Funding Partners
The IKEA Foundation (Stichting IKEA Foundation), a founding partner of the We Mean Business Coalition, works to create a better everyday life for the many people. As the philanthropic arm of INGKA Foundation, the owner of the Ingka Group of companies, IKEA Foundation focuses on improving the lives of vulnerable children by enabling their families to create sustainable livelihoods, and to fight and cope with climate change.
Learn more at www.ikeafoundation.org or on www.facebook.com/IKEAfoundation
Amazon Founded in 1994 with the mission to be the Earth’s most customer-centric company, Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. As the co-founder and first signatory of The Climate Pledge – a commitment to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2040 – Amazon is also committed to building a sustainable business for its customers and the planet. Learn more at sustainability.aboutamazon.com and theclimatepledge.com.
About the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation: The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation is a nonpartisan, private charitable foundation that advances ideas and supports institutions to promote a better world. For more than 50 years, it has supported efforts to advance education for all, preserve the environment, improve lives and livelihoods in developing countries, promote women’s health and economic well-being, support vibrant performing arts, strengthen Bay Area communities and make the philanthropy sector more effective. On the web at www.hewlett.org.
About the High Tide Foundation: The mission of High Tide Foundation is to have a significant, measurable impact on climate change through the monitoring, mitigation, and regulation of greenhouse gas emissions. They intend for their funding to be catalytic; it must make a genuine contribution to the movement. They partner with a wide variety of actors to make change, including non-profits, foundations, philanthropists, companies, universities, and government.
They intend for our funding to have a genuine impact on the future by working to keep the global temperature rise to a maximum of 1.5 degrees Celsius.
About Meta: Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology.
- Science-based. Guided by climate science, we focus on the root causes of the climate crisis, which originate in our cultural, social, political, and economic systems.
- Collaborative. Meaningful and trusting relationships with a multitude of partners is a prerequisite for real impact. We always show up in partner-mode with an ambition to create powerful coalitions for change.
- Flexible. In a time of polycrisis, the context for our work constantly changes. Our approach is flexible, adaptive, and explorative, and we are constantly looking for synergies, gaps, and opportunities – also when they come with a risk of not being successful.
About CIFF: CIFF is an independent philanthropic organisation, working with a range of partners seeking to transform the lives of children and adolescents. Their programmes are designed to support bold ideas to solve seemingly intractable problems.
About SED Fund: The Sustainability, Equity and Diversity Fund supports new and innovative programmes that take a solutions-oriented approach towards climate action by aligning with the Sustainable Development Goals. They do this through a venture philanthropy model, providing seed and scale up funding to organisations or programmes across their life cycle and continuing to support them in their growth and scale-up journey.