If you want to enter into a serious relationship to solve significant community problems and achieve major goals to help others, becoming an affiliate is your best choice. Together we will identify one or more specific problems/goals which can have a meaningful impact on the world we live in. Together we will set one goal and develop an action plan. In time we may set many goals, but at the beginning it is probably best to set one only.

      The cost to establish an affiliate relationship is established as we develop action steps. Each step will require certain resources. The resources required establish the cost. We agree on who is going to do what, who is going to benefit and where the resources will come from. It is important that each party actively work to develop the resources needed to solve the problem or achieve the goal. A one sided relationship will not survive the test of time. A truely cooperative relationship will grow, will solve significant problems and achieve meaningful goals.

       It is also important that each party focus on its best capabilities. Where capabilities are outside the resources of the parties, it may be appropriate to bring others into the relationship, to re-evaluate the goal, or to wait until the capabilities are developed.

       The real cost of an affiliate relationship is the willingness to focus on the need, to keep egos out of the way and to cooperatively tap into all the Resources required to actually solve the problem or achieve the goal.