Employment Equity also forms part of a company's Black Economic Empowerment scorecard: in a relatively complex scoring system, which allows for some flexibility in the manner in which each company meets its legal commitments, each company is required to meet minimum requirements in terms of representation by previously disadvantaged groups.

Empowerment of women, also called gender empowerment, has become a significant topic of discussion in regards to development and economics.

Empowerment may also have a negative impact on individuals, corporations and productivity depending on an individuals views and goals.

* National Empowerment Television, a defunct politically conservative cable network from the 1990s, also called America's Voice

* the Agreement on Preparatory Transfer of Powers and Responsibilities Between Israel and the PLO at Erez Crossing of 29 August 1994, also known as the Early Empowerment Agreement

She cites the popularity that the town also holds with the growing black middle-class " Empowerment kugels don't hang out in Soweto ; they do lunch in Sandton " and quotes columnist Therese Owen's advice to former TV-personality Kedibone, " Now that you're no longer wanted as a continuity presenter on SABC1, go hang out in Sandton and catch yourself a BEE boy.

Dr. Ghani is also a member of the Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor, an independent initiative hosted by the UNDP.

The College also operates several external programs and associated centers such as Male Development and Empowerment Center, Center for Women's Development, Center for Black Literature, and The DuBois Bunche Center for Public Policy.

The area is also home to a significant South African community, composed predominantly of young white immigrants who have left South Africa, for reasons of employment, career experience, money and travel, since finding employment at home became harder ( following the introduction of Black Economic Empowerment ).

The title, in shorter form " Kenting Tai Situpa "; or " Tai Situ ", means " far reaching, unshakable, great master, holder of the command ", the Emperor also conferred on Kenting Tai Situpa the titles " The Empowerment Master with Perfection, Magic, Subtle and Compassion ".

Johnson was also member of the High Level Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor led by Madeleine Albright, and has served as a member of the Oxford University Taskforce on UK Energy, Development Assistance and Foreign Policy, led by Sir Chris Patten.

Around the world, many Rotaract clubs are also involved with providing direct community service projects, for example, the Launchpad for youth from a group home in Valletta, Malta, which allows the boys to become independent, Habitat for Humanity in California, reaching out to help poor young children for " Children's Empowerment Week " in Birmingham, Alabama, and America's Second Harvest in Kansas, amongst many other good works.

They also had agreements to air programming from an upstart conservative network NET ( National Empowerment Television ) run by Paul Weyrich.

This newest release of the Codes is also known as Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment or B-BBEE

Owens was also a long-time member of Central Brooklyn's Coalition for Community Empowerment.

Siddiki also conducts Financial Empowerment Seminars that have caused financial breakthroughs in the Church, and taken them to the next level.

Old Mutual also announced its Black Economic Empowerment deal in Namibia.

Empowerment includes the following, or similar, capabilities :-

Rappaport's ( 1984 ) definition includes: " Empowerment is viewed as a process: the mechanism by which people, organizations, and communities gain mastery over their lives.

# Empowerment Vest authority, perform functions, and use resources in the smallest or most local part that includes all relevant and affected parties.

This includes legalizing prostitution, start a Sex Worker Empowerment Program to counsel and educate sex workers, reserve areas on public parks and beaches for nudists, allow for sexually explicit private gatherings, ( uncensored ) films, and entertainment, repealing provisions that allow municipalities to prohibit the sale of sex toys.

The programs in service-learning include Community Advocates for Parents and Students ; Helping Youth through Personal Empowerment ; Academic Mentorship In Giants On-going Success ; the Woodward School ; Keeping the Doors Open ; and Farms to K.

The Rio Grande Valley Empowerment Zone, a 10-year program that ended in 2004, allocated over $ 40 million and attracted over $ 365 million in other funding for small business development, utility infrastructure and educational initiatives in South Texas.

* SOCM, or Statewide Organization for Community Empowerment ( formerly known as Save Our Cumberland Mountains ), a grassroots group trying to ban mountain top removal mining and bring green Jobs to Tennessee, had its offices in Lake City for several years.

Empowerment is then the process of obtaining these basic opportunities for marginalized people, either directly by those people, or through the help of non-marginalized others who share their own access to these opportunities.

* The Empowerment Manual: A Guide for Collaborative Groups ( 2011 )

Boundaries of Home: Mapping for Local Empowerment.

* United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women ( UN Women )

These organizations include the NY Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines, League of Filipino Students in San Francisco State University, Anakbayan ( New York / New Jersey, Los Angeles, San Diego, Honolulu, East Bay and Seattle ), the Critical Filipino / Filipina Studies Collective, Habi Ng Kalinangan, babaeSF ( San Francisco ), Pinay Sa Seattle, and Filipinas for Rights and Empowerment ( FiRE ).

