Empowered.org Information

Empowered.org provides low cost online group fundraising and supporter management software for global socially-minded organizations looking to scale. Mission-based organizations that depend on commitments from decentralized groups of supporters (volunteers and donors) to further their impact, struggle with maintaining these relationships at a low cost when trying to scale their operations. Global Brigades, or GB, the worlds largest student-led health and sustainable development movement, ran into this problem back in 2010. They created Empowered.org as the online platform to help them easily fundraise and track large amounts of money for projects and airfare by their groups of supporters without spending thousands of dollars in administrative overhead. For the past 4 years, Empowered.org has been the driving technology behind doubling its volunteer and donation base, saving 150,000 in processing fees, and over $800,000 in administrative costs. Not to mention, has allowed them to bring its 10 skill-based community programs to 2 new project countries, and 3 new participating countries, and as of 2014 has allowed GB to sustainably exit 4 communities. Empowered.org provides a low-cost suite of online tools for group-based organizations to easily mobilize their supporters so they can focus on what matters most - furthering their mission and scaling their impact. Empowered allows organizations to empower small groups of passionate supporters to take ownership of their impact, by reaching out to their own personal networks, and activating greater networks to grow the organizations. Decentralizing the ask, but centralizing the funds raised, and making individuals accountable for their impact.