Here is an example: A Labor Opportunity Network-Individual Level (informally termed 'Neighbor-to-Neighbor/N2N' level) Key Example: Painting A Neighbor’s Fence. Imagine a scenario in which a resident of the Red Hook neighborhoods wishes to have her fence painted. She lives in a middle-income bracket and would like to make a charitable contribution to the wider Red Hook community, however modest. Instead of contracting a corporate entity to paint her fence, she decides to have a friend do it for a lower price, and is thinking of who to call up. She is then informed by her local (church/CAC meeting/neighborhood association/newspaper/landlord/etc) that the Human Empowerment Project works to supply such ‘side jobs’ to poor people in need of financial stability. She is told that such people would be both trustworthy and in genuine need; that they come from established ‘solidarity networks (also called 'reciprocity networks') based on the building of trust and responsibility, and that these small networks work along similar lines of micro-finance/micro lending-that is, the participants know each other or are indirectly linked to each other based on credibility, demonstrated responsability and word of mouth. She then decides to have two people from a local solidarity network paint her fence, and for half the price of a corporate contractor; the HEP looks at an ‘asset inventory’ of people in one of these networks to see who has done paint work before. It then links them over to do the paint job. She saves money and makes a charitable ‘donation’ to her community by providing two (trustworthy, responsible, pre-vetted) lower-income or otherwise struggling people with a dignified source of some side cash, all of which was earned. Based on her feedback to the HEP, the two individuals would likely become more solidly ingrained into the trust network based on proven responsibility and desire to work.