Fiscally Sponsored Projects: Change Agents in Action!
As fiscal sponsor of the following initiatives, Empowerment WORKS carefully vets and continuously works with each to ensure that their actions advance our charitable purpose of fostering a more sustainable, just world, and that their leadership reflects our core values.
While EW provides 501c3 nonprofit status, mentorship and other impact tools, these creative front-line leaders provide limitless social innovation and inspiration as we work to build a learning community together, and catalyze greater impact through collaboration.
Explore links below the map, get inspired and get involved!
While EW provides 501c3 nonprofit status, mentorship and other impact tools, these creative front-line leaders provide limitless social innovation and inspiration as we work to build a learning community together, and catalyze greater impact through collaboration.
Explore links below the map, get inspired and get involved!
Project Title w/ website link, Project Focus. *Year began w/ EW:
Red Lightning Blue Thunder is a transformational education initiative in Black Rock City, Nevada. *2016/17 *2019
The Tree Pledge is a coalition combating climate change by empowering individuals and communities to take local action to plant and protect millions of trees by 2022. *2019
10 Billion Strong is a leadership development organization which inspires, trains, and supports the next generation of global environmental sustainability leaders. *2019
NewBeginnings Charitable Trust is a non-profit, non-governmental organization working at the grassroots level to create an increasingly developed, Rights Based equal and self-sustaining communities in India. *2019
Board Seat Meet is an on and offline platform advancing gender diversity on corporate boards by linking and strengthening social capital of existing members and leading women. * 2019
The Colab Campout microvillage building festival empowers people to see and experience how powerful it is when we collaborate to build a regenerative future together. *2019
Quest House provides safe, affordable lodging, and pre-post operation support to transmasculine individuals. *2019
Back to Earth's Wilderness Immersion and Leadership Development program advances holistic development of teenage boys through practices of self-care and personal growth in a culture of gratitude and peacemaking. *2018
Home Storytellers is a creative media initiative multiplying the impact of extraordinary organizations delivering solutions for Safer, Humane, and Orderly Migration. *2018
The Enlight Collaborative is a connected and resourced community of organizations empowering youth as change-makers reimagining scale through the lens of collaboration. *2017
Extinction Witness is a global arts project that supports the human healing process and the revival of compassionate lifeways. *2012 /2017
The Emerge Project uses media and film to highlight the positive and creative traits of people with African decent, in the emergence of Black entrepreneurs, leaders, and change agents on a global scale. *2017
Chaikuni Institute investigates and promotes sustainable access to plant medicine, healthy food and economic opportunities for local communities in the Peruvian Amazon. *2016
Dageno Girls School is a residential education center for Tanzanian girls, offering holistic support, academics, entrepreneurial leadership & life skills. *2016
Network of Early-Career Sustainable Scientists & Engineers (NESSE) is a movement of young scientists and engineers connecting to tackle global sustainability challenges. *2016
Living Arts Foundation is a community arts and sustainable ecology center providing space for artists, musicians, writers, film-makers, performers and art enthusiasts from the Asheville area to gather and collaborate. - 2016
Agri-links supports women farmers across Africa, starting in Zimbabwe, with appropriate mobile information & technology to improve livelihoods and food security in Rural communities. *2016
North American Permaculture Convergence brings together an exceptional collective of individuals who are committed to creating healthy living systems to make a more resilient future possible. *2016
The Diversity Conference promotes Unification, Networking, Innovation, Talent Acquisition, and Educational Enrichment amongst minority groups throughout the Western Region. *2016
One Heart - One Spirit film project celebrates indigenous wisdom by promoting respect and equality for all human beings, as well as respect for the Earth with it's incredible biodiversity of animals and plants. *2015
