Partners in Empowerment

Partners in Empowerment™ (PIE) is an international social and economic forum, united in action for a sustainable future.

Comprised of Social Entrepreneurs, Collaborating Non-profits, Educational Institutions, Sustainable Businesses, Responsible Media Groups and Artists in Action, EW Partners in Empowerment™ understand, that by bringing the best of our resources and ideas to the table, we build a better world for humanity.

Whether a media group leads a cause-based marketing campaign to stop AIDS, a university creates greener technology, or an artist inspires a child in need, social, economic and environmental impact is deepened through collaboration of six mutually supportive PIE sectors.

Following its 7 Stage Approach, EW harnesses the expertise and resources of this ecologically inspired participatory network to create economic solutions for a healthier, culturally rich and bio-diverse world.

Over the past several years, "Partners In Empowerment" (PIE) was a friendly term for collaborating non-profits and private-sector supporters.

Now, with great enthusiasm, EW is activating the official "PIE membership Forum" to provide the multi-sector collaboration framework for The Global Summit 2008-2015.

To advance PIE criteria, benefits and sector specific "Proclamations", empowering each member to collaborate at their highest potential, EW is hosting community think-tanks and online forums.

1pie.org

In partnership with The International Free Open Source Software Foundation (iFOSSF) and other IT visionaries, EW is developing the 1pie.org online collaboration portal to catalyze international sustainable development.

Enabling mass collaboration of 6 PIE sectors via EW's 7 Stage Approach, the 1pie.org portal will be a virtual mirror of The Global Summit and most importantly, will harness the power of emerging IT to create global grass-roots access to it.

1pie.org will empower members via:

1. Local Community calendars of cultural arts events, educational workshops, sustainable business promotions and publications;

2. Critical Mass (Policy, Action & Public Awareness) Campaigns unite like-minded groups;

3. Online Eco-Mall fueling PIE community initiatives;

4. Appropriate technology transfer & multi-sector support to local program areas;

5. Tools for Non-profit Collaboration in program areas via shared needs assessments & monitoring that save $ and increase impact;

All sectors of society have the power to advance global solutions, but when only working in their own sector, there is limited exchange capacity. By integrating complimentary local and global partners in mutually-supportive collaborations (doing what they already do best), EW achieves greater results with minimal cost.

While there have been many social and economic forums dedicated to global sustainability in brilliantly diverse inter-disciplinary themes, none has been attempted in such a multi-sector format.

Rather than emphasizing diverse issues or topics such as health, economics, ecology, etc. PIE emphasizes peoples ROLES based on what we have to contribute- these roles are universal and can be applied to any challenge a community or region faces.

*EW offers a multi-sector capacity building workshop for individuals, non-profits, businesses. The dynamic role-play exchange between diverse economic sectors strengthens communication and collaboration skills in participants' social and economic partnerships.

The Partners In Empowerment™ Multi-sector Framework for Collaboration is based upon the proven virtues of adaptive, whole system Complexity Science models. The simplified PIE model was developed by Empowerment Works as a methodology for diverse local and global communities to resolve critical threats to human and environmental security. It serves as a template for universally applicable inclusion of six core social and economic sectors.

While the US Agency for International Development (USAID), Buckminster Fuller Institute’s Design Science Lab, the Clinton Global Initiative and other visionary groups are recognizing the value of Inter-Sectoral Partnering (ISP) and other multi-sector methodologies in solving global challenges, the core idea is based in the very essence of our evolution. While our last 5000 years is marked by totalitarian agriculture, and more recent industrial specialization, fueling top-down linear thinking, mutually-supportive collaboration has enabled humanity to survive and thrive over the millennium. PIE stands for a new era of consciousness reclaiming our sustainable patterns of ecological inter-dependence, while capitalizing upon the advances of science and appropriate technology, to advance localized solutions for a sustainable world.