“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, what are you doing for others?” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.


Empowering The Poor believes that each of us can serve the poor. We offer several opportunities to empower poor communities locally and around the world. Any amount you donate, any minute of your precious time, and any skills you utilize to serve the poor matters. A gift as small as $5 goes a long way in saving lives, restoring hope, and empower people in poverty to self-reliance.

DONATE: online at www.empoweringthepoor.org, or mail in your check or money order at Empowering The Poor, Inc. P.O. BOX 42031. Fredericksburg, VA 22404.

  • Donate your used vehicles: Mini-vans, Vans, pick-up trucks, etc. We work in remote, rural, and impoverished communities where pick-up trucks and vans are desperately needed to serve the poor.
  • Donate laptops, desktops, printers, and other offices supplies for our staff in the U.S and around the around
  • Recurring monthly gift through our Empowering The Poor Blessing Hands Network.

All In-Kind and financial donations are tax-deductible. Help Empowering The Poor help the poor help themselves out of poverty with dignity.

JOIN our Board of Directors and Global Advisory Council: Utilize your GOD-given talents, skills, expertise, and passion to serve the poorest communities in the U.S and around the world. Together, we can make a real difference.

JOIN our Empowering The Poor Blessing Hands - You are invited to join the community of benefactors who provide the giving leadership that support ETP fundraising efforts and inspire others to act and stand for the poor. Empowering The Poor Blessing Hands provides individuals with the unique opportunity to join a like-minded and diverse group of individuals who serve the poor by giving monthly and annual sacrificial and leadership gifts to Empowering The Poor. They inspire other ordinary citizens to act and stand for the poor. Empowering The Poor Blessing Hands invites individuals from all walks of life to make a recurring monthly $5, $10, $100 or whatever amount of money they can afford to Empowering The Poor. Email coulibaly@empoweringthepoor.org for detailed information about ETP-Blessing Hands.

VOLUNTEER for one our annual events or divisions: Thanksgiving Festival, AIDS 5k Run/Walk, ETP Stomp Poverty 5k Run/Walk Fredericksburg, ETP Candlelight Gala Dinner; volunteer for one of projects and divisions. Donate your precious time and skills to serve the poor. If interested, please email coulibaly@empoweringthepoor.org

PARTNER with ETP: Empowering The Poor is humble and recognize that it will take a local and global partnership with faith-based organizations, private and public corporations, schools, and individuals from all walk of life to work hands in hands to empower the poor to break themselves the vicious cycle of poverty,
We offer substantive partnership opportunities with Faith-based organizations (churches, temples, etc.), corporations, Women groups, schools, colleges, clubs, etc.