Empowerment

NM & Associates Planners and Designers (registered as Vision Plan CC CK 96/63098/23) is:

100% black owned
70% female staffed
70% black staffed

The company offers the following to address the imbalances of the past in South Africa:

• Assistance and mentorship to Black planning and design students studying at Cape Technikon and UCT
• Development and project management advice to emerging consultants entering the development market for the first time
• Development facilitation to deprived communities at low cost
• Gender planning advice to persons developing centres for women, children and the disabled (both men and women)
• 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 and positive development of people and communities in the planning and design environment. NM & Associates do not knowingly associate with companies and/or individuals that 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.