Organizations Filed Purposes:
Shift is the leading center of expertise on the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. Shift's global team facilitates dialogue, builds capacity and develops new approaches with companies, government, civil society organizations and international institutions to bring about a world in which business gets done with respect for people's fundamental welfare and dignity.
advisING and supportING governments, businesses, and their stakeholders on implementation of the U.N. Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and developing public guidance materials.
International Partnerships Program - Under this program, Shift works collaboratively with intergovernmental institutions, industry and sport associations and multistakeholder initiatives that support implementation of the Guiding Principles. We help these organizations to develop practical guidance on specific human rights topics, refine their existing standards and practices, or engage in dialogue with different stakeholder groups.
Business learning program - Through this program, Shift works with a select number of companies that we believe are serious about implementing the Guiding Principles. The purpose of this program is to foster leading practices by companies and to gain insights that inform all of our other activities with governments, civil society and international organizations to push for better practices more widely.
Education and Outreach - Through this program, we provide training to build participants' capacity to drive change within their organizations, we speak at and moderate high-level public events on business and human rights, and we share our learning and insights gained through out in-person engagements and collaborations via our online resource library.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
Caroline Rees | President & CEO | 40 | $245,317 |
Rachel Davis | Managing Drct. | 40 | $154,500 |
David Kovick | Senior Advisor | 40 | $116,134 |
David Vermijs | Senior Advisor | 40 | $103,211 |
Jen Maceyko | COO | 40 | $55,080 |
Paul Druckman | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
Prof John Ruggie | Board Chair | 1 | $0 |
Edward E Potter | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
Vania Maria Da Costa Borgerth | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
Dr Dewi Anwar - Term May 2020 | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
Catarina De Albuquerque | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
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public 990 form dataset) from:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/irs-form-990/202101319349303035_public.xml