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Let's celebrate Schneider Electric Foundation 25th anniversary

Schneider Electric Foundation in collaboration with Ashoka launched “Youth Innovation For A Sustainable Future” call for projects, which aspires to select the most impactful and innovative 25 youth projects across the world in terms of professional integration, entrepreneurship, and just transition.

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Bridging progress and sustainability for all

We’re on a mission to make a difference, one community at a time. Since 1956, the Schneider Electric™ North America Foundation has supported nonprofits across the continent that align with our values, creating a better world for the next generation.

The Foundation aids more than 1,700 nonprofits each year, focusing its efforts on four key areas:

Energy equity
STEM education
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and well-being
Disaster relief

1 million

individuals trained in energy

50,000

volunteering days across the world

Stay safe, be well

Everyone deserves a safe, secure environment. Schneider actively partners with Habitat for Humanity and the American Red Cross, among other organizations, to support this goal. In 2020, we celebrated a 20-year partnership with Habitat. Since the beginning, Schneider has donated more than $50 million to the organization.

Supporting STEM

As technology continues to rapidly evolve, it’s important for younger generations to have early exposure and education around STEM subjects. Schneider partners with FIRST Robotics, TryEngineering, and more to prepare the innovators of the future.

TryEngineering Together e-mentoring program

Championing DEI initiatives

One of Schneider’s leading values is to “embrace different.” We support diversity, equity, and inclusion-focused organizations including the National Society of Black Engineers, Society of Women Engineers, and American Corporate Partners, which helps veterans transition to a civilian workforce.

Schneider employees champion organizations with important meaning to them, including the Special Olympics, National Down Syndrome Society, and more.

Energy for everyone

We believe that energy is a basic human right. Through partnerships with the Footprint Project and Grid Alternatives, we’re striving toward a goal to make clean energy affordable and available to everyone.

Our partnership with Habitat for Humanity is focused not only on providing homes for those in need but providing equitable energy resources within those homes.

Footprint Project

Employee-driven

The Foundation partners with organizations that are meaningful to our employees. We have programs to support their efforts, whether they donate time or financial resources:

Dollars for Doers provides $25 for every hour volunteered
The Matching Gift program provides a one-to-one match on each dollar donated
Newly hired employees receive $25 to donate to a nonprofit of their choice
Grants support employee events and board service

Four Habitat for Humanity volunteers working together

Some of the awesome achievements of the Schneider Electric North America Foundation in 2023:

$1.1M

donated by Schneider Electric employees

$6.9M

in cash and product donated by Schneider

18K+

hours volunteered

2.7K

employees engaged

1.5K

nonprofits supported

Foundation partnerships

Rallying for communities on Giving Tuesday

Clean innovation and solutions with Solar Impulse

Upgrading entrepreneurs’ facilities in Pakistan

Tomorrow rising emergency relief campaigns

Tomorrow Rising Lebanon

The Foundation created a donation campaign and helped the most affected people by restoring energy in houses.

Tomorrow Rising India

Schneider Electric India and Foundations set up a fundraising campaign to support the affected Indian communities.

Tomorrow Rising East Africa

Distributing food to families and young children in Kenya during the pandemic to provide access to nutritious meals.

Tomorrow Rising Myanmar

Schneider Electric Foundation enabled empowerment to local tailors for producing 50 thousand masks to be distributed across the country.

More about what we do for sustainability

Sustainability reports

Access Schneider Sustainability impact results and reports, all in one place.

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Schneider Sustainability Impact

All commitments to sustainability from us.

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Our commitment to all generations

More about our initiatives supporting and enabling people to thrive and connect across generations.

How does Schneider Electric Foundation for sustainable development focus on bridging progress and sustainability?

Schneider Electric Foundation for sustainable development aims to deploy sustainability impact initiatives and UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to enable and empower individuals and communities to attain Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) leadership, improved quality of life, and an inclusive work environment. As the world’s most sustainable and inclusive Impact company, Schneider Electric is committed to sustainable business development and corporate citizenship goals by bridging progress and sustainability through equitable quality education and training for all. Discover Schneider Electric Foundation Commitments that contribute to the SDGs through long-term vocational training and volunteering efforts worldwide, protecting vulnerable and exposed populations, helping them kickstart the education system and professional training for the disadvantaged youth. Discover our VolunteerIn platform that mobilizes active volunteering and participation in civic engagement, strengthening social inclusion and deepening solidarity with initiatives taken up by local partners’ networks. Our Foundation for sustainable development supports local partners’ initiatives towards training and entrepreneurship in the electricity sector to derive economic and social development through access to energy and promote a fair society to encourage future generations. Explore Schneider Electric Foundation created Tomorrow Rising emergency relief campaigns to raise funds for disaster and pandemic relief, energy restoration, and empowerment of the local communities. Schneider Electric Foundation for sustainable development offers training and entrepreneurship program for people to acquire skills, find work or become entrepreneurs in the energy sector. It also provides financial support to change the lives and the direction of communities worldwide, contributing to the development of new energy solutions that are safe, reliable, and sustainable.