The following is a specific example of the kind of infrastructure Another Way  would provide. In this example Another Way  would facilitate community cooperation involving private business, schools, and existing non-profit organizations.

Company A is having a hard time attracting good employees. It is faced with relocation costs because of increased crime in the area. Company A would like to improve the neighborhood and develop an ethical, responsible and competent work force.

It agrees to sponsor 20 children between the ages of 10 and 12 who frequent the local Boys and Girls Club. It will provide a team of mentors for each child. The mentors may get advice from the local Big Brothers and Big Sisters organizations. Company A employees will be expected to volunteer 5 hours a week for a 3 month period each year. This would provide mentors year round for the child and the three month rotation would make the time reasonable for the employee. They would encourage the child with his/her homework, keep in close touch with the child's school and plan trips to expand and enrich the child's life. The company would arrange for some paid time for an employee to work on projects which would slowly introduce the child to the company----could be decorating for a party or meeting, improving the facility by some landscape project, or building shelves, painting or cleaning up files or moving books. High school students would have an after-school apprentice job where they would acquire useful skills and be exposed to career options ranging from relatively low skilled technician slots, to professional positions requiring graduate degrees. The company would enter into a work-study contract with any child who managed to sustain good grades. The child would decide how much education is enough, not his financial and family circumstances. In this way the company would build its own inventory of employees. Training home-grown employees will reduce the current costly turn-over rate and produce loyal long term employees. At the same time, neighborhood kids in the program would likely develop a self-esteem and the leadership skills required to influence peers. Crime would decrease as hope rises. Young people would gain a stake in the future and discover the joy and satisfaction that comes from being a constructive human being. Tax dollars would not be needed for the job training program, nor for the unemployment checks that might have been necessary had Company A been forced off-shore.