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.
Championing a trust-based funding model that integrates unrestricted grants, capacity building, and storytelling, the Honnold Foundation supports creative solar energy solutions that build equity, increase climate resilience, and support communities’ right to self-determination.
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 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.
Solar installation for a BIPOC owned permaculture farm & education center.
Solar energy and job opportunities for women in Huella del Bosque Medolo, Puerto Rico.
Agrivoltaics guided by traditional Native agricultural practices to support economic development and Indigenous leadership in solar energy across New Mexico.
Solar for the Anishinaabe people of the Red Lake Tribal Nation.
Strengthening the Buffalo program for the Northern Cheyenne and creating one of the few tribally owned microgrids in the US.
Providing affordable energy access and job training for Native Hawaiians through a community-owned nanogrid.
Installing rooftop solar on a community center offering job training and other services to Charleston’s predominately Black west side.
Supporting the transition of the Standing Rock Nation’s community center to solar, and promoting Indigenous energy sovereignty.
Creating a network of solar-powered restaurants to build storm resilience in New Orleans.
Solar for a regenerative, closed-loop organic waste processing operation in Brooklyn, NY that offers workforce training and employment for low-income youth in the community.
Solar-powered flower farms, producing jobs, revitalizing vacant land, and providing sustainable agriculture education for inner-city Chicago.
Off-grid solar installations and workforce development on the Navajo and Hopi Nations.
Driving social and environmental justice in Memphis, Tennessee.
Solar energy for BIPOC led organizations in the most polluted regions of the United States.
Small grants program for nonprofits serving Utah and Nevada.
Reaching grassroots groups around the world working to implement solar energy projects in their communities.
A West Virginia community hub uses solar to demonstrate a future beyond coal in Appalachia.
Supporting 40 Native Nations across the U.S. with community-driven solar installations, hands-on job training, and energy savings.
Providing integrated clean energy solutions for communities impacted by disaster and pollution.
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 energy access, education, and jobs for Colombian Indigenous communities.
Solar power for a world-class educational campus for at-risk girls and young women in the Dominican Republic.
An Indigenous community recuperates and regenerates ancestral territory in Colombia’s Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.
Transitioning agricultural processing equipment to solar to improve womens’ economic opportunities.
Increasing access to electricity and clean water for riverbank families and promoting the use of renewable energy in rural areas across the Brazilian Amazon.
Increasing access to electricity and promoting economic development for some of the most remote communities in the Triunfo Cristal Páez Indigenous reservation.
Expanding communication across four communities in the northern Peruvian Amazon via solar-powered radio access.
First-time access to electricity for Haitian-Dominicans working on sugar plantations in the Dominican Republic.
Creating reliable access to water and electricity for the drought-stricken Zenú Indigenous community.
Solar energy and internet access for an indigenous school and community center.
Solar installation for 40 families in an indigenous community in the Brazilian Amazon.
Solar-powered aguaje fruit processing center, technician workforce development, and sustainable forest management training for a rural Indigenous community in the Amazon.
Installing solar home systems and providing technical training and capacity building for remote Indigenous Shuar communities in the Amazon.
Empowering the regional expansion of Kara Solar’s solar-powered boats and community centers in the Peruvian Amazon.
Solar energy for remote indigenous communities fighting to protect their ancestral ways of life alongside some of the most biodiverse rainforests on the planet.
Scaling a network of solar-powered canoes to transform transportation across the Amazon.
Improving economic opportunity and quality of life in remote Amazonian communities around Ilha das Cinzas.
Solar Powered community training center & education for Venezuelan Indigenous communities.
Energy access and sustainable living to protect vital mangrove ecosystems in Papaturro, Guatemala.
Solarizing honey production, creating workforce development opportunities, and conserving mangrove forests alongside a Guatemalan fishing community.
Empowering women in rural communities of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula through hands-on training in solar system installation and maintenance.
Increasing access to reliable and affordable energy for two schools and Mayan communities located alongside Lake Atitlán.
Reliable, clean power for a vocational training program, and solar for a local preschool and elementary school serving a Mayan Indigenous community on the shore of Lake Atitlán.
Promoting the use of traditional agricultural techniques for Mayan youth and preserving cultural knowledge in the Yucatán.
Solar to power satellite community internet for Indigenous women in rural Mexico
Using solar to support the communities surrounding Guatemala City's municipal garbage dump, empowering economic self-determination, and safer and healthier lives.
Rooftop solar and STEM learning opportunities for a school for indigenous girls in Chajul, Guatemala.
Solar for a remote Honduran community, helping 200 families access clean, reliable energy for the first time.
Supporting solar systems, workforce development, and technical training programs for 100 South American Indigenous communities.
Creating solar-powered food systems and sustainable production models for families across Lake Nicaragua.
Installing a large solar array and renewable energy education at Central America’s first school for indigenous girls.
Building a solar-powered water pump and energy grid in collaboration with the Seri Indian community of Desemboque.
Replacing wood-burning stoves with solar energy, building economic opportunity, and protecting mangrove ecosystems in Aceh, Indonesia.
Solar power to 50 Dalit households, 5 girls’ higher secondary schools, and 5 primary health centers in Vadipatti Taluk, India.
Democratizing power by solarizing education, livelihoods, and households in Negrosanon communities.
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.
Supporting the self-determined socio-economic development of the Igorot through solar-powered agriculture.
Providing healthcare to the isolated floating villages of Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia, using solar powered clinic boats.
Pay-as-you-go solar for rural farmers, using upcycled electronic waste and non-cash payments.
The Honnold Foundation has no current or past projects in this region. If you are from this region and interested in bringing solar to your community, learn more on how to become a partner.
Installing solar systems to power 3 recycling centers and develop income-generating opportunities for local residents in the remote Anambas Islands.
Building solar-powered internet connectivity for the social and ecological resilience of Indigenous communities in Vanuatu.
Solar home systems for 400 homes across seven villages for the first and only Indigenous-owned wildlife conservation reserve in Papua New Guinea.
Fighting climate change and increasing disaster preparedness in the Pacific Islands.
Community solar for the Solomon Islands to increase disaster resilience and economic opportunity.
Using the expertise of recently graduated female solar installers to increase access to energy across four rural communities in Madagascar.
Woman-led NGO expanding solar energy access in Madagascar, serving 300 households, powering women-led cooperatives, and training local youth in solar installation and maintenance.
Developing a community-owned, solar-powered internet hub, and supporting sustainable tourism practices for an indigenous South African community.
Solar array and education for a tuition-free school for girls in Liberia.
Solar energy for fifteen rural Ugandan hospitals that otherwise lack electricity.
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.