A proven collaboration with the garment industry and financial sector to improve financial inclusion and resilience for workers, especially women, and deliver shared economic value.
Who We Are and What We Do
RISE is a global collaboration of workers, industry and policy makers accelerating equality and opportunity for low-income workers in garment, footwear and home textile supply chains. Together we are driving positive impacts for workers and the businesses they sustain.
Collaboration is the fuel that drives progress for workers and businesses
Working with brands, buyers, suppliers, engaging with the unions, other worker representatives, trade associations, women’s movements, local civil society and policy makers – at RISE it is essential for us to always be guided by the needs and priorities of women workers.
Resilient businesses are built by a thriving workforce
Respect
A comprehensive approach to increasing safety at work and preventing and remediating violence and harassment in the world of work
Foundations
A workplace development program to increase agency and advance workers’ rights.
Digital
An app-based program which improves digital literacy and provides tools to improve health, financial, relationship and stress management.
Knowledge shared is impact multiplied
Explore Insights into how we achieve more equal and resilient workplaces.
How clean water access shapes the textile industry
Macy’s is working with WWF and RISE to address heat stress, basin health, clean water access, and worker health and safety in textile factories.
Sustaining Progress: Our 2025 Annual Report
Together, we made important strides in 2025. Three years in, RISE has supported over one million workers through our workplace programs.
Weaving Fairness: How Women Workers Hold the Key to Climate Resilience in the Garment, Footwear, and Textile Sectors
Climate change is already hitting the garment, footwear, and textiles sectors hard. Its impacts are rapidly compounding for both workers and businesses in countries like Bangladesh and Cambodia.
We bring the world together for workers and industry
Attend a RISE event to meet others actively looking to the future of supply chain workforce.
Members Only | Launch of the toolkit for action and remediation "Addressing gender-based violence and harassment in garment, footwear and textile supply chains"
We are pleased to invite RISE members to a webinar launching the toolkit for action and remediation, Addressing gender-based violence and harassment in garment, footwear and textile supply chains.
Connect with RISE during London Climate Action Week
Connect with RISE during London Climate Action Week
Connect with RISE during UNGA and Climate Week NYC
Connect with RISE during UNGA and Climate Week NYC
More resilient, more sustainable, more equal
RISE to the future of the supply chain workforce.