PIE
FAQs - Frequently
Asked Questions
Why
multi-sector?
Like an eco-system, the
exchange capacity of complimentary local and global sectors
in mutually-supportive collaborations (doing what they already
do best) achieves greater results with minimal cost, yields
powerful added value to partners, and systemic change.
Is
the model working?
The social and economic
value of multi-sector collaboration has been increasingly
demonstrated by the US Agency for International Development
(USAID), The Foundation for Conscious Evolution, Buckminster
Fuller, the Clinton Global Initiative and other visionary
groups.
What's
so unique about PIE?
Rather than include issues
areas in the sectors, PIE empowers participants to identify
their own target issues and emphasizes people's (and org's)
ROLES based on what each has to contribute. These roles are
universal and can be applied to any challenge a community
or region faces.
Where
is government?
PIE invites government
agencies to serve along side civil society within all key
sectors, and serves as a tool for local self-governance, as
needed to meet community needs.
Why
six sectors?
A balance between the
generic three sector, "Private, Public, Civil society"
partnering, and the whole system 12 sector wheel of co-creation
pioneered by Barbara Marx Hubbard, the six Partners In Empowerment
(PIE) sectors are relevant to both villages and modern cities.
PIE offers a
simple organizing framework for collaboration between local
and global efforts.
Where
did the idea come from?
Engagement
of local Partners in Empowerment (PIE) was set forth as the
foundation (stage one) of EW's local asset based "7 Stages
to Sustainability" approach.
The overall
approach was developed to help local participants apply their
own local assets to address community identified issues in
diverse parts of the world-- AIDS in Zimbabwe and biodiversity
in Senegal.
How
does PIE promote social change?
First, by facilitating collaborative
action in "7 Stages to Sustainability" and The Global
Summit, PIE is an outcomes-based community development tool,
completing Empowerment Works holistic program system.
It is also a powerful tool for social transformation--and
remembering.
Although much of the past 10,000 years
of human history has been defined by scarcity-driven competition,
collaboration has actually enabled our species to evolve over
the millennium. It is ingrained in our DNA.
In reclaiming our sustainable patterns
of ecological inter-dependence -while capitalizing upon leading
edge advances in science and appropriate technology- PIE fosters
a new era of human consciousness.
Based upon the proven virtues of adaptive, whole system Complexity
Science, the PIE network acheives Buckminster Fuller's trimta
priciples of doing the most with the least resources. It's
synergistic design offers participants an experience in interdependence.
As the PIE network grows -and thus diversifies- it models
a healthy social ecosystem and promises humanity a catalytic
forum to create mutually-supportive sustainability.
Together
We Can.
EW's
multi-sector collaboration workshop for individuals, non-profits,
businesses.
