In the mid-1970's, feminist advocacy and self-help efforts paralleled legal advances and brought what had been a deeply hidden, shame- and guilt-inducing phenomenon to public attention.

In terms of self-help efforts, Umunya community, though small in size and population, has made significant achievements.

He helped governments set up community projects and organize self-help efforts for the poor.

While the civil rights groups have been supportive of black self-help efforts, they have long pushed for government initiatives that the judge considers destructive.

But we require no self-help efforts from tenants, though people who receive welfare in the form of cash assistance must now work or go to school.

The credit programs you cite are just a few of the self-help efforts the United Nations supports worldwide.

In economic development, the empowerment approach focuses on mobilizing the self-help efforts of the poor, rather than providing them with social welfare.

Most developmental projects in the community are actualized through self-help efforts mobilized by ODU leadership.

The group also inspired similar self-help efforts in other cities, including Boston.

It has evolved into an organization that supports self-help efforts by fledgling community groups, tenant and block associations and youth and religious agencies.