Green Seed Arts plants the seeds to keep future generations thinking creatively through heart-centered collaborative arts groups, producing public artworks and empowered change-makers. *2015
The PMS Telethon is a televised and live streamed fundraising event dedicated to finding healthy, female centered, cures for cramps, endometriosis and fibroids. *2015
The Glow Exchange connects and empowers women in diverse local and global communities to build The Glow Effect Centers for Women and Girls, sustainable collectives for learning, earning, and thriving. *2015
Village Ventures International is a social enterprise promoting sustainable agribusiness for rural development, advancing food security, nutrition access, and economic independence of women and youth. *2015
Agbeti Tree of Life serves to heal and empower communities in Ghana, West Africa through holistic herbal treatments and providing information on the links between diet, life style and illness and dis-ease. *2015
BioNova™ Health works to optimize the global health potential of medicinal plants and equitably share the benefits thereof with the communities and natural heritage of source.’ *2015
Cowrie Village is redefining wealth in the East Bay (CA) through ~ cash-free barter events, the online salt mine, and Rootical Gathering, a local lending circle based on the sou-sou model with roots in West Africa. *2014
Paititi Institute is devoted to the daily integration of indigenous wisdom - serving as an intercultural bridge supporting individuals and communities to live activated, responsible and joyful beings in harmony with all life. *2014
permEzone sponsors family farmers in food deficient communities to train in sustainable food system design, and supports them in sharing knowledge and experience within their community using mobile phone technology. *2014
Our Sacred Acres is an Impact Center for local and global conscious community development; providing a place to connect deeply in nature and practice skills for living lightly together. *2014
Global Service Partnerships works to transform both the lives of U.S. citizens and those in developing countries through building mutually beneficial partnerships to address educational challenges. *2014
Kick Butts Take Names | Nicci Tina is creating a community and culture of buttkicking: improving outcomes and changing the way the world sees and responds to tobacco, nicotine and freedom from it. *2014
The Grandmothers Empowerment Project provides financial assistance to Native American Elders in the Klamath-Siskiyou Bioregion so they can continue sharing sustainable lifeways & traditional indigenous practices. *2014
Qeyno Labs' mission is to transform children's lives and give them the power to transform their worlds through social innovation, education and technology. *2014
Revision Ventures closes the wealth gap by giving small businesses and young people access to resources and opportunities that can help them be competitive in the modern economy. *2014
Cosmic Convergence Festival - cultural event series serving local community impact in Guatemala and creating a legacy for our Ancestral Future. *2013
Project Nuevo Mundo Foundation connects People and Impact Centers encouraging resource sharing online and on the ground to catalyze planetary regeneration and individual transformation. *2013
Visualizing Impact is today's digital social justice movement - exposing inequalities with powerful and intuitively designed InfoGraphics, video animations, and other interactive data-visualization tools. *2013
Here is Why: PROJECTS connects agents of change with the people, places and things which require it. A creative collective aiming to inspire others to embrace the unfamiliar through video, photography and words. *2013
NorCal Community Resilience Network builds thriving Transition Initiatives across Northern California through networking, capacity building and community support for a positive transition from fossil fuel dependency. *2013
Living Mandala Education Fund supports regenerative education for individuals, families, communities, organizations, and collaborative projects. *2013
Megabook Initiative empowers children in underprivileged areas of the world with increased access to books so they may develop the critical-thinking and problem-solving skills needed to become our next leaders. *2013
Transition Albany invites all of Albany, California to create a positive transition from fossil fuel dependency to vital, engaged, resilient and interdependent community. *2013
Thousand Locks Charity increases the availability of free wigs for those with medical needs like cancer and alopeicia through salon partnerships and public hair donation events. *2013
