For Partners and Allies

THANK YOU for your commitment to reforming the lending industry, and for recognizing that being part of a common message increases public participation in the call for reform.  AFFIL can provide your organization with tools that support your work to strengthen our common endeavor.

AFFIL Allies are locally based organizations who care about consumers.  AFFIL Allies come in many forms — they are legal services organizations, private lawyers, housing counselors, credit counselors, military agencies, faith-based organizations, grassroots advocacy organizations, and others.

Click here to become an AFFIL Ally.

Share the AFFIL animated video 

Share this hilarious video with your members (especially the younger ones).  Click here to watch.

Here are some ways you can share the video: 

1. Embed the YouTube html on your blog or webpage:  <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4c8Wvy7I2EU"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4c8Wvy7I2EU" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>
2. Email people the link on our site - http://www.affil.org/ybf
3. Download the .flv file and player directly from http://www.affil.org/ybf
4. Share through YouTube - http://youtube.com/watch?v=4c8Wvy7I2EU
5. Ally with us on Rethos.com, a hip new social networking site
6. Join the Americans for Fairness in Lending group on Facebook
7. If you use StumbleUpon.com, give http://www.affil.org/ybf a "thumbs up"
8. Contact us for help.

More Tools for spreading the word

The following items are included here for you to download, print, use and distribute:

• Principles of Fairness in Lending
• Top Ten Tricks of the Lending Trade
• Typical and Unfair Lending Practices
• A Glossary of Predatory Lending Terms
• The History of Usury
• Consumer Shopping Guide:  Credit Cards
• Consumer Shopping Guide:  Mortgage
• Consumer Shopping Guide:  Car Loan
• Consumer Shopping Guide:  Small Loans
• Consumer Resource Packet (contains all of the above)
• Maxed Out Discussion Guide
• Maxed Out Trailer
• Maxed Out’s AFFIL Bonus Feature

The following promotional items are also available for you.  We ask for donations for these items to cover over production costs.  Please contact us to order items - tell us how many of each item you would like, and where to send them.

• Maxed Out "Credit Cards":  $.50 each
• Postcards:  $.25 each  Front Back
• Brochures:  $.50 each
• Posters:  $6 each
• Promotional Starter Kit:  $65.  Includes:  3 posters (one each of three designs), 75 postcards (25 each of three designs), 50 brochures and 50 Maxed Out "credit cards"