Proposed Future Membership in the GMI will be consist primarily of individual workplace compliance auditors. Because most of these auditors are working through service providers such as monitoring/auditing organizations or NGOs, as opposed to Brands or other organizations, GMI has focused heavily on inviting monitoring organizations to participate.  Ultimately, the individual auditors will be the members and service providers may be associate members or have some requirements themselves as employers of auditors.

Participating Service Providers are committed to the mission of GMI to move the CSR monitoring industry from an activity to a profession. This requires coordinated, professional self-regulation.  Self regulation through the GMI demands accountability, ownership and demonstrates the commitment, passion, and responsibility of the participating service providers and stakeholders to the advancement of the mission and purpose. 

The below Participating Service Providers have provided seed funding and staff time to support the establishment of GMI:

• Accordia
• BCI
• Bureau Veritas
• International Compliance Group (ICG)
• OneStep Vietnam
• Secura Ltd. (formerly known as Qualspec Asia Ltd. )
• Social Compliance Services Asia (SCSA)
• STR Responsible Sourcing (formerly known as CSCC)
• WIRE

GMI has invited over 24 CSR monitoring service providers to participate in the development of the GMI. GMI continues this outreach to potential monitors and invites others to provide suggestions for further outreach.

Continued Outreach:

• General Membership meetings were held throughout 2008 to gain consensus to move ahead to form the GMI.
• Discussions with Ruth Rosenbaum and Dan Viederman of the CREA/Verite Social Auditor Survey (2008 and 2009) were held to eliminate any concerns of competition or conflict.
• GMI met and continues to meet with the State Department and Department of Labor to discuss complimentary projects to the GMI objectives (2009-2010). 
• GMI has met and continues to meet with members and directors of FFC, GSCP, BSCI, and EICC to discuss and track their complimentary pursuits to the GMI objectives.
• GMI has met with and continues outreach to the China Compliance Professional Association (CCPA), Better Work, and Intertek (re: ITS’ Compliance Professional Initiative (CPI)) in order to seek out a coordinated effort for these potentially competing programs.
• GMI conducts multiple informal meetings with monitoring organizations and individuals to encourage further involvement and build momentum.

 For further information on becoming a Participating Service Provider, please write to admin@globalmonitoringinstitute.org.