While the resources and technologies to build a sustainable, just future are plenty, effective coordination and coherence in international development aid is lacking.

Empowerment WORKS 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.

In the world's most culturally rich, yet economically challenged communities, access to markets, appropriate technologies and education can empower people to transform local problems into sustainable livelihoods & opportunities to address the issues that matter most.

 

In Action: What We Do & How We Do It

 

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.