As an XL Founding Members you enjoy all the benefits that XL Citizens receive, and in addition they receive further Founding Member Privileges. Below is a summary of both.

The difference between an XL Citizen and an XL Founding Member:
There are three main differences between an XL Citizen and an XL Founding Member:
Ownership for Life: The first is that as an XL Founding Member you have invested in a transferable seat on the XL Senate that lasts for life, whereas an XL Citizen pays an annual membership fee to remain as an XL Citizen. This is the difference of buying a property versus renting it, or owning a company versus working in it. As an XL Founding Member, you have a say in the running and the shaping of XL Nation as one of 3,600 seat holders in the Senate, and you are recognised as someone who had enough belief in our collective ability to affect change that you took a stand along with the other XL Founding Members to hold the space for our success to flourish.
 
Increased Intangible Privileges: With the increased status comes increased trust. In the same way that shareholders work together with a common sense of ownership, XL Founding Members find their ability to open doors and create partnerships accelerates. Being privy to the strategies shaping a global entrepreneur community will shift your mindset in facing your own challenges and the opportunities that open via other XL Founding Members have proven time and again to be worth more than the entire cost of your seat.
 
Increased Tangible Privileges: In addition, within XL Nation, Founding Members are recognised for their commitment through a series of additional privileges. These are grouped into accelerated ways to show up, to step up and to give back. These are regularly added to, and here’s the current list –
 
Privileges that create a platform for ‘Showing Up’
Woody Allen says “80% of success is showing up”. So our ability to be present in the face of opportunity and learning is paramount. Here’s the ways that XL Nation enables XL Citizens and XL Founding Members to show up:
1. Global Network
In 2008, XL World was launched as an online network for us to connect and share resources. It is unique in serving as both a meeting point and a central base of opportunities, knowledge, inspiration and programs that come from our real-world meetings. Our XL Citizens use XL World as a complement to their real-world connections, accelerating trust and information exchange.

Founding Members have the power to create circles and shape the community as XL Circle and Global Leaders. You are also recognised in XL World and at meetings as Founding Members, and have a say in how the network evolves through the Senate, which meets monthly.
 
2. Local Events
By 2009, we had monthly events taking place in over 30 cities around the world. Since the launch of XL Nation, the number of events taking place is growing exponentially as XL Leaders create their own circles in cities around the world. XL Citizens can apply to join open XL Circles around the world, or attend as a guest, and all have access to the learning, opportunities, successes and measures of each circle as these are always posted into XL World.

Founding Members have the additional privilege of access to XL Circles that are restricted to Founding Members only – and to set up their own. You also have the opportunity as XL Leaders to have say in what happens at the Arc Level, which shapes the International Speakers and World Tours that come to your home town.
 
3. Relevant Events
Prior to the launch of XL World, the only events that occurred in XL were local events. Now, you have the opportunity to connect with XL Circles related to your passion, purpose, profession, profile, interests and industry all over the world. Virtual Circles take place via XL World and, if you do not want to commit the time to showing up within a circle, you can still access their flow via the learning, opportunities, successes and measures that they post.

Founding Members can access Founding Member Only Circles throughout the World and set up their own global circles, which XL Citizens are not able to do. Think of your current profession, purpose or interests. What could you set up to build a support base and invite potential future partners in, creating an instant environment of value for them from which you can build trust and connection?
 
4. International Events
XL has always been committed to connecting us with the best minds and speakers in the world. In the past, this involved costly tours and events. Today, you have monthly access to much of the best learning in the world through a mix of tours, monthly live video power-ups and monthly Forum and Senate sessions which are always inspiring and interactive. These are all recorded so you can also access them if you can’t make the live session. As many of our XL Founding Members are also leading speakers and educators, you can also catch the events they are involved in through our online calendar.

Founding Members have exclusive access to attend a variety of International Events, such as the Forum and Senate Sessions, and the top speakers and content is provided either by Founding Members or their recommended choices. That means you are uniquely positioned to have the dual opportunity to both participate in and present at these events.
 
5. Groups and Programs
In addition to the various meetings and events, XL Nation also has groups that you can join, covering a wide variety of areas, and programs that XL Citizens create and participate in. You will find these publicised in XL World, and will include wealth creation and wealth contribution programs, as well as social events and tours.
 
Privileges that create a mountain for ‘Stepping Up’
Once we are on the pitch and in the game, the way that we raise our game through the opportunities and tools at our disposal becomes critical. Here’s the ways that XL Nation enables XL Citizens and XL Founding Members to step up:
6. Wealth Dynamics Resources
XL users Roger Hamilton’s Wealth Dynamics profiling system to identify our the game we need to play and the people we need to connect with to get into our flow. All XL Citizens receive a profile test, and can find the people, resources, opportunities, learning and success stories within XL World organised by the Wealth Dynamics system. In the sea of information we are all swimming in, this gives us each a way to focus on what we need, when we need it.

Founding Members are recognised as the bearers of the flame for World Wide Wealth. With the launch of the Wealth Lighthouse and Wealth Spectrum in 2009, as a Founding Member you exclusively receive over $2,000 of value in the form of free test, membership access to the Wealth Lighthouse, which contains the body of knowledge of Wealth Dynamics, and downloadable Wealth Dynamics Power Packs on each profile.
 
