“Give someone a fish and you feed them for a day. Teach them to fish and you feed them for a lifetime.” – Maimonides
Empowerment Works’ mission is to empower the lives of residents of the Fort Myers Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Corridor through economic change. We believe economic empowerment is best achieved through the creation of careers. We believe that those in need can be most effectively helped by assisting them to become self sufficient. Achieving a career is an individual’s best path toward self sufficiency.
In a 2014 Forbes article, Steve Denning writes about studies performed by the Kauffman Foundation and the Institute for Competitiveness & Prosperity that found that over a 25 year period, almost all of the private sector net new jobs were created by businesses that were less than five years old. Companies that were more than five years old, large or small, generally destroyed more jobs than they created in all but 8 of the 25 years.
Since most net job growth is derived from new companies, Empowerment Works approach to job and career creation has evolved into a two prong approach; promoting, mentoring and teaching entrepreneurship to individuals who own or are considering their own businesses, and assisting individuals to gain new skills for new careers.
Help us to bring economic empowerment to the Fort Myers Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Corridor.