair Labor Association (FLA) is a collaborative effort of socially responsible companies, colleges and universities, and civil society organizations to improve working conditions in factories around the world. NIKE, Inc.'s compliance program is accredited by the FLA.
Year joined: 1999
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Leather Working Group
The Leather Working Group is an organization that rates tanneries based on environmental standards for leather processing. Among the criteria the group uses for assessment are water consumption, waste management and the transparency of effluent treatment, with tanneries graded on a medal-rating scale.
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Global Fashion Agenda
Global Fashion Agenda (GFA) is a leading forum for industry collaboration and public-private cooperation on sustainability in the fashion industry. It focuses on advancing circular systems, climate action and fair working conditions.
Social Labor Convergence Program
The Social Labor Convergence Program is a pioneering initiative that seeks to develop a simple, unified and effective industry-wide way to assess labor, health and safety conditions in factories. It has the goal of replacing current proprietary audit tools used by individual companies.
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Textile Exchange
Textile Exchange is a non-profit organization committed to the responsible expansion of textile sustainability across the global textile value chain.
World Business Council on Sustainable Development
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is a global network of 250+ leading companies driving sustainability as a key driver of competitiveness. WBCSD provides a forum for member companies, who represent all business sectors and continents, to share best practices on sustainable development issues and to develop innovative tools that change the status quo.