How to Find and Leverage the Hidden Wealth in your Group Memberships
(Grass Roots Wealth-Building)

Throughout the U.S. and beyond, there is hidden wealth in group memberships, just waiting to be tapped.  It exists at the grass roots level, and can easily expand to impact small and large communities in rural and urban areas. It can improve the financial health of communities, and radically change the cope and quality of services that communities enjoy.

The concept of leveraging group memberships to develop hidden wealth builds on an existing body of information and evidence about sustainable cooperative business models, intentional communities, and similarly structured organizations throughout the world, as you will see in the References section of this paper.

Who should care about the potential of Grass Roots Wealth?

You should care. Everyone should care.

Wealth does not mean income.  Income stops when you no longer have a job.

Wealth refers to the measure of the value of all of the assets of worth owned by a person, community, company or country. Wealth is determined by taking the total market value of all the physical and intangible assets of the entity and then subtracting all debts.

Income is a critical starting point in order to have basic living requirements, such as food, shelter, and clothing.  These requirements must be met in order to focus on other needs and wants, such as the long term security that wealth can bring.  Jobs, or some other form of income,  are therefore essential as a foundation for wealth building.

Current higher than normal unemployment rates suggest that it is prudent to create businesses that provide jobs, rather than sit idly by and wait for corporations to increase the numbers of people they hire.  Many people are embracing self-employment or starting small businesses as a way to generate income.  According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, small businesses represent 99.7% of all employer firms.

Based upon the success and sustainability of similar models, we believe that there is a another, a hybrid model for business creation that also supports job creation and wealth building.  The foundation for this model exists in every community throughout the U.S.   It is a grass roots approach, and resides in groups of people that are already organized for a common purpose.

So, yes – you should care about grass roots wealth building because it addresses the need for job creation while building long term security and a financial legacy.  You should also care because you can do it, starting now.

Download this free ebook to learn how your organization or church can access the wealth building  process, the precise role that training plays in achieving success,   the seven (7) essential components of a  group that is networked to build wealth, and much more.