The mosque has a very strategic function in the Islamic community both as a place of worship and a media center for fostering people in a holistic manner. This paper describes the optimization of mosque functions as a center of community empowerment activities and the factors that influence it. The research method uses qualitative descriptive methods through interviews, field notes, and documentation. The place of research is at-Taqwa Cirebon Grand Mosque. The results showed that the At-Taqwa Cirebon Grand Mosque represented a mosque that was able to revive the spirit of the community empowerment movement in the spiritual, economic, educational, social, and cultural arts development fields. The success of mosque-based community empowerment activities at At-Taqwa Grand Mosque is supported by adequate human resources reflected in the ideal organizational structure of the mosque's board of directors and supported by effective communication skills of the da'is. This study recommends the importance of mosque management professionalism and the importance of managing effective communication with both congregations and other stakeholders. This study enriches the study of the development of Islamic societies, especially in mosque-based community empowerment.Masjid memiliki fungsi yang sangat strategis dalam masyarakat Islam baik sebagai tempat ibadah maupun pusat media pembinaan umat secara holistik. Tulisan ini menggambarkan optimalisasi fungsi masjid sebagai pusat kegiatan pemberdayaan masyarakat dan faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhinya di dalamnya. Metode penelitian menggunakan metode deskriptif kualitatif melalui wawancara, catatan lapangan, dan dokumentasi. Tempat penelitian adalah Masjid Raya at-Taqwa Cirebon. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa Masjid Raya At- Taqwa Cirebon merepresentasikan masjid yang mampu menghidupkan semangat gerakan pemberdayaan masyarakat dalam bidang spiritual keagamaan, ekonomi, pendidikan, sosial kemasyarakatan, dan pengembangan seni budaya. Keberhasilan kegiatan pemberdayaan masyarakat berbasis masjid di Masjid raya at-Taqwa didukung oleh sumber daya manusia yang memadai yang tergambar dalam struktur organisasi dewan pengurus masjid yang ideal serta ditunjang kemampuan komunikasi efektif dari para da’i. Penelitian ini merekomendasikan pentingnya profesionalisme pengelolaan masjid dan pentingnya mengelola komunikasi yang efektif baik dengan jemaah maupun stakeholders yang lain. Penelitian ini memperkaya kajian tentang pengembangan masyarakat Islam khususnya dalam pemberdayaan masyarakat berbasis masjid.

This study aims to analyze the role of LMDH in improving public welfare through natural tourism to determine the norms established by LMDH, find out the forms of public participation, and the results of LMDH empowerment in improving welfare through natural tourism. This research is qualitative research using the descriptive method. The techniques used in this research are observation, interview, and documentation techniques. Data analysis was carried out by reducing data and interpreting logic connected to the context of public empowerment. The results showed that public empowerment, which has been done by LMDH through natural tourism, was strengthening human resources and developing natural resources. The strengthening of human resources with the provision of administrative materials, technical materials, and motivation to have skills and natural resource development. The empowerment results include the emergence of awareness to develop existing potential, increase public income, open business opportunities, and carry out social activities well.

Increased AHH accompanied by an increase in the elderly population. It is feared to bring impact on socio-economic conditions of the country. The phenomenon must look for a solution, the one with the empowerment program for seniors. UNIT for The Social Rehabilitation and Elderly West Java is one of the Government agencies that become facilitators in the empowerment of the elderly. The goal in this research to know the process of empowerment and continuity in the program of empowerment. Peneltian is done based on the qualitative method through a descriptive approach. The theory in this research is the theory of Hogan that saw that the process of empowerment is a process that goes on all human life derived from individual experience, instead of a process that stops at a time only. The results in this study is granting the empowerment program in the form of skills training where in the process conducted during twice a week and training conducted by a competent instructor, it is aimed so that the creation of the elderly independent work, and quality.

BILC(Bumi Inspirasi Learning Center)  is an environmental-related institution. This research is to find out the problems, namely (1) How the Earth Inspiration program in educating environmental health (2) How the Earth Inspiration efforts in educating environmental health and (3) How are the results felt by the community with the Bumi Inspiration bank in educating environmental health.  This research is to find out the problems, namely (1) How is the BILC program in educating environmental health (2) How is BILC's effort in educating environmental health and (3) How are the results felt by the community with the presence of BILC in educating environmental health. The method used in this study is a qualitative method. From the results of the study found that; (1) BILC programs relating to environmental health, one of which is the waste bank. With the program carried out, namely the garbage bank, financial literacy and the Al- Qur'an Education.