We examine how organizational actors use global legal, humanitarian, and development discourses in their work supporting educational services for refugees to better understand how the transfer of ideas and norms emanating within global organizations affects educational programming for refugees. We ask: (1) To what extent do organizations reference global legal, humanitarian, and development documents in their work? And, (2) How do linkages with United Nations (UN) organizations (namely UNHCR, UNESCO, and UNICEF) influence organizations' usage of global documents? We find that different organizations draw on global discourses depending on their level of embeddedness in global society and that diverse types of relationships with UN agencies--financial and normative--mediate the extent to which they reference global policy documents.