Mission/ Overview
The Global Summit™ (TGS) is much more than an event. It is the catalyst for year-round collaboration of citizens, businesses and organizations working together to co-create a sustainable future.
Applying advances in communications to empower new voices to be heard, The Global Summit unites the most powerful and grass-roots change makers to catalyze local action and share what works best to advance sustainable solutions from the ground up.
Launched Nov. 16-18, 2008 in San Francisco as a 3 day planning symposium The Global Summit is a for-impact initiative led by nonprofit organization, Empowerment WORKS, with all proceeds supporting sustainable development education, tools and locally-led projects.
Through its biennial meeting, local partner Summits, and year-round on & offline collaboration, The Global Summit delivers a whole-system approach to sustainable, social, economic & environmental change.
Primary Objectives & Measurable Results
1. Empower underrepresented voices to be heard in shaping the global solutions to the issues that affect them most. HOW: Through online & hands-on collaboration forums applying advances in conflict mediation and information technology for transparent, equitable and measurable results.
2. Reduce duplication & increase collective impact to to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. How: Through engaging the private sector and investing a broader array of untapped resources into locally-led sustainable community development, supported by best-practice education & online collaboration systems.
3. Catalyze immediate climate change solutions and protect biodiversity. HOW: A. Reduce methane and global warming gases via providing a transparent platform for evidence-based debate with global reach. B. Dissemination of greener, cleaner and more grass-roots friendly technologies, linking innovation & investors.
YEAR-ROUND IMPACT
Beyond its series of events, The Global Summit™ impact is advanced by a participatory network of Partners In Empowerment (PIE) and shared resource platform called 1PIE. Hosted on TGS & partner sites, 1PIE will serve as the follow up plan, reinforcing commitments made at TGS and facilitating participant collaboration in locally-led social, economic and environmental programs across the globe, 365 days a year.
Vision 2020 & Beyond
FRONT LINE PARTICIPATION: TGS is devoted to granting maximum access to global citizens in communities most affected by the issues addressed. You can help by supporting scholarship programs.
GLOBAL BIENNIALS: While it developed program elements in the USA 2008 & 2010, The Global Summit is dedicated to going and remaining global -- prepping for London 2012, it seeks Local Host Partners in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Europe, Oceania, South America where it will be held every other year.
VIRTUALLY NO FOOTRINT: TGS is building a highly interactive online collaboration system to enable virtual participation with telepresencing centers, online/web, & telephone/ text voting.
Forming a synergistic philanthropic partnership, The Global Summit is helping build and engage partners in Empowerment WORKS' "Synergy Fund" which rewards global participation in '7 Stages to Sustainability'. Registrants of The Global Summit and online students of '7 Stages to Sustainability' trainings will be eligible for Synergy Grants. By advancing a common language for collaboration, the Synergy Fund reduces duplication and increases collective impact. To build critical mass, donors sharing its values are invited to align with Synergy Fund criteria.
**When you participate in The Global Summit™, you take the first step in creating a more sustainable world.
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