Affiliate programs are those money-making schemes that offer to split profits with you and/or give a portion of the income to tou. It is the most common form of all charitable fund raising and ranges from Girl Scout Cookies to high end art auctions. Below we will describe a variety of such enterprises and besides trying to give you good ideas will also provide stories about scams and other pitfalls. We believe that this is the most abused part of social entrepreneurship and social philanthropy.
We are afraid this is particularly true of even the sale of Girl Scout cookies but more on that down below.