Fiscally Sponsored Projects: Change Agents in Action!
As the fiscal sponsor of the below initiatives (providing 501c3 nonprofit status and other impact support tools), 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 links below, be inspired and get involved!
As the fiscal sponsor of the below initiatives (providing 501c3 nonprofit status and other impact support tools), 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 links below, be inspired and get involved!
Project Title w/ website link, Project Focus. - Year began w/ EW:
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
DC Books to Prisons provides books to people who are incarcerated, so they have resources to further their education, build skills, and open their minds to new possibilities. - 2020
Sahiyo works to empower Asian communities to end female genital cutting and create positive social change through dialogue, education, and collaboration based on community involvement. - 2020
Reviveolution 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
LitterRally is a mobile trash pickup dance party that inspires people to redefine how we relate to waste while having a blast. -2020
WeMori: We Need Forests. Forests Need Us. Protect and restore forests worldwide. Fight climate change, biodiversity loss and deforestation with your fingertips. - 2020
World Marathon Challenge - We run for those who cant. This 7 x 7 x7 Celebration of Health challenges two ultra-marathoners to run 7 Marathons in 7 Continents in 7 Days to raise funds and awareness for depression. - 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
Ovio revolutionizes pro-bono work for the tech industry and brings together social impact organizations, passionate people and companies to make skill-based volunteering easy and rewarding for all. -2019
Nepal Empowered works to empower the Men, Women and Children of Karki Gaun and support them to rebuild and improve their Quality of Life through literacy, housing and sustainable livelihood creation. - 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
De La Tierra is a partnership with the Kofan communities of the Amazonian region of Columbia & Ecuador, rooted in their resilient indigenous cultures in stewarding a strong, culturally intact, sovereign future. -2019
For Here, Please. helps small businesses connect more deeply with their customers and their community by transitioning to environmentally sustainable and humane business practices. *2019
SF Global Shapers is a community of young leaders committed to creating positive change in ourselves, our local community, and the world. An initiative of the World Economic Forum (WEF) and Empowerment Works. *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 micro-village 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
Regenerative Design for Change Makers applies patterns of the natural world to support the regenerative change movement; via holistic integration of personal self-care, professional growth, and resilient networks. '2018
Home Storytellers is a creative media initiative multiplying the impact of extraordinary organizations delivering solutions for Safer, Humane, and Orderly Migration. *2018
Family Cooperative Camp offers a nurturing, play-based environment designed to help kids become self-confident, self-aware, compassionate and empathetic human beings… and to have fun! - 2017
LittleUSA Solar Farm is creating community-based renewable electricity-- to power 400 homes, locally controlled wealth, and directly improve the job skills of local citizens facing barriers to entry in the workplace. - 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
Kick Butts Take Names is creating a community and culture of buttkicking: improving outcomes and changing the way the world sees and responds to tobacco, nicotine and freedom. *2014
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
Kick Butts Take Names is creating a community and culture of buttkicking: improving outcomes and changing the way the world sees and responds to tobacco, nicotine and freedom. *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
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
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
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 to governments, international organizations, NGOs, and the public at large. *2011
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
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
DC Books to Prisons provides books to people who are incarcerated, so they have resources to further their education, build skills, and open their minds to new possibilities. - 2020
Sahiyo works to empower Asian communities to end female genital cutting and create positive social change through dialogue, education, and collaboration based on community involvement. - 2020
Reviveolution 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
LitterRally is a mobile trash pickup dance party that inspires people to redefine how we relate to waste while having a blast. -2020
WeMori: We Need Forests. Forests Need Us. Protect and restore forests worldwide. Fight climate change, biodiversity loss and deforestation with your fingertips. - 2020
World Marathon Challenge - We run for those who cant. This 7 x 7 x7 Celebration of Health challenges two ultra-marathoners to run 7 Marathons in 7 Continents in 7 Days to raise funds and awareness for depression. - 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
Ovio revolutionizes pro-bono work for the tech industry and brings together social impact organizations, passionate people and companies to make skill-based volunteering easy and rewarding for all. -2019
Nepal Empowered works to empower the Men, Women and Children of Karki Gaun and support them to rebuild and improve their Quality of Life through literacy, housing and sustainable livelihood creation. - 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
De La Tierra is a partnership with the Kofan communities of the Amazonian region of Columbia & Ecuador, rooted in their resilient indigenous cultures in stewarding a strong, culturally intact, sovereign future. -2019
For Here, Please. helps small businesses connect more deeply with their customers and their community by transitioning to environmentally sustainable and humane business practices. *2019
SF Global Shapers is a community of young leaders committed to creating positive change in ourselves, our local community, and the world. An initiative of the World Economic Forum (WEF) and Empowerment Works. *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 micro-village 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
Regenerative Design for Change Makers applies patterns of the natural world to support the regenerative change movement; via holistic integration of personal self-care, professional growth, and resilient networks. '2018
Home Storytellers is a creative media initiative multiplying the impact of extraordinary organizations delivering solutions for Safer, Humane, and Orderly Migration. *2018
Family Cooperative Camp offers a nurturing, play-based environment designed to help kids become self-confident, self-aware, compassionate and empathetic human beings… and to have fun! - 2017
LittleUSA Solar Farm is creating community-based renewable electricity-- to power 400 homes, locally controlled wealth, and directly improve the job skills of local citizens facing barriers to entry in the workplace. - 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
Kick Butts Take Names is creating a community and culture of buttkicking: improving outcomes and changing the way the world sees and responds to tobacco, nicotine and freedom. *2014
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
Kick Butts Take Names is creating a community and culture of buttkicking: improving outcomes and changing the way the world sees and responds to tobacco, nicotine and freedom. *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
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
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
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 to governments, international organizations, NGOs, and the public at large. *2011
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
Past projects include:
- LOUD SPRING expands understanding of EcoFeminist values globally through art happenings. -2019
- The Enlight Collaborative - empowering youth as change-makers through collaboration. *2017
- Red Lightning - Gender alchemy in love and service to a better world at Red Rock City *2017
- Extinction Witness is a global arts project that supports compassionate life-ways. *2012 /2017
- Global Service Partnerships transforms educational challenges in Belize. *2014
- Qeyno Labs' social innovation, education and technology *2014
- Revision Ventures closes the wealth gap *2014
- Thousand Locks Charity public hair donation events *2013
- Construyendo Futuros empowers All Generations to make Healthy Relationships *2012
- Exponential Education self-multiplying scholarship & mentor-ship program. *2011
- 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 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 Earth Bench Movement (POEM) empowers youth & their communities worldwide - 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 documenary on Colony Collapse (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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