Eco Womb connects with you to create a simple and sustainable way of life with your family, providing safe and eco-conscious resources and products. *2013
The Needs Report promotes a ground-up approach to development by providing a public platform for individuals to report their needs - and making their voices heard *2011
Construyendo Futuros empowers All Generations to make Healthy Relationships the Norm through Education, Prevention and Intervention. *2012
Transition Berkeley brings neighbors together to build a more sustainable, resilient future for Berkeley. *2011
The Simama Project empowers underprivileged Kenyan youth by giving them the tools they need to get themselves out of poverty. *2011
The Bayview BOOM Artcar/Artbike Parade fosters economic opportunity through a co-creative neighborhood festival on wheels. *2011
Exponential Education strengthens the basic education fundamentals for extraordinary youth in Africa and India through a self-multiplying scholarship & mentor-ship program. *2011
Red Lightning Blue Thunder is a transformational education initiative in Black Rock City, Nevada. *2016/17 *2019
The Tree Pledge is a coalition combating climate change by empowering individuals and communities to take local action to plant and protect millions of trees by 2022. *2019
10 Billion Strong is a leadership development organization which inspires, trains, and supports the next generation of global environmental sustainability leaders. *2019
NewBeginnings Charitable Trust is a non-profit, non-governmental organization working at the grassroots level to create an increasingly developed, Rights Based equal and self-sustaining communities in India. *2019
Board Seat Meet is an on and offline platform advancing gender diversity on corporate boards by linking and strengthening social capital of existing members and leading women. * 2019
The Colab Campout microvillage building festival empowers people to see and experience how powerful it is when we collaborate to build a regenerative future together. *2019
Quest House provides safe, affordable lodging, and pre-post operation support to transmasculine individuals. *2019
Back to Earth's Wilderness Immersion and Leadership Development program advances holistic development of teenage boys through practices of self-care and personal growth in a culture of gratitude and peacemaking. *2018
Home Storytellers is a creative media initiative multiplying the impact of extraordinary organizations delivering solutions for Safer, Humane, and Orderly Migration. *2018
The Enlight Collaborative is a connected and resourced community of organizations empowering youth as change-makers reimagining scale through the lens of collaboration. *2017
Extinction Witness is a global arts project that supports the human healing process and the revival of compassionate lifeways. *2012 /2017
The Emerge Project uses media and film to highlight the positive and creative traits of people with African decent, in the emergence of Black entrepreneurs, leaders, and change agents on a global scale. *2017
Chaikuni Institute investigates and promotes sustainable access to plant medicine, healthy food and economic opportunities for local communities in the Peruvian Amazon. *2016
Dageno Girls School is a residential education center for Tanzanian girls, offering holistic support, academics, entrepreneurial leadership & life skills. *2016
Network of Early-Career Sustainable Scientists & Engineers (NESSE) is a movement of young scientists and engineers connecting to tackle global sustainability challenges. *2016
Living Arts Foundation is a community arts and sustainable ecology center providing space for artists, musicians, writers, film-makers, performers and art enthusiasts from the Asheville area to gather and collaborate. - 2016
Agri-links supports women farmers across Africa, starting in Zimbabwe, with appropriate mobile information & technology to improve livelihoods and food security in Rural communities. *2016
North American Permaculture Convergence brings together an exceptional collective of individuals who are committed to creating healthy living systems to make a more resilient future possible. *2016
The Diversity Conference promotes Unification, Networking, Innovation, Talent Acquisition, and Educational Enrichment amongst minority groups throughout the Western Region. *2016
One Heart - One Spirit film project celebrates indigenous wisdom by promoting respect and equality for all human beings, as well as respect for the Earth with it's incredible biodiversity of animals and plants. *2015
Green Seed Arts plants the seeds to keep future generations thinking creatively through heart-centered collaborative arts groups, producing public artworks and empowered change-makers. *2015
