Global Exchange is an international human rights organization dedicated to promoting political, social and environmental justice globally. Since our founding in 1988, we have been working to increase global awareness among the U.S. public while building partnerships around the world.

By providing critical facts and analysis of how the global economy works and how we can act to change it, Global Exchange also hopes to strengthen the growing grassroots movement for ending corporate rule and furthering economic democratization.

Goals

• to educate the U.S. public about critical global issues
• to promote respect for the rights outlined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• to encourage both the U.S. government and private institutions to support policies that promote democratic and sustainable development
• to link people in our own country and people in the global South who are working for political, social and environmental justice

Our Vision

We envision a people centered globalization that values the rights of workers and the health of the planet; that prioritizes international collaboration as central to ensuring peace; and that aims to create a local, green economy designed to embrace the diversity of our communities.

In a world where the economics of quantity fuels corporate power and political greed, the elite are reaping profits while working people and the planet are left to pay the price. In response to the global degradation caused by this system of elite globalization, Global Exchange envisions an alternative economics of quality centered upon protecting international human rights to ensure that the cost of globalization does not come at the expense of us all.

Our Mission

As an education and action resource center, we advance our vision by working to ensure our members and constituents are empowered locally and connected globally to create a just and sustainable world.

Global Exchange takes a holistic approach to creating change. With 20 years working for international human rights, we realize that in order to advance social, environmental and economic justice we must transform the global economy from profit centered to people centered, from currency to community.

To support Global Exchange CLICK HERE or contact Kristin Jeffries in Global Exchange's Development Department at (415) 255-7296 or by e-mail at kristin [at] globalexchange.org