2. Our commitment to developing relationships should not be bound by municipal or national boundaries. We will develop relationships and resources wherever opportunities exist for our members. However, we as an organization shall not sacrifice our responsibility to the community in which we live and work, for promises of more wealth elsewhere.

3. We respect the implicit trust placed in our care to help advance each member’s career. We will honor that trust as sacred. We will operate with clarity and transparency of operations, allocations, and investment so that each member, volunteer, supporter, sponsor, or stakeholder can view. We shall provide a platform wherein each stakeholder can voice their concerns or approval. We must be men and women of sound decisions, not hurried or impetuous thinking only of short term problems. We must build for the legacy we leave the next generation of leadership.

4. Our first responsibility is to the membership. We are a support system for the African American Professional in Real Estate. We are one group with a multitude of differing opinions, experience levels, backgrounds, professions and affluence all united to better ourselves, our businesses, and the community through shared effort into our support system. We are all better if we each give to the whole, and share of ourselves the relationships, knowledge, and experience that we each have accumulated. The purpose of AAREPNY is to satisfy the interests of our membership for employment, education, relationships, information and business opportunities. To fully realize our purpose we each must participate, for only then will AAREPNY uncover its full potential.

5. Our organization must advocate for our professional, economic, and entrepreneurial livelihood. We must work with policy makers and industry leaders to benefit the communities we live and work in through diversity in the workplace and fair practices in trade. Seeking true diversity in the workplace at all levels of employment ensures a voice for the African American professional and an economic engine for our communities.

6. Our second responsibility is to our volunteers. We acknowledge that your time is the most precious of all resources. We will seek to align your personal goals of career advancement with the goals of AAREPNY. In the times when we can not align your personal goals with AAREPNY, we must first satisfy the goals of AAREPNY. If this personal sacrifice is deemed to great a burden; we will not coerce or compel any volunteer but seek to compensate a professional. Once you have committed to giving your time freely in the efforts of advancing the agenda of our organization, we must not require of you an unreasonable sacrifice or undo burden. We shall give a forum to address any concerns or ideas to continuously push the organization to be forward thinking. Our time must be allocated in the most productive and organized means for the greatest benefit of the membership. In return of our volun

teering our time, we will acknowledge to the public and to the industry the sacrifice and effort each individual has made in building our system. Each contribution is in the effort of building an endurable institution that will continuously generate leaders for future generations.

7. Our third responsibility is to our management. Our leadership must set the standard against which all others are measured, continually evolving and seeking to surpass our latest levels of accomplishment, both individually and as an organization. If we are to push the limits and boundaries of our experience, we must be willing to make an honest mistake, without placing blame. When a mistake is made we will acknowledge it openly, correct it immediately and examine and record its lessons. We must view each misstep as coming closer to an understanding of how to better lead our organization.