Question 1

What does SELCO Foundation do?

Accepted Answer

Sustainable energy practitioners have long noticed energy access affects rural and urban populations’ livelihood, generation capacity, education attendance, health outcomes and overall quality of life.  In response, SELCO India (for profit, social enterprise) created SELCO Foundation on 5th October, 2010 as a public charitable trust, with the mission to:
1. Systematically identify diverse needs of underserved communities, understand and define the role of
sustainability and energy in these communities.
2. Create and support innovative and sustainable solutions that positively impact well-being, education and livelihoods and work towards the alleviation of poverty.
3. Foster ecosystem development in the social sector through holistic thought processes in technology, finance, entrepreneurship and policy.

SELCO Foundation envisions a socially sustainable society: we seek to create avenues for asset building, enhancement in quality of life and wealth creation that will uplift deprived sections of society through sustainable development solutions. It uses soft funding and flexible capital to develop robust and field-proven technological and financial models in the field of energy and sustainability. It aims to generate public awareness about these models, while also building the ecosystem for the creation and delivery of such solutions. The foundation supports replication and utilization of these models in other deprived regions of India and the world, thereby achieving greater leverage on resources.

Question 2

What technology does SELCO Foundation use?

Accepted Answer

Warmrank detected 34 technologies on selcofoundation.org, including Advanced Custom Fields, Bootstrap, Contact Form 7, EWWW Image Optimizer, FitVids.JS, Font Awesome, GoDaddy, Google Analytics.

Question 3

How many employees does SELCO Foundation have?

Accepted Answer

SELCO Foundation has around 332 employees on LinkedIn.

Question 4

Where is SELCO Foundation headquartered?

Accepted Answer

SELCO Foundation is headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka.

Question 5

When was SELCO Foundation founded?

Accepted Answer

SELCO Foundation was founded in 2010.

Company	Industry	Employees	Founded	Headquarters
SELCO Foundation selcofoundation.org	Non-profit Organizations	332	2010	Bengaluru, Karnataka
TED Conferences ted.com	Non-profit Organizations	16,129	-	New York, NY
UNICEF unicef.org	Non-profit Organizations	49,147	1946	New York, New York
World Economic Forum weforum.org	Non-profit Organizations	5,649	-	Cologny, Geneva
The Female Lead thefemalelead.com	Non-profit Organizations	354	-	London, England
World Action Careers campuslifestyle.org	Non-profit Organizations	438	-	harare, Mashonaland Central
World Food Programme wfp.org	Non-profit Organizations	22,572	-	Roma, RM
FAO fao.org	Non-profit Organizations	20,798	1945	Rome, Lazio
Save the Children International savethechildren.net	Non-profit Organizations	17,378	1919	London, England
Gates Foundation gatesfoundation.org	Non-profit Organizations	4,204	-	Seattle, WA
International Committee of the Red Cross - ICRC icrc.org	Non-profit Organizations	13,759	1863	Geneva, Geneva

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