Empowerment Works

“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 is volunteer run 501(c)(3) not for profit charitable organization formed in 2012 whose 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.