Social Fingerprint

Every company has a Social Fingerprint®—a unique mark that shows the world how they do business.

Measure and improve

Based on the philosophy “you can’t improve what you don’t measure,” Social Fingerprint measures and maps a path to improve on social performance—a company’s preparedness to manage a socially responsible workplace or supply chain.

Get Started in Your Company

Start using Social Fingerprint to measure and improve your company or supply chain’s social performance today.

How Our Clients Use Social Fingerprint

Social Fingerprint is global, flexible, cross-industry, code agnostic, and applicable for companies of any size.

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Brand-Level

Measure and improve your company’s social performance and supply chain management.

Licensee-Level

Encourage supply chain self-ownership, assess risk, and improve performance for potential and existing licensees.

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Supplier-Level

Build capacity, establish dialogue, assess risk and provide practical tools necessary for critical management systems.

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System-wide

Build ownership with internal stakeholders, vendors, licensees, and suppliers and emphasize a management-systems approach.

Social Fingerprint Rating System

Social Fingerprint leverages SAI’s experience from creating the SA8000® Standard for decent work, breaking down the management systems approach to offer companies targeted steps toward improvement.

Based on SAI’s experience over more than 20 years, Social Fingerprint helps companies implement management systems in a credible, pragmatic, and cost-effective way. The Social Fingerprint ratings system helps companies go beyond code violations to evaluate the processes that are essential to high-level social performance.

Our Clients Have Included…

“In partnering with the global team at Social Accountability International, Cole Haan has been able to re-engineer its approach to social performance and compliance in the supply chain with confidence and expert guidance. Not only does SAI serve as an educational partner for the Cole Haan Corporate Responsibility and Leadership teams, but also as an extended network for thought-leadership and on-the-ground capability building. With a small but tenacious team at Cole Haan, SAI plays a critical role in our brand accountability and continuous improvement journey through the use of their Social Fingerprint tool as a means to fold all stakeholders into the co-creation process, as well as being consistent and significant members of our extended team. I cannot imagine this important work without them!”

Ashley Davis

Cole Haan
Director, Global Corporate Responsibility

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