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Humanity's most pressing social and environmental challenges are inextricably linked and require whole-system solutions.

Real change requires all of us.

Empowerment WORKS engages the best of us all

to co-create a sustainable future for humanity.

Co-create a global community

of Partners In Empowerment (PIE)

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Inspiration

In the communities we serve, the greatest forces for change are the people who live there, addressing root causes of critical issues from the ground up.

Often looked to as the consciences of humanity, artists have a unique ability to create powerful and innovative social change.

Whether through music, visual art, performance, or poetry, artists speak with integrity and the world listens. More...

Education

Empowerment WORKS' local action strategy, "7 Stages to Sustainability (7SS)" models the way nature creates - tapping into the creative force in us all:

1. Engage
2. Assess

3. Plan
4. Learn
5. Build
6. Expand
7. Sustain

What ppl are saying:

[EW's] 7 Stages to Sustainability guides us to act and measure our results.”

-Student in China, World Academy for the Future of Women

I think that within these steps just about everything that has to be done is included. Step 7 is the culmination
– a critical joint effort.” -Arthur H. Purcell, Ph.D., Educator, former consultant to the UN Economic Commission for Europe

“Until one sees how disorganized it is on the ground for aid workers, and trainers, and local organizations, they cannot imagine how valuable this [7SS] framework will be.”-Heather Goodwin, Post-Tsunami Aid Worker

Collaboration

Like eco-systems, diverse communities thrive.

EW's growing global community of Partners in Empowerment (PIE) is comprised of six diverse social and economic sectors.

In uniting this multi-sector network via its 7 Stages to Sustainability (7SS) community development road-map, Empowerment WORKS (EW) forges an ethical trade supply-chain delivering the tools grass-roots communities need (access to markets, appropriate technologies and capital) to turn local assets into global health, economic and environmental solutions.

Through The Global Summit and other world changing forums, EW empowers humanity to co-create a sustainable future.

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EW's "Beyond Fair Trade" standard gives 5% back.

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