Corporate and Non-Profit Clients

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ABC Television

Aerosmith, Inc.

American Express

A T & T

Best Buy

Bull

Ciba Geigy

Coca Cola

Costco

Cray Research

Deloitte

Earth Day International

Garrison Institute

Honeywell

Jaycees International

Junior League

Lake Placid Olympic Organizing Committee

NBC Television

NY Times Knowledge Network

Nike

Ohio State University

Omega Institute

Rotary International

Shell

Society for College and University Planning

Sterling Publishing

Target

Unilever

University of Pennsylvania

University of Wisconsin

Whole Foods Markets

World Bank

Women for Women International

Josie Maran Cosmetics

Public Sector and Utility Clients

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- Arlington County, VA
- Bend City Water Department, OR
- Chattanooga-Hamilton County Air Pollution Control Agency, TN
- Chattanooga Area Regional Transit Authority, TN
- City of Chattanooga Department of Public Works, TN
- City of Columbus Health Department, OH
- City of Harrisburg, PA
- City of Issaquah Resource Conservation Office, WA
- City of Kansas City Department of Environmental Management, MO
- City of Los Angeles
- City of Madison Recycling Office, WI
- City of Minneapolis, MN
- City of Palo Alto
- City of Portland Bureau of Environmental Services, OR
- City of Portland Department of Transportation, OR
- City of Portland Water Bureau, OR
- City of Portland Energy Office, OR
- City of Portland Office of Sustainable Development, OR
- City of Philadelphia Municipal Energy Office, PA
- City of Philadelphia Water Department, PA
- City of Philadelphia Department of Streets Recycling, PA
- City of Philadelphia Department of Public Health, PA
- City of San Francisco
- Dane County Solid Waste Management Authority, WI
- Deschutes County Solid Waste Department, OR
- Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
- King County Solid Waste Division, WA
- King County Waste Water Treatment Division, WA
- King County Water and Land Resources Division, WA
- Madison Gas and Electric, WI
- Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District, WI
- Madison Metro, WI
- Maine Office of Economic Development
- Mid-America Regional Council, MO
- New York City Dept of Information Technology and Telecommunications
- New York City Office of Emergency Management
- New York State Department of Transportation
- Oregon Department of Energy
- Oregon Department of Environmental Quality
- Oregon Department of Transportation
- PacifiCorp (Electric Utility Company), OR
- Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development
- Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
- Puget Sound Air Pollution Control Agency, WA
- Rockland County Solid Waste Management Authority, NY
- Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio
- Town of Worthington, OH
- Town of Highland, NY
- United Nations Environment Programme
- United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
- United Water
- U.S. Department of Energy — Center for Excellence in Sustainable Development
- U.S. Department of Justice
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency — Region III
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency — Global Climate Change Division
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency — Environmental Justice Program
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency — Office of Mobile Sources
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency — Urban and Economic Development Division
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency — Office of Environmental Education
- Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation
- White House Office of Sustainable Development

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A Brief History of Empowerment Institute

In 1981 David Gershon and Gail Straub founded Empowerment Institute to explore the question: how do you empower people to grow and realize their full potential? They wanted to shift the focus from fixing problems and healing the past, to focusing on what we want for our lives, our organizations, our communities, and our world – and how to achieve it. Enabling people to envision and realize their dreams was the approach they called “empowerment.” The term “empowerment” was new in the vernacular of transformation, as was their approach. This transformative social innovation soon began attracting attention.

People came to learn about empowerment for themselves, their organizations, their communities, and their causes. They came from all over North America, Europe and Latin America, but also from Afghanistan, Darfur, Rwanda, South Africa, China, Russia, and India.

About Gail Straub

GailStraub 200 Gail Straub, co-founder and Executive Director of Empowerment Institute, is one of the world’s leading authorities on women’s empowerment. As part of this focus, she co-founded IMAGINE: A Global Initiative for the Empowerment of Women to help women heal from violence, build strong lives, and contribute to their community. This initiative applies the Institute’s empowerment methodology to the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goal “to promote gender equality and empower women.” IMAGINE initiatives are under way in Afghanistan, Brazil, India, Jordan Kenya, Nigeria, Sudan and South Africa.