Empowerment Works

Empowerment WORKS (EW) is an international sustainable community development organization advancing whole-system, locally-led solutions for a thriving world. EW recognizes a key barrier to change being the predominant philanthropic system itself--along with its inherent paradigm and related structures. In targeting single issues from the top down, the creativity of local stakeholders is gridlocked. Local & global implementing partners- in competition for external funding--remain isolated and divided. Unfortunately, in the cause of global support, those most in need are disconnected from the vital resources in their own backyard. Working globally from the ground up, EW brings these too... read more Empowerment WORKS (EW) is an international sustainable community development organization advancing whole-system, locally-led solutions for a thriving world. EW recognizes a key barrier to change being the predominant philanthropic system itself--along with its inherent paradigm and related structures. In targeting single issues from the top down, the creativity of local stakeholders is gridlocked. Local & global implementing partners- in competition for external funding--remain isolated and divided. Unfortunately, in the cause of global support, those most in need are disconnected from the vital resources in their own backyard. Working globally from the ground up, EW brings these tools within the grasp of citizens, businesses & organizations on the front lines of poverty, climate change and conflict. Guided by EW's flagship 7 Stages to Sustainability (7SS) collaboration framework, local partners utilize local human and environmental resources as building blocks for a secure future. Through The Global Summit, the African Local Summit, its ongoing Artists in Action event series and other creative media outreach, EW unites community-led initiatives with a multi-sector network of Partners in Empowerment (PIE) who contribute their diverse skills, appropriate technologies and access to market to catalyze local impact. Through this holistic mission, Empowerment WORKS inspires people across the globe to realize the value of their existing knowledge, unique talents and collective potential to change the world.