The PMS Telethon is a televised and live streamed fundraising event dedicated to finding healthy, female centered, cures for cramps, endometriosis and fibroids. *2015
The Glow Exchange connects and empowers women in diverse local and global communities to build The Glow Effect Centers for Women and Girls, sustainable collectives for learning, earning, and thriving. *2015
Village Ventures International is a social enterprise promoting sustainable agribusiness for rural development, advancing food security, nutrition access, and economic independence of women and youth. *2015
Agbeti Tree of Life serves to heal and empower communities in Ghana, West Africa through holistic herbal treatments and providing information on the links between diet, life style and illness and dis-ease. *2015
BioNova™ Health works to optimize the global health potential of medicinal plants and equitably share the benefits thereof with the communities and natural heritage of source.’ *2015
Cowrie Village is redefining wealth in the East Bay (CA) through ~ cash-free barter events, the online salt mine, and Rootical Gathering, a local lending circle based on the sou-sou model with roots in West Africa. *2014
Paititi Institute is devoted to the daily integration of indigenous wisdom - serving as an intercultural bridge supporting individuals and communities to live activated, responsible and joyful beings in harmony with all life. *2014
permEzone sponsors family farmers in food deficient communities to train in sustainable food system design, and supports them in sharing knowledge and experience within their community using mobile phone technology. *2014
Our Sacred Acres is an Impact Center for local and global conscious community development; providing a place to connect deeply in nature and practice skills for living lightly together. *2014
Global Service Partnerships works to transform both the lives of U.S. citizens and those in developing countries through building mutually beneficial partnerships to address educational challenges. *2014
Kick Butts Take Names | Nicci Tina is creating a community and culture of buttkicking: improving outcomes and changing the way the world sees and responds to tobacco, nicotine and freedom from it. *2014
The Grandmothers Empowerment Project provides financial assistance to Native American Elders in the Klamath-Siskiyou Bioregion so they can continue sharing sustainable lifeways & traditional indigenous practices. *2014
Qeyno Labs' mission is to transform children's lives and give them the power to transform their worlds through social innovation, education and technology. *2014
Revision Ventures closes the wealth gap by giving small businesses and young people access to resources and opportunities that can help them be competitive in the modern economy. *2014
Cosmic Convergence Festival - cultural event series serving local community impact in Guatemala and creating a legacy for our Ancestral Future. *2013
Project Nuevo Mundo Foundation connects People and Impact Centers encouraging resource sharing online and on the ground to catalyze planetary regeneration and individual transformation. *2013
Visualizing Impact is today's digital social justice movement - exposing inequalities with powerful and intuitively designed InfoGraphics, video animations, and other interactive data-visualization tools. *2013
Here is Why: PROJECTS connects agents of change with the people, places and things which require it. A creative collective aiming to inspire others to embrace the unfamiliar through video, photography and words. *2013
NorCal Community Resilience Network builds thriving Transition Initiatives across Northern California through networking, capacity building and community support for a positive transition from fossil fuel dependency. *2013
Living Mandala Education Fund supports regenerative education for individuals, families, communities, organizations, and collaborative projects. *2013
Megabook Initiative empowers children in underprivileged areas of the world with increased access to books so they may develop the critical-thinking and problem-solving skills needed to become our next leaders. *2013
Transition Albany invites all of Albany, California to create a positive transition from fossil fuel dependency to vital, engaged, resilient and interdependent community. *2013
Thousand Locks Charity increases the availability of free wigs for those with medical needs like cancer and alopeicia through salon partnerships and public hair donation events. *2013
Eco Womb connects with you to create a simple and sustainable way of life with your family, providing safe and eco-conscious resources and products. *2013
