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in support of the Global Commission to End Energy Poverty to forge an actionable consensus among leading investors, utilities, and policy-makers that lays out a viable pathway for providing electricity services to under-served homes and businesses more quickly and more cost-effectively

in support of an effort to help women living in Sierra Leone’s mini-grid locations to launch profitable and sustainable energy-enabled businesses

in support of producing an educational, globally distributed docuseries that explores the issues of energy, poverty, sustainability and development, and advances solutions that can drive economic development in a more equitable, climate-smart way

for use by its Climate Emergency Collaboration Group toward the costs of an effort to pool and administer philanthropic funds to procure technical support for developing countries to accelerate their transition to clean energy

in support of developing a report and action plan for a global, 21st-century Marshall Plan that will enable a sustainable, equitable, and green recovery from the COVID-19 crisis

to be applied as follows (together, the “Project”): (i) $100,000 towards the cost of structuring, launching and managing the Energy Access Relief Facility (the “Facility”) that will issue term-loans to Energy Access Companies who provide energy access services to poor and vulnerable populations and whose operations have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic (“Eligible Companies”) as described in the Proposal; and (ii) $1.4 million for loan capital (the “Loan Capital Amount”) to be issued to Eligible Companies prior to the closing of the Facility (the “Warehoused Loans”) as described in the Proposal. The Warehoused Loans or any remaining Loan Capital Amount shall be converted into junior notes to be issued under the Facility (“Junior Notes”) for a term of no more than four (4) years. (iii) If the Facility closes, then the Grantee may use any amounts repaid under the Junior Notes upon termination of the Facility and written notice to the Foundation to either: a. issue additional term-loans to similar Eligible Companies for another four (4) year term (the “Additional Loans”); and/or b. provide technical assistance to similar Eligible Companies (the “Technical Assistance”).

in support of expanding its Smart Power Myanmar to incubate, implement and unlock public-private capital for mini grid projects and last-mile connections in Myanmar

in support of building national coalitions in 2-3 countries to advance healthcare electrification with decentralized renewable energy, and in general support of its mission to advance renewable, decentralized electrification solutions by means of the fastest, most cost-effective and sustainable approach to universal energy access

in support of strengthening its organizational capacity and sustainability and its efforts to help cities in its global network maintain and recover critical function in the face of shocks and stresses

in support of galvanizing global momentum and action that will dramatically accelerate the rate of last-mile electrification that will support the livelihoods and economic mobility of low income households and communities