I confess I've only really been invested in this couple since stumbling across these great threads, and haven't had the time to do much digging, but after reading a post about H&M's visit to California fire-affected regions and wondering why the Archewell Foundation wasn't mobilised to help, or why some donation wasn't forthcoming from that source, I went online again to the couple's various sites to see what I could find concerning what - exactly - the Foundation is up re actually fulfilling these grandiose aims of "changing the world, one step at a time" or whatever. I don't know if this isn't telling PP what they already know already, but here goes:
If you google "Sussex Royal" this will take you to sussexroyal.com. Then you click on the link which will take you to the page entitled "The Office of Prince Harry and Meghan (The Duke and Duchess of Sussex)". Scroll down to the very small link "Learn More" at the bottom, and that will take you to a page featuring two further links, one to The Archewell Foundation and Archewell Productions.
I chose Archewell Productions, which took me to a page with nothing on it apart from the slogan "Show Up, Do Good", but if you then go to "Programs" and click on that, there are two productions featured: one, "The Archewell Foundation Parents Network" and, secondly, "The Welcome Project". I clicked on the first, which took me to some brief info and a lot of large photos, then clicked on "Join the Network," which took me to another page entitled "Join the Network", then on to another page telling you to "Join the Parents' Network" (God, this is useless) which, finally, gives you, the user, the option of filling in your details and submitting them for moderation, after which you will finally get to join this Network: how much and what sort of information it communicates to its members I have no idea.
The other, The Welcome Project, does, from memory: "Address the social isolation of recently resettled women around the world and building more inclusive and settled communities", with 11 active Welcome projects across the USA. The "About and "Updates" will give you a list of various summits, reports on these 11 projects, updates about how they are getting on.
So that was Archewell Productions. Now for the Archewell Foundation, which we are given to understand is a separate entity from Archewell Productions. Er. I click on the heading "Archewell Foundation". No movement on the page: somehow it has managed to be the same page, with, again, just the one slogan: "Show Up, Do Good" on it. Scroll down, past a series of very large animated photographs (this is the most appalling design imaginable, IMO) and, finally, "Our Impact". Ah ha! Finally! Facts! Hard information! And what "Our Impact" is is the following:
300+ women participating in the Welcome Project.
2,000 youth in Nigeria now have access to an adaptive sports court.
100k girls will receive digital wellness programming.
We have reports, too:
Impact Reports dating year by year for 2020.
Form 990 Reports dating year by year from 2021.
Insight Reports dating year by year from 2023.
To sum up: I didn't go into all of it, but it seems that what the role of the Archewell Foundation amounts to is working with, and coordinating, a loose federation of some 30 or 40, possibly more, community groups, activist associations, and small NGOs across the USA, also located in Ghana, Colombia, and Nigeria, which makes H&M's visits there comprehensible. This federation is broadly linked with themes such as digital wellness and combating harm caused by social media, disadvantaged women, youth development.
Some of the reports above are also in video format: you will also find them on YouTube. You will also, I'm afraid, find another news item entitled: "Meghan and Harry Try to Save Face after Archewell Donations Plummet" with the following nugget:
"Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's Archewell Foundation has experienced a significant decline in donations in 2022, with only two individuals contributing a total of $1m. This marks a staggering decrease of $11m compared to the previous year, when the foundation received over $13m from multiple donors. The drop in donations is seen as a reflection of the couple's decreasing popularity and the public's perception of their charitable endeavours".
So why do they not appeal via the website for individual donations, as is the usual practice with any NGO or charity, and why isn't there any evidence of the usual quid pro quo with corporate and state sponsors, publishing their names and logos in a prominent position right on the front page of the site?
As for "public perception of their charitable endeavours": the public doesn't have ANY perception of their charitable endeavours, in no small measure due to this bloody awful web design and presentation, and the couple's utterly cack handed, self-defeating and counterproductive approach, not only to anything transmitted via electronic media, but all broadcasting and print media in general, and that very much includes their broadcasted speeches and interviews, such as the one where they were talking about youth suicides, managing in the process to upset a bereaved couple and thoroughly alienate the interviewer through some trifling slight perceived by Meghan: there would be no use in asking the impossible, just to keep their own egos, personal concerns and family life out of it, and focus on the question in hand - such as, for example, providing some hard information as to the means by which parents watching could join the Parents Network; and cut the soundbites and other waffle.