Corporate Social Responsibility
The IMF's corporate social responsibility program focuses on staff engagement in volunteering and disaster relief efforts, philanthropic initiatives, and environmental sustainability.
Environmental sustainability and philanthropic initiatives are at the core of the IMF's corporate social responsibility program.
Environmental Sustainability
The IMF is committed to integrating responsible practices into its operations, guided by its core values and strategic objectives. In 2025, the institution continued to take meaningful steps on environmental sustainability by streamlining processes and adopting practical measures that focused on efficiency, resource conservation, and operational resilience. Key achievements include the following:
Energy-Efficient Technologies and Processes. Use of energy-efficient lighting partially upgraded heating and cooling systems, and adjusted building operations outside core office hours helped largely offset the impact of increased building occupancy on electricity use.
Waste Reduction and Resources Preservation. By implementing a food waste Reduction program, the institution has conserved nearly 6 million gallons of water and prevented food waste equivalent to approximately 68,000 meals since 2018.
Procurement for Performance and Efficiency. Enhancements in procurement practices have aimed at identifying product and service efficiencies. For example, as part of a recent laptop refresh program, the institution selected equipment that consumes nearly one-third less energy than previous models.
Key Performance Indicators for Spring and Annual Meetings Impact. As part of International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 20121 certification, improved measurement methodologies and targets were established to better track sustainable practices and progress. The IMF was recertified for sustainable events in April 2025 which reaffirmed the institution’s commitment to mitigating the environmental impact of the meetings.
Leveraging Remote Meeting Technologies. Use of ever-improving remote meeting technologies is enabling more frequent and continuous interaction and engagement with IMF member country officials and other partners, while also helping reduce mission-related travel.
These and other initiatives are coordinated by the internal Environmental Sustainability Council, which promotes technological and process-based solutions aimed at responsible operational practices and efficiency. In all, the IMF reduced its impact on the environment in 2024, as shown in Figure 3.2.
Figure 3.2
Location-based historical GHG emissions for the IMF's physical operations
(calendar years 2010—24)
(TCO2e)
SCOPE 1: Emissions from diesel, gasoline, natural gas, propane, refrigerants, vehicles.
SCOPE 2: Emissions from electricity.
SCOPE 3: Emissions as a result of travel, shipping and courier activity, waste, water use, and employee commuting.
GHG = greenhouse gas. TCO2e = total carbon dioxide emissions.
Source: IMF, Corporate Services and Facilities Department.
IMF Giving Together Program
Giving Together, the IMF’s philanthropic program is supported by donations from employees and retirees and by corporate matching funds. It also encompasses grants, management donations and volunteering activities.
Last year there were multiple crises—including devastating earthquakes in Myanmar, Thailand, and Vanuatu and deadly floods in Argentina, Brazil, and East, West, and Central Africa. Continuing conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Sudan, Lebanon, Ukraine, and the West Bank and Gaza and Israel, and a rise in the cost of living have compounded the challenges faced by people around the world.
The IMF has responded to these challenges with tremendous support.. Donations from employees, management, and retirees, with IMF corporate matching, amounted to a grand total of $5.175 million in FY 2025.
Fall Giving Campaign—"Standing Together as One”
This year’s campaign focused on bringing peace and prosperity and supported aid to those in need through organizations focusing on hunger, healthcare, and natural disasters. The campaign raised $3,244,778 in donations and matching funds. A total of 61.2 percent of the staff participated in this year’s Giving Together campaign—2,437 staff members and 322 retirees contributed, demonstrating strong engagement and ongoing support for the campaign.
Humanitarian and Disaster Relief
The IMF’s Giving Together program organized 11 fundraisers to support humanitarian and disaster relief efforts, raising a total of $546,561.13 (including corporate match), for people in Argentina, Brazil, East Africa, Lebanon, Myanmar, Sudan, Thailand, Vanuatu, and West and Central Africa, as well as in countries affected by Typhoon Yagi in Southeast Asia. These contributions were channeled to international relief organizations providing critical aid and support to affected children and families on the ground in these countries.
Grants and Corporate Donations
The IMF has been a consistent supporter of community initiatives focused on economic resilience and independence in the Washington DC metropolitan area through partnerships and annual grants. In FY 2025, the Giving Together program awarded 33 grants and corporate donations to charitable organizations in the area amounting to $429,500.
Volunteering
Volunteering is an integral and in-demand part of the IMF’s Giving Together program. Volunteering events and initiatives, often led by staff members, took in partnership with charities throughout the year.
In September 2024, the IMF launched its first blood drive in partnership with American Red Cross which collected 25 units of blood plus two power red donations—enough to help save more than 80 lives. A follow- up blood drive took place in April 2025, with 52 staff volunteers, and 30 first-time donors, collecting 39 units of blood, contributing to about 120 lives saved.
In February 2025, in honor of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service, IMF management and staff participated in a volunteering event organized by the Giving Together program in partnership with Sixdegrees.org, a Northern Virginia–based nonprofit founded in 2007 by Golden Globe Winning actor, musician and philanthropist Kevin Bacon. More than 400 staff members volunteered their time packing hygiene kits for people in need in the Washington DC area through partners, including Miriam’s Kitchen, Community of Hope, Everybody Wins DC, Lasagna Love, Catholic Charities of DC, and the Mosaic Foundation.
Aside from Fund-wide volunteering events, the IMF’s management team and the Executive Board initiated their own volunteering activities in support of local communities in FY 2025 in partnership with local charities.
Annual Staff and Retiree Giving in Numbers
In FY 2025, IMF employees and retiree donations and corporate matching totaled $4,674,995. (Figure 3.3). This includes the fall Giving Campaign and year-round giving, as well as donations to humanitarian and disaster relief campaigns.
Figure 3.3
Employee and retiree donations and matching funds, FYs 2016–25
(millions of US dollars)
Source: IMF, Communications Department.
IMF Giving Together Year in Numbers FY 2025
Our Staff, Our Mission, Our Culture
The IMF recruits and promotes employees with the highest standards of technical competence, representing the broad spectrum of diverse member countries we serve, while fostering an enriching and inclusive work environment for its workforce. It prioritizes staff development by fostering a learning culture, with opportunities to deepen and broaden experiences across the range of the IMF’s work. It invests in modernizing processes and practices, harnessing new technologies ethically to maintain its role as an employer of choice and in service to its global membership. In January 2025, an IMF wide working group updated the Board on progress toward the 2025 benchmarks for staff representation, along with an analysis of key initiatives undertaken since 2021 and their preliminary recommendations for FY 2030. Management approved the working group’s recommendations to extend the current benchmarks to FY 2030.
