Solar Energy Partners
Solar Energy Partners
The Honnold Foundation is proud to partner with community-based organizations all over the world who are using solar energy to improve lives and reduce environmental impact. We’re committed to funding projects and organizations with strong ties to the communities they serve, and have supported work as broad ranging as solar lantern distribution in Ethiopia, and grid-tied residential solar in Sacramento.
Although our partners work in diverse ways, they’re united by a common vision— a better, brighter world for all of us. We believe that energy should be clean, easy to access, and affordable, and all over the world, our partners are making that vision a reality.
Solar array and education for a tuition-free school for girls in Liberia.
Fighting climate change and increasing disaster preparedness in the Pacific Islands.
Installing a large solar array and renewable energy education at Central America’s first school for indigenous girls.
Clean energy and irrigation technologies to promote sustainable livelihoods in the Indian Himalaya.
Displacing rural diesel consumption in Myanmar with a community-owned solar mini-grid.
Creating solar-powered food systems and sustainable production models for families across Lake Nicaragua.
Supporting the self-determined socio-economic development of the Igorot through solar-powered agriculture.
Driving social and environmental justice in Memphis, Tennessee.
Solar energy for BIPOC led organizations in the most polluted regions of the United States.
Reaching grassroots groups around the world working to implement solar energy projects in their communities.
Improving economic opportunity and quality of life in remote Amazonian communities around Ilha das Cinzas.
Pay-as-you-go solar for rural farmers, using upcycled electronic waste and non-cash payments.
Community solar for the Solomon Islands to increase disaster resilience and economic opportunity.
Developing Puerto Rico’s first cooperatively managed, community owned solar microgrid.
Powering Detroit’s first community land trust with solar energy to lower families’ energy bills and increase community resilience.
Solar lamp distribution to families in remote off-grid African regions utilizing a unique community-led social enterprise.
A pay-as-you-go financing model bringing solar light to Ethiopia.
Solar energy for remote indigenous communities fighting to protect their ancestral ways of life alongside some of the most biodiverse rainforests on the planet.
Off-grid solar installations and workforce development on the Navajo and Hopi Nations.
Scaling a network of solar-powered canoes to transform transportation across the Amazon.
Building a solar-powered water pump and energy grid in collaboration with the Seri Indian community of Desemboque.
Supporting 40 Native Nations across the U.S. with community-driven solar installations, hands-on job training, and energy savings.
Solar energy for fifteen rural Ugandan hospitals that otherwise lack electricity.
Providing healthcare to the isolated floating villages of Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia, using solar powered clinic boats.