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| Abbreviation | SCI |
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| Founded | 1987 |
| Founders | Joseph Arnaboldi, Barbara Blum, Bev Blum, Georgianna Borgens Wanjiru, Sherry Cole, Anne Funkhouser, Barbara Kerr, Dave Martin, Don Mahlberg, O. Boyd Mathias, Bob Metcalf, John Murphy, Blaine Pack, Margaret Payne Clark, Eleanor Shimmeal, Carmen and Edwin Pejack, Terry Snyder, and Sheri Lewis. |
| 68-0153141 | |
| Focus | advocacy and education |
| Headquarters | Sacramento, California, United States |
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Area served
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worldwide |
| Methods | direct service, partnerships, and global advocacy |
| Honey Walters | |
| Julie Greene | |
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Revenue (2014)
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$486,898 |
| Expenses (2014) | $404,801 |
| Endowment | $10,000 |
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Employees (2013)
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7 |
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Volunteers (2013)
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40 |
| Mission | Harnessing the power of the sun to benefit people and the environment. |
| Website | www |
| Member of Solar Cookers International Association | |
Solar Cookers International (SCI) is a U.S. based non-profit advocacy group in Sacramento, California, founded by a group of people in 1987 and incorporated on January 6, 1988. Solar Cookers International advocates for and provides education on solar cooking.
Solar Cookers International won an Ashden Award in 2002 for their work with solar cookers in Kenya. In August 2006, SCI was the winner of the World Renewable Energy Award.
Solar Cookers International was founded in 1987 as Solar Box Cookers International. Two American women described as American's serious solar cooker promoters in the 1970s, Barbara Kerr and Sherry Cole partnered with other supporters to form this organization.
SCI produced and distributed manuals describing construction and use of solar box style cookers. They became advocates of how solar cooking could be incorporated into development and relief agency programs. SCI's role evolved into networking with other solar cooking organizations worldwide. They hosted forums for dialog including co-sponsoring three international solar cooking conferences with the University of the Pacific, US, in 1992, the National University of Costa Rica in 1994 and the deemed university, Coimbatore, India in 1997.
SCI also administered a series of solar cooking field projects. Since 1995, SCI has managed or co-managed solar cooking projects in the Nyakach district, Kenya; in the Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya; in the Aisha refugee camp, Ethiopia; in various communities, Zimbabwe; and in Dadaab refugee camp, Kenya.
SCI supported the development of the CooKit, a mass-producible, foldable solar cooker in the 1990s.
SCI has hosted regional and international solar cooking conferences, most recently the Solar Cookers International Conference held in Granada Spain in 2006. SCI publishes Solar Cooker Review three times a year.
SCI developed the CooKit as an adaptation of a cooker designed by Dr. Roger Bernard in France. The cooker consists of a foil-lined cardboard reflector with a dark pot inside a plastic bag. This simple mechanism converts hundreds of watts of sunlight into heat and can cook one or two pots of food at a time.
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