We eliminate the strategic information gap
Between civil society and business
We eliminate the strategic information gap between civil society and business
Our Services
Strategic Research
We track power dynamics among companies, investors, decision-makers, and interest groups. We employ a follow-the-money methodology to map out who is funding what and how these actors are connected, and to identify vulnerabilities and opportunities for intervention.
Strategic Guidance
We help clients and partners understand research data and results, and use them in advocacy campaigns, litigation, strategic partnerships, collective organizing, and public pressure.
Training
We strengthen the internal capacities of organizations to conduct corporate research, power analysis, and accountability campaigns. We empower.
Issues
In addition to providing strategic corporate research, guidance, and training for clients and partners, Empower specializes in four issues that represent extreme challenges now and in the future for human rights defenders and civil society organizations as corporate accountability guarantors.
Corporate capture of the state
When private economic power influences laws, regulations, and institutions, the rules of the game are rigged. This permeates how we understand power relations and major problems in the world.
Private capital
Trillions of dollars in assets are moving from public markets into private funds, beyond our scrutiny. We track where they go, who benefits, and who pays the price of these transactions.
Climate crisis and energy transition
We track the companies and investors behind fossil fuels, and we expose projects marketed as "clean energy" but which are merely greenwashing.
Technology and Human Rights
We investigate how AI and Big Tech enable surveillance, social control, digital repression, and the vulnerability of personal data of human rights defenders and citizens in general.
Grave crimes and financial flows
We connect the dots of corporate finance to disappearances, massacres, and crimes against humanity. We help identify the masterminds and beneficiaries of these crimes.
Democratic economies
We contribute to the vision and strategies for building economies where people, not just capital, have power in the economy.
Social Commitment
At Empower we endeavor to follow our Social Commitment guidelines, including working with clients and partners that are aligned with them. Additionally, we commit to distribute the majority of our annual profits as philanthropic contributions to civil society organizations.