The Empower Program offers a platform for undergraduate and graduate students to engage in practical, experiential learning to complement their studies and make a positive social impact. Students will participate in internships, research, or projects of their own design. In addition, they will join a network at Tufts, which encourages collaboration, mentorship, and the promotion of social entrepreneurship on campus.

The objective of Empower is to help educate, mentor, guide and motivate future social entrepreneurs, defining social entrepreneurship as activities that benefit humankind.

The program is intentionally broad in scope to allow for innovative projects and research addressing the complexities of poverty in the world. The following bullet points set out Empower's set of near term and long term objectives:

• To help Tufts as it seeks to inspire, educate and prepare future social entrepreneurs and leaders, and future supporters of social entrepreneurship initiatives

• To increase awareness among Tufts' students of the world's poverty, one of the world's most pressing problems, and of initiatives and means to contribute toward its alleviation
• To increase awareness among Tufts students and faculty such that fields covered by Empower gradually become introduced within the university's curriculum and course offerings
• To facilitate experiences that enable students to become aware of our global community and, at that micro/individual level, contribute towards greater understanding and sympathy among cultures.