What is EMpower?

What Are Emerging Market Countries?

What Makes EMpower Unique?

Meet our Supporters

EMpower Staff

What is EMpower?

EMpower - The Emerging Markets Foundation is a not-for-profit organization that ties the resources of Emerging Markets professionals world-wide with the vitality of community-based social sector initiatives in developing countries.

EMpower's mission is to provide disadvantaged young people in EM countries with the resources, skills, mentorship and opportunities to improve their lives and in turn help better their families, communities, and the world around them.

We believe that young people

  • are the key to progress and stability in EM countries
  • deserve the opportunity to achieve their greatest potential
  • given the right tools, will succeed in improving their lives and the lives of those around them, generation after generation

We also believe that cross sector partnerships are mutually beneficial for both the private and public sector and allow for an enriching exchange of perspectives and skills. To this end, EMpower strives to raise the level of awareness, involvement and investment of the EM community in philanthropy and specifically in strategies for development of healthier civil societies in the developing world.

Since its inception in 2000, EMpower has had a strong group of core supporters who have served as its Board and Underwriters.

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What is an Emerging Market Country?

The term Emerging Market country commonly refers to industrializing or emerging regions of the world. Countries in these regions are considered to be in a transitional phase between developing and developed with an economy with low or middle per capita income. Emerging markets constitute about 80% of the world's population, representing about 20% of the world's economies.

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What Makes EMpower Unique?

  • Concentration on emerging market countries - at a time when many other funders are leaving to work in less developed countries
  • Focus on young people and the four critical building blocks for their future -- education, health, economic opportunities and leadership
  • EMpower values donor input and engages them in decisions about grants and in dialogue with grantee partners about the issues they face and their solutions.
  • Streamlined, transparent, and highly cost-effective grant making model and we give 100% of funds raised from individuals to our grantee partners.

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Meet our Supporters

EMpower would like to recognize all of the individuals and institutions that have made its work possible through their generous contributions and involvement in EMpower's organizational development.

EMpower connects the emerging markets community with innovative grassroots organizations enabling young people to lead healthy, productive lives.

Learn what you can do to join this community and give back to the development of the social sector in emerging markets countries.
US Underwriters

Barclays Capital

Rob Citrone, Discovery Capital

Tom Cooper and George Estes, GMO

Credit Suisse - Emerging Markets Group

Fixed Income CUrrencies and Commodities, Emerging Markets Group, Citi

Debt Advisory International

Dolomite Capital Management

Moctar Fall, JPMorgan

Gramercy Advisors

Greylock Capital

Chris and Sandy Hessler

JPMorgan Chase Foundation

LyonRoss Capital Management

Joe Mullally, DiMaio Ahmad Capital

Pyrenees Capital

The Rohatyn Group

TPCG Valores

UFG Asset Management

Upender Rao, Old Lane

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UK Underwriters

Jonathan Bayliss, Metage Capital

Credit Suisse EM London

Deutsche Bank

Finisterre Capital

Nikos Makris, BlueCrest Capital

Merrill Lynch

Renaissance Capital

Spinnaker Capital

Simon Treacher, BlueBay Asset Management
US Board of Directors

Pedro Beroy, Credit Suisse

Marta Cabrera, EMpower

Joyce Chang, JP Morgan Securities

Peter Clark, The Rohatyn Group

George Estes, Grantham, Mayo &Van Otterloo

Beth Fredrick, International Women's Health Coalition

Michael Hirschhorn, Coro New York

Raj Keswani, Dolomite Capital

Robert Koenigsberger, Gramercy Advisers

Robert Kushen, Harvard University

Guido Mosca, The Rohatyn Group

Piers Playfair, LyonRoss Capital Management

Michael Seltzer, Independent Consultant

Lucia Skwarek, Greylock Capital

Sue Waterbury, Harris Rand Lusk

Bradley Wickens, Spinnaker Capital

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UK Board of Directors

Jonathan Bayliss, Metage Capital

Marta Cabrera, EMpower

Joel Esciua, Renaissance Capital

Khadijah Fancy, CAMFED

Kay Haigh, Deutsche Bank

Philip Hamilton, Merrill Lynch

Ram Nayak, Credit Suisse

Chris Rocker, Private Investor

Simon Treacher, BlueBay Asset Management

Brad Wickens, Spinnaker Capital

Helene Williamson, Foreign & Colonial Asset Management
Advisory Council

Maya Ajmera, Global Fund for Children

Susan Davis, Grameen Bank Foundation USA

Nicolas de Torrente, Doctors w/o Borders

William Drayton, Ashoka

Dr Jacques Homsy, THETA

Ruth Messinger, AJWS

Carolyn Stremlau, Banyan Tree Foundation

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EMpower Staff

Marta Cabrera, Executive Director

Virginia Dooley, Grants and Fundraising Associate

Jacqueline Dorante, Director of Development

Julian Liu, Program Officer

Andrea Lynch, Program Officer Latin America

Erin Shinneman, Communications and Operations Associate

  • eshinneman <at> empowerweb.org

Cynthia Steele, Executive Vice President

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