Shell Foundation

Founded in 2000, Shell Foundation is a charity based in London, United Kingdom working on environment & climate, poverty & hunger, gender equality.

Shell Foundation is an independent registered charity based in London. It works to create and scale clean energy solutions that raise incomes while lowering emissions for low-income people, including smallholder farmers, transporters and micro-entrepreneurs, in Africa and Asia. It supports innovation, co-invests in and partners with energy companies and ecosystem organisations, and aims to enable tens of millions of people to raise their incomes while lowering emissions by 2032. The foundation applies a gender-intentional approach across its work. It was launched in 2000 with an endowment from Shell and has since operated as a venture philanthropy organisation, with a shift from a traditional charity model to an enterprise-based model.