Rueil-Malmaison, France, May 7 2020 /3BL Media/ - Schneider Electric, the leader in digital transformation of energy management and automation has announced that it will participate #GivingTuesdayNow, a global day of giving and unity, taking place on May 5, 2020 as an emergency response to the unprecedented need caused by COVID-19.

这一天是由Fivingtuesday（由联合国基金会促进）组织的，除了每年计划的奉献日，该日还将在2020年12月1日举行。这项全球活动旨在激发基层的慷慨，公民参与，商业，慈善和慈善事业激活和支持世界各地的社区和非营利组织。#givingtuesdaynow专注于连接和友善的机会，以回馈19岁的社区和事业，同时练习安全的社会疏远。

To celebrate #GivingTuesdayNow, Schneider Electric Foundation encourages employees, suppliers, customers and partners all over the world to contribute to the “Tomorrow Rising Fund” launched in early April to support emergency response and relief activities post-Covid-19. This “Tomorrow Rising Fund” will help vulnerable, homeless and elderly people, and longer-term reconstruction activities and education and professional training for the most disadvantaged in our communities. Schneider Electric employees and partners can get involved by making financial donations or volunteering. All financial donations will be matched by Schneider Electric Foundation.

The Tomorrow Rising Fund focuses on three priorities:

Since it’s launch, more than 40 countries where Schneider operates have got involved in the fund’s efforts and 19 projects are already identified.

回复: part of the money raised will go to the most vulnerable, homeless people and families struggling with poverty, who live close to Schneider entities. For example, projects to support 8 hospitals in Italy and the distribution of 50,000 food parcels to 351 villages in Lebanon

Recovery: using funds raised to support education and professional training programs. Schneider Electric aims to train 1 million of the world’s most disadvantaged people before 2025 as a vital step to shape and rebuild the future of affected communities. For example, Tomorrow Rising fund will benefit projects to support low income technical students in China.

Resilience: by extending fundraising efforts beyond Schneider’s network of 130,000 employees to the broader ecosystem of partners and proposing digital voluntary missions. Every week, Schneider employees engage and celebrate colleagues, families and friends who make a positive impact. There are stories from all over the world, such as the US team producing face shields on 3D printers or a UK employee-volunteer who ran a marathon on his treadmill.

About GivingTuesday

GivingTuesday is a global generosity movement unleashing the power of people and organizations to transform their communities and the world. GivingTuesday was created in 2012 as a simple idea: a day that encourages people to do good. Over the past eight years, it has grown into a global movement that inspires hundreds of millions of people to give, collaborate, and celebrate generosity.