The mission of Autism Unites, Inc. is to create and promote a working model of a sustainable community based on collaboration through business of individuals with and without autism, based on the model called Match-A-Friend.

Sustainable community starts with a well designed plan, a seed that would give birth to a beautiful structure. The First Guild (TFG) is the project of Autism Unites is aimed to define such plan, plant the seed and see it grow.

Community

The community will start with a team of individuals who would plan and start the first household, which would give birth to the sustainable community.

Definitions

Sustainable community: a network of guilds connected

• The community will start with a household, which have to become sustainable immediately.
• The household will produce value and run as a guild, a micro enterprise with a defined business plan.
• The guid will have a master and apprentices.
• Guild master will know the trade, manage the household, oversee the order in the guild.
• In order to become a guild master, the individual must apply for the internship position. If accepted, the intern must receive a training for one year from the master teacher(s). Upon the successful completion of the training the intern will be assigned the title of a guild master and be trusted to have apprentices. The example of the intern would be a college graduate who is looking for the internship.
• Apprentice is youth 14-18 years who will living in the guild household. He/she will learn the trade and helping guild master to run the household.