Milkywire is a technology-driven giving platform that makes contributing easy, accessible, and engaging for companies who care about the environment. Unlike other charity organizations and giving platforms, Milkywire provides rewarding, transparent, and personalized feedback on contributions.

Milkywire is not a charity or NGO but a registered Swedish company.

Milkywire has a global audience that allows you to connect, fundraise, and educate on the issues you work with. We also help you reach out to potential partners and donors, providing guidance on marketing, content creation, and more so your organization can focus on what it does best – saving the planet.

Milkywire itself is not a donor or organization but a platform for creating impact. We let donors directly influence where their money goes and support multiple causes they care about in one place. We show the actual work done in the field through content reports, and we track where the money goes for full transparency.

Milkywire helps organizations get funding through private and corporate donations. Companies and private individuals can support our "impact funds," which encompass initiatives driven by organizations working under a specific theme.

Milkywire supports a wide range of initiatives, from locally-rooted civil society organizations to pioneering carbon removal start-ups to advocacy and policy networks. We focus on initiatives connected to the environment, such as saving oceans and seas, protecting wildlife, restoring forests and landscapes, supporting environmental defenders, and fighting climate change.

90% of your donation directly supports our carefully audited, high-impact organizations. 10% covers platform and transaction costs. Of the 90% we disburse, up to 10% is spent on compliance and fundraising for the organization, while the rest goes towards their initiative budget. Our model is also audited annually by PwC.

Yes, the whistleblowing function can be found at www.milkywire.com/whistleblowing and can be used anonymously by anyone. Anything that you think might seriously affect Milkywire, our donors, or the organizations on our platform is worth reporting.

Together with our impact partners we select high-quality initiatives that drive long-lasting positive impact. Impact partners source projects and we review and approve the proposed initiative. You can read more about this process here.

Impact partners are an essential part of a strategic partnership in the impact management work process, where we collaborate with a third party who is responsible for due diligence and quality assurance of grants to locally rooted organizations. The partnership aims to be strategic because it creates mutual business value through sharing of resources and information, enhanced efficiency, reduced risk, and enhanced support to local partners.

At Milkywire, we work with impact partners to identify initiatives that align with our values and criteria. As a result, we kindly request that organizations do not submit unsolicited proposals directly to us. However, we will publicly announce when opportunities arise to submit proposals for our funds, and you may follow us on our social media channels to find out about future opportunities.

Milkywire cooperates with companies that share our values and ambitions regarding the environment and social responsibility. All corporations are screened before entering a partnership with Milkywire assessing various aspects.

No, Milkywire reserves the right to refuse or return donations from third parties that we do not deem aligned with Milkywire’s partnership policy.

Although Milkywire is not a grantmaker, Milkywire manages the relationships with corporate donors and fundraises for the impact funds. Milkywire collaborates with impact partners for each impact fund, who provide grants to the organizations within the selected initiatives.

Milkywire is a technology-driven giving platform that enables companies and individuals to support environmental and/or climate-focused initiatives. These initiatives are selected by Milkywire and its impact partners based on their potential to create long-lasting positive impact. The funded organizations are vetted to ensure compliance with relevant local regulations, and are typically part of a portfolio of projects under a specific theme, known as an Impact Fund.

Yes, we have created the Climate Transformation Fund, which focuses on high-cost carbon removal projects, research initiatives, and advocacy and policy projects. Some of the initiatives selected for this fund include for-profit companies. However, all projects must be deemed aligned with our CTF policy.

If you have an active initiative or are an Impact Partner, you can follow your donations and funding raised in your financial overview directly on our website here. You can see how much funding is needed until you meet your goal, get an overview of your monthly support, and more.

Funds raised through the Milkywire platform are directed to our Impact partners, who act as a grantmaker and ensure the distribution of the funds to the local partners that are part of the initiative. They also ensure that donations are properly tracked, both financially and from an impact perspective.

Since we work with impact partners to ensure high-quality impact, most reporting requirements are within their responsibility. However, we require impact partners to report to us, and we require initiatives to submit regular content reports.

Content reports are photo and video updates uploaded via our platform, showcasing the progress of your work in a transparent way. An initiative is encouraged to create content reports on a weekly basis but is required at least once per month.

We use content reports for monitoring and reporting purposes so Milkywire can follow the progress of your initiative. Additionally, content reports give your donors and potential donors a chance to connect with you and follow your work and progress in real-time, encouraging additional support.

Anyone working within an initiative may create content reports, but we prefer people who are in the field or are part of the implementation of the initiative.

You must have an internet connection to upload content reports. You map upload via your smartphone or computer through our website.

By supporting the Climate Transformation Fund companies contribute to the diverse types of solutions needed to solve climate change. This not only increases the chance that the whole world reaches net-zero, but also decreases the risk of investment, as the contribution is spread across a number of high-impact projects.

Annually, we invite global projects to participate in our climate transformation fund. After issuing this call for proposals, we select approximately 30 projects that best meet our criteria for maximum impact. Our most recent call for proposals attracted over 1,000 applications, resulting in a selection rate of about 2%!

Choosing Milkywire's curated fund approach offers a diversified, scientifically-backed portfolio of projects, as opposed to direct carbon credit purchases which often lack this breadth and strategic alignment. Furthermore you are not risking allegations of greenwashing for making compensation claims and can communicate that you are committed to supporting the most effective climate projects, wherever they are.

We try to find projects that get the most bang for the buck, but, the CTF does not issue carbon credits or to claim offsets. Our focus is on long term impact. This can mean buying carbon removals at a higher price today to help them become cheaper in the future or supporting credible environmental organizations to protect forests and plant trees. We try to quantify the effect of the contributions in our reporting, but the actual implication of a tonne of carbon avoided or removed differs significantly between solutions. Some solutions avoid releasing carbon in the short term, some capture carbon and store it permanently, and some lobby decision-makers to create regulation that stops emissions in the future.

Durable carbon removal refers to various technologies and projects that remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere and store it long term (100s, often 1,000s of years). Over 90% of global GDP is now committed to net-zero, where the use of technology for Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) of unavoidable emissions will play a key role to deliver on targets. However, the CDR market is in its infancy and in order to meet projected future demand, significant funding is needed right now.

There is no exact answer to what constitutes a credible fee, as the white-paper explains, there a number of ways to view a credible fee. For example, one way is looking at the cost of durably removing and storing CO₂ from the atmosphere. Today that costs several hundred US dollars per tonne for most methods, but industries and governments are targeting 100 USD/t as a likely achievable cost. The research group, New Climate Institute, has determined 100 euros per tonne as a credible level for corporate climate contributions based on the marginal abatement cost.That being said, this can range across different scopes and needs to be defining on a company-by-company basis. If you'd like help understanding what a carbon fee could look like in your organisation - contact us here.

In terms of communicating the impact achieved through Milkywire, the key is to be transparent as possible rather than making claims. This is why an internal carbon fee is a useful tool for climate contributions, as rather than claiming you have offset XX tons, you are effectively taxing your own emissions (therefore adding an incentive to reduce) and explaining where the funds raised have been spent. You can read more about how one of partners Northzone communicate their impact here.