Participating in the UN Global Compact helps you strengthen your company's credibility, align with globally recognized principles, and connect with a peer network focused on practical implementation. Through participation, you can strengthen risk management, identify new market opportunities, and build trust with investors, customers, employees, and other key stakeholders. By embedding sustainability into your core business strategy, you are better positioned to navigate disruption, respond to evolving expectations, and drive long-term, resilient growth.

Why participate?

• Gain exclusive access to Network USA’s programming, including accelerators, roundtables, resources, and thought leadership initiatives - Move beyond frameworks with tools, guidance, and structured engagement opportunities designed to help you put sustainability into practice.
• Engage a global peer Network - Connect with a global community of 20,000+ participants across industries and regions to exchange insights, benchmark approaches, and collaborate on shared challenges.
• Bridge global standards with local engagement, by accessing best-practice guidance and tools built on 20+ years of proven experience - Align with globally recognized principles while participating in US-based programming, peer exchange, and market-relevant discussions.
• Strengthen business credibility and alignment - Demonstrate your company’s commitment to responsible business practices in a way that resonates with investors, partners, customers, and employees.

What Participation Looks Like

Your participation is designed to support you at every stage of your sustainability journey to navigate complexity, strengthen credibility, and deliver on sustainability priorities. As a participant in the UN Global Compact through the US Network, Network USA, you gain:

• Access to a global community spanning across industries, functions, and value chains.
• US-focused engagement opportunities, structured peer exchange, and further learning opportunities.
• Tools, guidance, and resources to support implementation and internal alignment across your organization.
• A platform to connect and align global sustainability goals with local business priorities.

How Contributions Work

Participation in the UN Global Compact includes an annual financial contribution, which supports global and local engagement. For US-headquartered participants, Global Compact Network USA is your invoicing entity.

• Contributions are tiered by annual revenue.
• All contributions to Network USA (a US 501(c)3 incorporated in Delaware) are 100% tax-deductible as allowed by law.
• You will be invoiced on an annual basis. New participants are invoiced in the quarter they join (or the quarter designated in your UN Global Compact account for renewing participants).

For non-business participants, we do not currently require a financial contribution.

For questions related to your invoice, please contact our finance administrator at finance@globalcompactusa.org.