Harry and Meghan Markle unveil new name for Archewell Foundation
Celebrating its fifth anniversary, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s Archewell Foundation is rebranding as Archewell Philanthropies.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle founded the charity in 2020 after stepping down from royal duties and moving to Los Angeles. It operates within the framework of the mission “Show up, do good”.
This year, the Foundation supported safer digital spaces and responsible artificial intelligence (AI) development.
It also provided funds to support children in conflict zones such as Gaza and Ukraine.
The name Archewell combines the ancient Greek term “arche,” meaning “source of action,” with “well,” meaning “abundant source or supply, the place where we go to go deep.”
A spokesperson for Harry and Meghan said: “This next chapter allows Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, to expand their global philanthropic efforts as a family with meaningful reach and maximum impact, grounded in the same values, partnerships and commitment to showing up and doing good.”
The Archewell Foundation has previously donated large amounts of money to various causes.
The charity donated $500,000 (£369,000) to projects supporting injured children in Gaza and Ukraine; this money was used to assist the World Health Organization with medical evacuations and also to fund work to develop prosthetics for young people seriously injured in conflict.
The three Archewell grants are $200,000 (£145,600) to WHO to support medical evacuations from Gaza to Jordan, $150,000 (£111,700) to the Save the Children charity to provide ongoing humanitarian support in Gaza, and $150,000 (£111,700) to the Center for Blast Injury Studies to assist efforts to develop prosthetics for the injured. £). children, especially those injured by the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza.
In May 2024, the charity was listed as “delinquent” and a default notice letter was sent to the foundation on May 3 for “failure to submit required annual reports and/or renewal fees”, although Archewell Foundation’s status was later changed to “current”.
The letter warned that an organization listed as an offender was prohibited from “soliciting or distributing charitable funds” and that its “registration may be suspended or revoked by the registration authority.”
In a later statement, the California Department of Justice stated that the Archewell Foundation was “up to date and in good standing.”
