Brazilian esports organisation FURIA has debuted its new jersey featuring Instituto Garra branding on the left sleeve during its opening match at the IEM Cologne Major in Germany on 11 June 2026.

Established in 2025, Instituto Garra serves as the central philanthropic arm of FURIA and its core leadership group. Rather than functioning as a direct front-line charity, the fund operates an ecosystem accelerator model that coordinates capital deployment, management training, and network resources to scale established local non-governmental organisations in Brazil.

The activation utilises the club’s high-visibility Counter-Strike 2 (CS2) platform to provide global exposure for its primary social impact division.

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The fund’s executive board combines leadership from across the competitive gaming, entrepreneurship, and third-sector industries, featuring FURIA Co-CEO André Akkari, Brazilian Series of Poker (BSOP) CEO Rafael Moraes, Stars Group Executive Edmilson Rosa, and social impact specialist Beatriz Martins. According to the oganisation, the initiative has expanded its operational footprint to support more than 20 distinct domestic organisations, reaching approximately 30,000 individuals in vulnerable territories.

Speaking to The Esports Radar, Martins, who is a Co-founder of Instituto Garra, detailed how the fund’s operational framework with FURIA moves past symbolic marketing into trackable governance. “We strengthen organisations and social leaders by combining three things: capital, management, and network,” Martins stated, clarifying that the ultimate objective is “autonomy, not dependency on donations.”

Martins also approached the strategic angle for the jersey activation: “The exposure also serves strategically to attract new partners and social investors, because our model depends on an ecosystem. The more serious partners join the initiative, the more organisations we can accelerate. And it strengthens the institutional recognition of a thesis that is still new in Brazil: that of social investment with method, transparency, and public accountability, not one-off charity.”

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Martins noted the deployment sends a distinct institutional message: “The Garra logo on FURIA’s sleeve does not represent a brand; it represents the supported organisations across Brazil and the people reached.”

“Placing a social cause on the world’s biggest Counter-Strike stage sends a message: social impact is not a background issue, it is a protagonist. For the young person from the periphery who is impacted by our projects, seeing the flag that speaks about them stamped on the same uniform as the idols they follow has huge symbolic weight. It says that their place is also there, in the centre, not on the margin. And, for the Institute, it is proof that it is possible to unite the universe of esports, entrepreneurship, and the third sector around the same purpose,” Martins added.

The decision to allocate a prominent piece of apparel real estate to a non-commercial entity comes despite FURIA maintaining a highly active, multi-brand commercial portfolio. The club currently holds high-tier sponsorships with 11 market-leading brands, including Adidas, Pokerstars, Hellmann’s, Piracanjuba ProForce, BetBoom, TCL, Lenovo Legion, BIS chocolate, Logitech, Oakley, and Red Bull. Pedro Lopes, Head of Commercial at FURIA, noted that dedicating a space typically preserved for corporate monetisation demonstrates a shared social commitment across the club’s corporate partner roster.

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