All On recognizes that in a post-Covid environment whereby poor communities, small businesses, and social sector organizations continue to suffer the brunt of the economic downturn, there is a need to show up as good corporate citizens to further demonstrate that at times like these, our mission to accelerate the closing of the energy access gap, thus providing energy to underserved and unserved communities in Nigeria, is even more critical in alleviating poverty.
This initiative builds on the success of All On’s Covid Solar Relief Fund that helped support some of our investee businesses by providing business opportunities while contributing to the national Covid relief effort. Funds will be provided to investees in good standing to provide solar power to non-profit facilities and/or organisations providing key social services free of charge in communities around the country.
All On staff and community/board members/Shell staff will identify proposed projects and commit 25 per cent initial seed funding with the remaining cost carried by All On up to a maximum of ₦10 million per project. All projects will be executed by appropriate investee companies in good standing and will be relatively small in scale—the average size of each project is expected to range between ₦3 million – ₦5 million.
This initiative would further highlight the capabilities of solar as a legitimate energy alternative in social sector organisations while providing business opportunities to investees. Additional objectives include:
1. Provides a charitable contribution to social sector organizations in needy communities
2. Raises sector awareness and potential in needy communities
3. Presents an opportunity for active participation in projects that contribute to the energy transition in needy communities.
The following are guidelines to avoid potential conflicts of interest in selecting beneficiary projects:
• Recipient organizations must not be government-owned, operated or sponsored.
• Beneficiary facilities must be Nigerian registered social sector organisations.
• Beneficiary facilities cannot be homes or facilities owned or operated by any All On staff/grantee/investee community member/Shell staff or contractor/Board member or All On investee businesses.
• Beneficiary facilities cannot have any financial affiliation with sponsors, i.e. sponsors and family members cannot be in a position to gain financially from the facilities.
• No facility can benefit from the initiative more than once a year.
• Beneficiary facilities will not be awarded any payments towards this activity.
• Projects in the Niger Delta will be prioritized.
• Projects for social sector organizations that are women led and/ or primarily support women will be prioritized.
• Beneficiary facilities must demonstrate clearly identifiable benefits to their supporting communities that can be third-party verified.
Applications will be sent to the all-on-communications@all-on.com email address for review and process by an All On Committee.