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EMpower - The Emerging Markets Foundation

Partner with organisations to enable young people to transform their lives and communities

LocationChina - Hong Kong SAR

Issue AreaEducation

Tax benefit eligibilityAU

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Our Mission

EMpower partners with local organisations in emerging market countries, and other change-makers, to enable marginalised young people to transform their lives and communities.

The Need

Marginalized young people lack resources, meaningful choices, and opportunities. Their perspectives are seldom sought or their voices heard. Local organizations that work with marginalized young people—and have the knowledge and solutions needed to break cycles of disadvantage—also are under-funded.

The Solution

EMpower provides flexible grants to local organizations, focused on economic wellbeing, inclusive learning, and safe, healthy lives for marginalized young people. EMpower also fosters the organizational capacity, skills, and sustainability of our grantee partners with tailored support.

Our Impact

In FY2023, EMpower awarded $6.1 million in 126 grants. Their work directly affected the lives of 99,000 young people. Since our inception in 2000, EMpower has awarded more than $50 million in grants to nearly 400 organisations and has directly impacted the lives of more than 1 million young people.

To help young people successfully transition to adulthood, we invest in programmes that expand opportunities so they can learn, lead safe and healthy lives, and access local economies and markets.

Economic well-being embraces the principles of access to decent, dignified, and safe work at fair wages, and knowledge and ability to make and implement decisions on financial and other resources. We support local organisations that enable young people to build assets and a range of knowledge-based, technical, practical, and social skills; and to have primary decision-making power over their economic resources.

Safe, Healthy Lives – We aim to ensure that young people, and adolescent girls and young women in particular, have access to integrated sexual and reproductive health information and services. Young people should understand and be able to exercise their sexual and reproductive rights—free of coercion, discrimination, and violence.

Inclusive learning – We support local solutions that aim to address the need for safe, inclusive (on and offline) environments that nurture learning for all, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, migration, ethnicity, caste, religion, or disability status.

Thanks to EMpower’s committed Board Directors and the Leadership Council, who finance the operational and fundraising costs, 100% of your donations go directly to empowering young people.

About this Organization

LocationChina - Hong Kong SAR
Issue AreaEducation

About Myriad Australia

Myriad Australia (previously known as Give2Asia Australia) is a trusted partner for international philanthropy and the leader in donor-advised giving to the Asia-Pacific. Our mission is to strengthen communities around the world by making cross-border giving easier and more effective.

Myriad Australia leverages the strengths of Myriad, the Alliance for borderless giving, and its members to improve the lives of people around the world.

Tax Benefit Eligibility

Gift acknowledgments and tax receipts can only be issued by Myriad Australia Limited. Donations cannot be refunded once an acknowledgment has been issued. If you have any questions, contact us before making your donation.