7. XL Library
Every XL Circle is obliged to share their key learning in our library in XL World. This is not a library of information but of applied knowledge, where each video or audio is categorised, tagged, voted on, favourited and where specific details of how XL Circles are applying the piece in their enterprises or their life are included. This is being built as an invaluable library of knowledge for you to access and add to at any time.

Founding Members have the additional opportunity of defining the direction of learning at each XL Circle, as XL Leaders.
 
8. XL Opportunities Exchange
The Opportunities Exchange that takes place at every Wealth Dynamics Experience is an eye-opening example of how flow can be created when we focus on what we have to give instead of what we need to get. Every XL Circle shares opportunities globally through the XL Opportunities Exchange. Each opportunity is categorised, tagged and can be commented on.

Founding Members can take advantage of Opportunities that are only open to Founding Members, restricted when the offeror seeks a high level of commitment, trust and connection within the opportunity.
 
9. XL Success Stories
Rather than having theoretical examples of applied learning and opportunities, within XL Nation we share living examples and success stories. Every XL Circle shares successes each month that are categorised, tagged, comment on and as they are always of XL Citizens, you can connect to open new opportunities.

Founding Members have the additional privilege of being eligible for the annual Extraordinary Lives Award. All nominees are voted in by XL Citizens for their story from the last year, and are then interviewed and featured, with the global winner voted in.
 
10. Coaching Certification
Coaching has always been an important part of XL. In 2009, XL Nation will be providing coaching certification in life coaching and wealth coaching as online modules, which means you can access them from anywhere to build your skills at mentoring others. All XL Citizens must also have a Mentor, who will be responsible for ensuring that Citizen is using XL Nation effectively.

Founding Members have the opportunity to step up not only as XL Citizen Mentors, but XL Circle Mentors, which means you are supported to support groups in setting up effective flow and trust within their XL Circle. As many XL Founding Members are successful coaches, other opportunities inevitably arise from those who step up and create a name for themselves in their ability to coach.
 
Privileges that create a river for ‘Giving Back
Effective Giving isn’t all about charity. It’s about knowing that when we have stepped to a higher altitude we are in a position to create flow effectively by what we can pass on sustainably. Our knowledge, connections, skills and leadership are all values that, when shared, increase and do not decrease in value. Here’s the ways that XL Nation enables XL Citizens and XL Founding Members to give back:
11. Leadership
In the first seven years of XL, without exception it was always the XL Founding Members who stepped into leadership positions who received – as well as delivered – the most value. In XL Nation, the opportunities to give back as a leader are boundless: Every XL Circle has seven leadership positions, and every program whether for a profit-making project or a charity-related project has leadership teams. That means that regardless of where you live or who you are, you have an automatic opportunity to play a part in World Wide Wealth.

Founding Members can take on state leadership within XL Circles, and you can step up as City, Country or Global Leaders, which are elected in each year at the Bali Convention. This gives you the opportunity to play at the highest level.
 
12. Speakers & Trainers
The mix of real-world interaction and online-information, organised in modules around the Wealth Dynamics system, enables every speaker, trainer and coach to package your own content to be easily used in XL Circles. This gives us a virtual university of learning, where we all grow based on the strength of content rather than the marketing of any particular personality. Every XL Citizen can contribute into this pool and we can all see what content and value creates greatest attraction.

Founding Members have the additional opportunity of their work being highlighted, whether through the extraordinary lives awards, global events or through the circles they launch around their area of interest and expertise.
 
13. XL Marketplace
In 2009, XL is developing the XL Infinity Marketplace, where all XL Citizens can deposit $2,000 of value at a $1,000 price point for other XL Citizens (so we all benefit from 2 for the price of 1) in the form of products and services – the price and value of which is agreed with your circle. This gives us an immediate focus on what we have of value to offer, and once that is in the market, we have triple the price of citizenship at our disposal to spend on the products and services of our fellow citizens. This marketplace will grow to encompass all services we need to build our enterprises effectively.

Founding Members have the additional privilege of entering this marketplace by depositing $20,000 of value at a $10,000 price point. This gives Founding Members greater spending power and value delivery from the beginning, and the revenue in and savings received both equal or exceed the total cost of XL Founding Membership.
 
14. Measurable Giving
Every XL Circle measures and reports on their giving at each meeting, in cash donation, time given and resources given. These are combined in XL World to give us a running total of the total giving within XL Nation, together with highlighted causes that are being supported. This gives us all measures to focus at and targets to aim for and exceed while supporting each other.

Founding Members have the additional opportunity of creating circles around their particular cause, and to introduce those causes at a city, country and global level through the Arc, Forum and Senate sessions.
 
15. Effective Giving Programmes
XL set up the XL Social Enterprise Accreditation Programme to certify social enterprises who were committed to donating at least 10% of profits to a nominated cause. In the last seven years, many other programmes have also been established within XL Nation that give you an opportunity to give effectively without having to re-create the wheel. When joining XL Nation, you are joining a plumbing system of flow, where you have to simply find the best fit to plug in. You do that through showing up, stepping up and giving back.
 
Many XL Members would argue that the intangible benefits that they have receive exceed the tangible benefits presented. However, listing out these fifteen tangible benefits paints the picture of what XL Nation is: A unique combination of real world interaction and virtual world integration towards personal and global transformation.