With your help, we're accelerating the transition to solar energy across the Global South.
Our community of 0% interest investors helped finance this solar project on a Tea Plantation Processing Site in Tamil Nadu, India.
Our team
We're a small team on a mission to build solar where it does the most good.
Cofounders
Lassor Feasley
Cofounder & CEO
Lassor is an product designer & manager. He previously founded Legends Solar, a US solar crowdfunding startup that helped inspire Renewables.org.
Premal Shah
Cofounder & Chair
A pioneer of tech enabled social entrepreneurship, Premal cofounded the microfinance nonprofit Kiva.org. His work has helped millions of people direct billions of dollars towards social causes.
Ruchir Punjabi
Cofounder and Advisor
Ruchir was instrumental in helping Renewables.org craft a financing mechanism that matches the need for Global South solar financing with funding from nonprofit investors.
Scott Schwartz
Cofounder & CTO
Formerly director of internal tools engineering at the ad-tech giant Taboola, Scott has architected, managed, and built dozens of enterprise grade products used by millions of people worldwide.
Volunteers & advisors
Levi Tillemann
Advisor
Saul Wainwright
Senior Advisor
Julia Li
Volunteer Copywriter
Bridget Yamzon
Volunteer Designer
Our organization
Renewables.org is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit based in New York City. Our mission is to accelerate the adoption of solar energy across the Global South.
We borrow money from project backers like you and invests it with solar developers, ensuring that the funds are used for high-impact solar projects.
Corporate partners
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We helped finance this University in Gaborone, Botswana because it creates 7.2x the impact of US solar projects. On average, Renewables.org financed solar projects create 5.5x the impact of US solar projects.