Empower provides the following services to female entrepreneurs:
1. Competitive Analysis
4. Business writing services including reports, news releases, PR articles
Empower provides the following services to charities/non-profits and social enterprises.
1. Grant writing services
3. Fund-raising outside Grants and Foundations
4. General Business Development
Empower is founded by Deepali Nangia. D
eepali, originally from Calcutta, India, graduated Summa Cum Laude with an undergraduate degree from the University of Rochester with a major in Economics and minor in Information Systems (1996). Deepali was also one of three students to be accepted into the University's masters program and graduated with an MBA in Finance from the William E. Simon School of Business Administration. While at Rochester, Deepali was awarded the Barry Rappoport Prize for Excellence in Economics and was an honorary member of many academic honor societies such as Omicron Delta Epsilon and the Golden Key National Honor Society. Post University, Deepali started her career as a banker on Wall Street at Salomon Smith Barney Citigroup and subsequently went on to work in principal investing at private equity houses such as GE Equity and Stonepoint Capital. While in principal investing, she evaluated several business opportunities in the financial services and financial technology space. She moved to Marsh McLennan as Project Manager, Operations for their India back-office and then held various positions in Strategy, Product Development and Operations at Marsh and Aon. Deepali was co-founder of Tiny Feet, Giant Leaps, a mother and child activity center in India. She has also evaluated several other business ideas both in London and in India. Under the auspices of the Nangia Foundation, Empower also does pro bono work for women who cannot avail of our services. Deepali is also on the panel of mentors for the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women.
