Approach to Empowerment
NM & Associates Planners and Designers are:
- 100% female owned
- 70% black owned
- 60% female staffed
- 60% black staffed
The company offers the following to address the imbalances of the past South Africa.
- Assistance and mentorship to Black planning and design students studying at Cape Peninsula University of Technology and the University of Cape Town
- Development and project management advice to emerging consultants entering the development market for the first time
- Development facilitation to deprived communties at low cost
- Planning advice to persons developing centres for healing women, men and children and the disabled
- Bursaries to Black students
- In-service training to Black students
- Career advancement sponsorship to Black staff
- Organization development processes that would advance, empower and provide confidence to persons put down in the past
- Community development assistance to deprived communities, organizations and persons promoting holism in society
- The company engages and encourages relationships with companies and individuals that have a changing consciousness and do not only pay lip service to change
- NM & Associates do not knowingly associate with companies and/or individuals who do not subscribe to the ethics of honesty, integrity, equality and transparency whether these are persons of colour or not
- The company is willing to associate with White persons and/or companies who subscribe to the same ethics and principles.