Empower Co. connects women doing powerful work with buyers committed to a net-positive future.
Women are the key to solving the most urgent crises facing humanity today — from climate change to food insecurity. Yet less than 2% of U.S. charitable giving goes to organizations dedicated to serving women and girls, and global figures are equally dismal.
Empower Co. was founded on the principle that a market-based approach is essential to catalyze and scale women’s empowerment, to ensure a better future for all.
Empower Co. is building the first global voluntary market for women’s empowerment as measured by the W+ Standard — leading the way for companies that have evolved beyond offsetting negative impact, and are choosing to invest in women-led, net-positive ‘onsets’.
Our Work
Empower Co. represents women’s empowerment projects that have a quantifiable impact on the lives of women, as measured and verified by the W+ Standard.
Empower Co. connects projects with mission-aligned buyers, and helps project developers scale their impact on the lives of women. Through Empower Co.’s unique profit-sharing requirement, at least 25% of proceeds from the sale of W+ units go directly back to the women, who have complete control over these new financial resources. The remaining proceeds go to the organization implementing the women’s empowerment activities, to scale the breadth and depth of impact.
Empower Co. also provides consulting services for companies looking to build more effective social impact strategies, enabling them to better assess and integrate their gender impacts.