The Needs Report promotes a ground-up approach to development by providing a public platform for individuals to report their needs - and making their voices heard *2011
Construyendo Futuros empowers All Generations to make Healthy Relationships the Norm through Education, Prevention and Intervention. *2012
Transition Berkeley brings neighbors together to build a more sustainable, resilient future for Berkeley. *2011
The Simama Project empowers underprivileged Kenyan youth by giving them the tools they need to get themselves out of poverty. *2011
The Bayview BOOM Artcar/Artbike Parade fosters economic opportunity through a co-creative neighborhood festival on wheels. *2011
Exponential Education strengthens the basic education fundamentals for extraordinary youth in Africa and India through a self-multiplying scholarship & mentor-ship program. *2011
Past projects include:
- RRR Computer.org (Reclaim Recycle Reuse Computer) 2014 - 2019
- Uryadi's Village for children and their extended families in Ethiopia 2014 - 2019
- Women’s P2P Network connects women globally with e-literacy and access 2012 - 2017
- Digital Smoke Signals Indigenous Media in Action #NoDAPL #WaterIsLife - 2016 - 2018
- Venice Coalition to Preserve Unique Community Character (VC-PUCC) - 2016
- Red Lightning transformational education initiative (2016 - 2018)
- Musical Activist Alliance mobilizes direct collective action (2015)
- The Visionaria Network nurtures the next generation of sustainable development leaders. 2013 - 2018
- 109 World platform creating positive impact in a way that fits lifestyle. 2015 - 2017
- Mud Water multidisciplinary dance theater project - 2015
- Coaching for Social Change professional coaching and training 2015 - 2016
- Vets2Vets helps veterans transform into financially independent - 2015
- Helping Others Rise thru education - 2015 - 2017
- Samadre community based production of tents for Tibetan women in exile - 2014
- The Beehive crowdfunding platform for the humanitarian community - 2014
- Cambio Creativo is an educational partnership for socially at-risk youth - 2014
- One4All is a social giving + crowd-funding site - 2014
- Audacity Urban Youth Project provides youth opportunities for community engagement - 2014
- Sucre Blue quality access to patients around the world. - 2013
- EdTrip Project innovative learning programs, travel and inclusiveness (2013)
- Data Roads Foundation human-to-human communication (2013)
- Tribal Convergence Network supports Community, Collaboration, & Communication - 2013
- Our Personal Financial Freedom Training Program online education for women in Africa - 2013
- Uganda Project (UP) provides education & other services to extraordinary students for positive change. - 2011
- Forms of Identification films by Jessica Ingersoll-Cope & Kristin Tieche / Selva Vision -2010
- Cooperative Education Project development of cooperative education institutions 2013 - 2014
- Rise Up Development Collective for the people of Wli Todzi, Ghana (2011)
- Peace on EarthBench Movement (POEM) empowers youth & their communities - 2011
- Elizka Relief Foundation promotes sustainable integrated human development in Ghana - 2011
- The Transpartisan Alliance promotes a whole system, collaborative governance structure - 2008
- Rising Tide re. Contemporary Chinese Art and Pearls on the Ocean Floor - films by Robert Adanto. - 2011
- Startup Weekend Oakland innovates an inclusive technology ecosystem (2014)
- Clover Foundation for young children in Uganda (2014)
- The Asheville Tool Library of Asheville, NC (2013)
- Young Women's Leadership for young women world-wide (2013)
- Project Seres serving youth in Guatemala and beyond (2012)
- Serving While Achieving Greatness (SWAG) empowering youth in NYC & beyond (2012)
- Root Alliance advancing life-saving technologies research with local partners in India (2012)
- ADA Compliance Monitoring and Education (ACME) (2011)
- The Zuia Project enables women and children of Ugenya, Kenya (2011)
- Jitokeze Wamama Wafrika Empowering Women in Kenya (2011)
- Nu Intentions Women in Uganda (2010)
- Bukavu Youth Action Center (2011-2013)
- Kiva Fellow: Natalie Sherman (2012)
- Internet Freedom Labs (2011-2012)
- Vanishing of the Bees (2007 - 2009)
- Reality Cares - Children's Benefit Events (2008 - 2009)
- Marla Leigh's Rhythms in Peace Tour (2007)
- The Coalition for a Sustainable Africa (CSAfrica) (2006 - 2007)
- Teens & Toddlers Santa Barbara - innovative public, private partnership linking early childhood development with teen pregnancy prevention education created by Laura Huxley (2004 -2005)
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