Partners in Empowerment

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.

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.

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

Following the EW 7 Stage Approach, PIE harnesses the expertise and resources of this ecologically inspired participatory network to promote community-based solutions.

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

Now, through The Global Summit 2008 EW is activating the official "PIE membership Forum" and multi-sector collaboration framework.

To advance The Global Summit programming, and sector specific "Proclamations", empowering each member to collaborate at their highest potential, EW has developed a comprehensive base-line evaluation and input survey.

1pie.org

To catalyze PIE collaboration, and channel outcomes of The Global Summit into local action, EW is developing the 1pie.org online portal with like-minded Information & Communication Technology (ICT) visionaries.

The 1pie.org portal will be a virtual mirror of The Global Summit and most importantly, will harness the power of communications technology to create global grass-roots access to it.

1pie.org will empower members via:

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

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

3. Online Eco-Mall fueling PIE community initiatives;

4. Appropriate technology database supporting transfer to local program areas & partners;

5. Program Collaboration tools supporting local needs assessments & facilitating Private, Public & Voluntary participation for greater 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.