acciona.org is a social initiative of the company ACCIONA made up of nine non-profit organizations in Spain, Peru, Mexico, Panama, Chile, the Philippines, South Africa, the Dominican Republic, and Brazil. We are focused on providing, improving, and making affordable the access to basic services ─energy, water, and sanitation─ in contexts of human development, humanitarian action, and energy poverty.
We have been carrying out this work since 2008, when ACCIONA created its corporate foundation, a Spanish foundation that acts as the reference partner for the rest of the organizations. Initially, we focused on energy access under the name ACCIONA Microenergía, which in 2018 was changed to acciona.org, adopting the claim “The Energy & Water Foundation” to reflect the evolution of our activity, which had expanded to include water and sanitation.
Many persons are part of acciona.org to reach the planned goals working all together:
- The governing body, whose members participate in the direction and the institutional representation of acciona.org without remuneration in return,
- the management team and the rest of staff of acciona.org, who design, manage, implement and spread the planned actions,
- the volunteers, individuals who contribute unselfishly with their time, knowledge and resources to the acciona.org activity, and specially,
- the beneficiaries, who participate actively in the proposed actions.
In addition, we are present in partnerships and associations where we share our vision and mission with other development cooperation actors.
(*) Mr Joaquín Mollinedo had also been a member of the foundation's board of trustees previously ─between 2010 and 2012─.
We lean on unselfish people who put their knowledge and resources to our projects. The volunteers also are, as the 2030 Agenda for the Sustainable Development identifies them, essential actors to achieve the Global Goals
The participation of locals, especially those who benefit from our programmes and projects, is essential to the success of our initiatives and their resulting positive impact on health, education, economy, environment… as these persons explain by their own.