In the run-up to the June 6, 2006, primary elections in his home state, Camejo helped create Green IDEA ( later known as IDEA PAC ), a California political action committee espousing " Independence, Democracy, Empowerment, and Accountability ," to support candidates for county councils, the locally elected leadership bodies of the Green Party of California.

* Urban Partnership for Sustainable Upliftment, Renewal, Governance & Empowerment

Supporters of the ' Green Empowerment ' campaign for a no vote in the leadership referendum include the then Male Principal Speaker Dr. Derek Wall, Cllr.

The university now sponsors a wide range of student organizations, including BSU, the DePaul Conservative Alliance, DePaul Irish Society, the DePaul Alliance for Latino Empowerment, United Muslims Moving Ahead, Hillel, the Asian Cultural Exchange, the Hellenic-American Student Association and the Activist Student Union.

Empowerment evaluation is value oriented towards getting program participants involved in bringing about change in the programs they are targeted for.

*" Technology for Local Empowerment ," Third Global Forum on Telecentres Daniel Ben-Horin opening remarks at conference in Santiago, Chile, April 5, 2011

One definition for the term is " an intentional, ongoing process centered in the local community, involving mutual respect, critical reflection, caring, and group participation, through which people lacking an equal share of resources gain greater access to and control over those resources " ( Cornell Empowerment Group ).

Whilst in California, Franks developed the idea of SEED, an acronym for Sustainable Enterprise and Empowerment Dynamics, as a model for using principles of femininity, sustainability and social responsibility in business.

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act was not part of the original Senate legislation, but was added in conference with the House, where it had been separately introduced by Representatives Christopher Cox ( R-CA ) and Ron Wyden ( D-OR ) as the Internet Freedom and Family Empowerment Act and passed by a near-unanimous vote on the floor.

PASSIA ’ s educational and training seminars are divided into two categories: In ­ ternational Affairs – including seminars on Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution, Strategic Studies and Security, the EU, Education on Democ ­ racy, The Foreign Policies of Arab States, Japan and the Middle East, and The United States and Canada: Political Systems, Policy-Making and the Middle East – and Civil Society Empowerment, with seminars held to date including those on Policy-Making, Strategic Planning & Media & Com ­ munication Skills.

Empowerment as a methodology is often associated with feminism: see consciousness-raising.

Empowerment of employees in the work place provides them with opportunities to make their own decisions with regards to their tasks.

She currently coordinates a not-for-profit community development organisation based in Dungannon, the South Tyrone Empowerment Programme, and works with migrant workers to improve their treatment in Northern Ireland.

Dr. Jamal Harrison Bryant ( 1971-) Dr. Bryant founded Empowerment Temple AME in 2000 with a congregation of 43 people.

In 2009, IPM launched a project SREE ( Support, Rehabilitation Education Empowerment ) in collaboration with the Calicut city police in order to help terminally ill patients.

The organization and its founder, Mattie C. Butler, have been honored with local and national awards including the 1989 Petra Foundation Award and the 2008 Community Empowerment Advocate of the Year Award.

Empowerment, initiation, intention and endeavour may leaven capacity and propensity as may a graceful benediction of a person ( in the sense of mindstream ), object or place endowed or invested with holiness.

Empowerment evaluation as a process which is facilitated by a skilled evaluator equips and empowers participants by providing them with a way of critically thinking and reflecting on programs.

Federline dropped out of high school in the ninth grade and soon started dancing with a nonprofit organization called Dance Empowerment.

As part of the effort by some chapters to stay afloat by severing ties with the national organization, California ACORN changed its name to Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, New York ACORN renamed itself New York Communities for Change, and an offshoot of the ACORN organization called Acorn Housing changed its name to Affordable Housing Centers of America yet has retained the same tax and employee identification numbers that it held under its former name.

He joined “ The War on Poverty ” and he worked with Black and Puerto Rican Empowerment Groups, being strongly orientated towards free thinking and community-based capitalism, rather than Marxism or Communism.

* G. R. Geyer, Empowerment of the Laity with the Charismata for Renewal in a Traditional Congregation ( Rochester, New York: Crozer Theological Seminary, 1983 ).

MRAP began funded projects of direct action with community organizations in 1997 after several months of collaborative planning with the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute's Empowerment and Change Project ( MLRI ).

Patricia Hill Collins is credited with introducing the theory in her work entitled Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment.

SHE Foundation ( Self Help & Empowerment ) works with women and children trapped in the commercial sex trade in Phuket Thailand.

The Homeless Empowerment Project is a 501 ( c )( 3 ) not-for-profit corporation registered in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, with an annual budget in 2012 of $ 130, 000 and six staff members, all part-time.

* Homeless Empowerment Project, Inc. – filings with Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts