Time Banks – where everyone benefits and brings benefits.

Time Banks – Providing Opportunity, Building Community

Time banks – where everyone benefits and brings benefits, all work is created equal, and time is money! Members exchange their time for the time of others. Participants develop skills, gain valuable contacts and build self-confidence.

Gabriele Donati, co-founder and managing partner of www.TIMEREPUBLIK.com an international time bank, charts the reasons for and the results of the venture.

Seminar date: Thursday, November 21, 2013.

Henry George School of Social Science121 East 30th Street (between Park and Lexington Avenues), New York, NY 10016

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Josiah Warren 1798 -1874

Equitable Commerce 1846

“The results of about twenty-five years of investi-gations and experiments, with a view to a great and radical, yet peaceful change in the character of society, by one who felt a deep and absorbing interest, and took an active part in the experi-ments of Communities at New Harmony, during the two years of 1825 and 1826”

Josiah Warren 1798 -1874

Sample labor for labor note for the Cincinnati Time Store. Scanned from Equitable Commerce 1846 by Josiah Warren

Edgar S. Cahn

TimeBanks USA www.timebanks.org

“An organization who’s mission is to nurture and expand a TimeBanking movement that promotes equality and builds caring community economies through inclusive exchanges of time and talents.”

1992 Time Dollars: The New Currency that En-ables Americans to Turn Their Hidden Resource - Time - into Personal Security & Community Renewal.

What are the limitations of existing Time Banks?

1. A strictly Regional Phenomenon

2. Trust amongst members is based mostly on a Friend & Relative level

3. Most of its transactions happen offline

4. They mostly target a 40 and up (Volunteer-Based) Audience

What are the limitations of existing Time Banks?

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How can we make Time Banks more popular?

1. Making them Global

How can we make Time Banks more popular?

2. Trust based on Feedbacks and Awards

How can we make Time Banks more popular?

3. Online Presence with a powerful and Easy-to-Use Platform

How can we make Time Banks more popular?

4. Rebranding the term Volunteering to make it more attractive for the younger generation Here you are not volunteering your time to a small circle of people but you are offering your talents on a global scale and get rewarded!

WHAT’S YOUR TALENT?

Time Banks - Equal Opportunity, Fair Community