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So far our founder (David Brown) has used approximately $7,500 of his own money towards The HIV/AIDS Network over a span of 3 years (this is a burden as the founder's only source of income is disability for heart surgery and HIV infection). To save employee costs for design and publishing, our founder does it himself investing about 3,000 hours into research and page development. To save the costs of database administration and networking, our founder does it himself, so far adding about 2,000 hours of work.  To save $500/month for web hosting all our sites, our founder runs his own web server, chat server, mail server, applications server, database server and FTP server. Learning and maintaining these services has added another 2,000 hours. To save the costs of a programmer, our founder has done it himself and contributed about 5,000 more hours here. Now there re other duties like maintain remarks in forum and guest books, adding and updating contents, repairing computers, reinstalling computers, upgrading, etc. But our founder has learned all these skills as he could not afford to hire people, but this has taken up about another 1,500 hours of time that should be used to add content to the sites. Doing these services our self has saved us over $30,000 so far.  We need a team of people, look at what just one person can do!