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Fiscally Sponsored Projects: Change Agents in Action!

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As the fiscal sponsor (providing 501c3 nonprofit status and other impact support tools) of the below 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.  These front-line leaders provide invaluable social innovation and inspiration as we build a learning community and greater impact through collaboration. Explore their websites below, be inspired and get involved!
Project Title w/ website link, Project Focus. - Year began w/ EW:

Drop the ADL from Schools brings truth to urgent questions of racism, injustice, and all forms of bigotry. -2026

Owed Soap is a youth driven social enterprise spreading sustainable hygiene where it is needed most. -2025

Eradicate Slavery Alliance creates jobs that prevent and eradicate slavery in the micro-regions of the world. -2025

Hope Rising Education is dedicated to providing children with the tools they need to thrive in Zimbabwe. -2025

USA Palestine Mental Health Network supports the people of Palestine in their struggle to achieve justice. -2025

Riverside4Palestine works with families in Gaza to provide clean water tanks and emergency starvation relief -2025 

Springboard Connectivity empowers individuals and groups who want to be part of climate crisis solutions. -2024
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Seed Library Network provides free resources on how to start, and maintain a seed library. -2024

Thai Child Development Foundation delivers education, essential medical care, and a nurturing environment. -2024

Back to the Start participants discover that even behind bars their stories are important and have power. -2023

​Akaedia hosts after-school camps to bridge the educational divide in the field of technology. -2023

The Collaborative Technology Alliance is building social technology for a thriving world, together. -2023

The Mesa Harmony Garden volunteers grow fresh local produce for the people of Santa Barbara, CA. -2023

Juani works in Sega, rural Kenya to support a future where all women can access the care they need. -2023

WildChoir (formerly “Thrive Choir”) sings the music for the revolution. Based in Oakland, California. - 2023

Going to Seed inspires a shift in agriculture towards adaptation, community & diversity, one garden at a time. -2022

Refugio Tinti works in Costa Rica to restore and maintain ecosystems, to enhance biodiversity. -2022

The Imagine Convergence gathers innovators, activists, and artists for a healthy and sustainable future. -2022

Sumak Kawsay is an educational and cultural association founded in the Sacred Valley of Peru. -2022

Dev Dance Theatre gives female artists from various backgrounds a platform to express their stories. -2022

LOAM is a Cultivating agency and aliveness  in the spaces where we work, learn, and lead. -2022

Amoveo Mundi guides individuals and institutions in identifying humanity’s shared purpose. -2022

Hylo.com is an open-source, purpose-driven collaboration platform designed to scale well-being and impact with powerful tools for resource sharing and trust building in community. -2022

Nativien co-develop intercultural models that supporting the preservation of Indigenous social fabric and protection of the land that has sustained them for millennia. -2021

Central American Ancestry | CAHAAS is dedicated to collecting, preserving, and sharing Central America's rich and dynamic history with individuals and communities. -2021

EARF (elevate all regenerative food/farmers/friends) repairs the broken link between people, food, and the land that everything comes from through regenerative Community Supported Agriculture in Rhode Island, USA. - 2021

Media Sutra Foundation supports the arts, culture and creative process to fuel social movements that dismantle oppressive systems and build new ones rooted in justice and freedom. -2021

San Diego Green Infrastructure Consortium applies a collaborative, natural systems inspired approach to create major improvements in community resilience. -2021

Revision Education is a fellowship series that provides Title I Bay Area high school teachers with paid training, resources, and one-on-one support in getting students outside. -2021 (in 2022 supporting kids in Ukraine)

The Lama Dorje Foundation works to awakening consciousness and human potential for creating a flourishing world for the sake of all that live - to inspire an enlightened society. -2021

Sacred Leadership Council is a council of leaders committed to stewardship, innovation and impact to co-create a wave of possibility and change through ritual, ceremony, and mastermind. -2021

Heartland Collective offers people a space to fully activate their role in making the world a better place -2020

Diamonds for Peace works with artisanal diamond miners and diggers in Liberia to build their capacity and market access for ethically mined diamonds and thus improve their own communities. -2020

Election Verification Network (EVN) is a professional society of election officials, researchers, and advocates committed to accurate, accessible, transparent, reliable, and verifiable elections. -2020

Hampi Mama Sanctuary is an intercultural team of indigenous wisdom-keepers, inspiring leaders, and global pioneers committed to a socially and ecologically thriving world.  -2020

WILDSEED Community Farm and Healing Village is an emerging Black and Brown-led, feminine-centered, queer-loving, earth-based  sanctuary, and political and creative home on 181 acres in Millerton, NY. -2020

Passing The Torch Initiative fosters 'a better, more peaceful world' (Olympic Charter) by harnessing the power and magic of the international Olympic movement as a force for good in society.  -2019

Terran Watershed is amplifying cooperation among people working to regenerate our communities and our planet, by building systems and tools that foster trust and collaboration, starting in the Bay Area bioregion. -2019

The Colab Campout micro-village building festival empowers people to see and experience how powerful it is when we collaborate to build a regenerative future together.   - 2019

Regenerate Change applies patterns of the natural world to support the regenerative change movement; via holistic integration of personal self-care, professional growth, and resilient networks.  - 2019

Home Storytellers is a creative media initiative multiplying the impact of extraordinary organizations delivering solutions for  Safer, Humane, and Orderly Migration.  - 2018

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

Paititi Institute advances 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

Farmers Alliance for Restoration 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

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 

The Needs Report promotes a ground-up approach to development via a public input platform. - 2011

The Bayview BOOM Artcar/Artbike Parade fosters economic opportunity through a festival on wheels. - 2011 

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