Schneider Electric North America Foundation
Discover the second season of Tomorrow Rising, the Foundation’s web series showcasing real stories of young individuals: Azael from Mexico, Christine from Egypt, Farha from France, Roswita from Indonesia, and Shirley from Peru.
Get inspired with us as we discover their journeys of resilience, growth, and the pursuit of their dreams.
To celebrate its 25th anniversary, the Foundation, in collaboration with Ashoka, has launched the “Youth Innovation for a Sustainable Future” call for projects, selecting 25 social entrepreneurs across the world.
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
- Inclusion & Care
- Disaster relief
Foundation commitments 2025
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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.
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.
One of Schneider’s IMPACT values is “Inclusion.” We support 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.
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.
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
Some of the awesome achievements of the Schneider Electric North America Foundation in 2023:
- $1.2M
donated by Schneider Electric employees
- $9.3M
in cash and product donated by Schneider
- 27,000
hours volunteered
- 3,500
employees engaged
- 1.7K
nonprofits supported
Foundation partnerships
- Clean innovation and solutions with Solar Impulse
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Clean innovation and solutions with Solar Impulse
Clean innovation and solutions with Solar Impulse Upgrading entrepreneurs’ facilities in Pakistan -
Upgrading entrepreneurs’ facilities in Pakistan
Upgrading entrepreneurs’ facilities in Pakistan
See how we’re helping organizations across the globe
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.
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More about what we do for sustainability
More about what we do for 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.