1. TimeBank Mahoning Watershed
Yours, Mine, & HOURS
TimeBank Mahoning Watershed

2. TimeBanks USA “Mission Statement”:
Edgar Cahn
Founder of TimeBanks USA
TimeBanks USA “Mission Statement”:
Strengthening communities through reciprocity

3. Build community through reciprocity
MISSION STATEMENT:
TimeBank Mahoning Watershed, Inc., an umbrella network of Community Groups based on "Time Dollars:" the currency of equally valued services, the exchange of which empowers individuals to utilize their assets, to enhance their lives, neighborhood and communities.

4. What Is A Service Exchange?
Time Banking– What it is and how it works
The Five Core Values
What do people do?
Various Delivery Methods
Build A Member Lead Core Team

5. What is Time Banking All About?
At its most basic level, Time banking is a community of people who support each other.
Simply spending an hour doing something for somebody in your community, you earn a Time Dollar.
Then you can use that Time Dollar to buy an hour of a neighbor’s time or engage in a group activity offered by a neighbor.

7. Why A Time Bank? With time banking, we work with a group of individuals who are joined together for the common good. Time Banking is a system that connects unmet needs with untapped resources. Here is how this works . . . 7

8. Every human being has something to contribute.
ASSETS:
We are all assets.
Every human being has something to contribute.

9. Redefining Work: Some work is beyond price.
Work has to be redefined to value whatever it takes to raise healthy children, build strong families, revitalize neighborhoods, make democracy work, advance social justice, make the planet sustainable. That kind of work needs to be honored, recorded and rewarded.

10. Reciprocity:
Helping works better as a two-way street. The question: “How can I help you?” needs to change so we ask: “How can we help each other build the world we both will live in?”

11. Social Networks: We need each other.
People helping each other reweave communities of support, strength and trust. Community is built upon sinking roots, building trust, creating networks that are built on mutual respect and commitment.

12. Respect Respect demands accountability.
The voices of all must be heard and heeded so as to promote social justices and compel accountability.

13. What can Time Banking do for me
What can Time Banking do for me? Time Banking does many things for different people.

14. What happens if you go into debt?
Having a negative balance is not a big deal in a Time Dollar account. After all, people have to receive in order for others to give
Each Time Bank sets up its own limits on how far a member's account can go into debt, and it is explained in their Member Handbook. People who have a history of earning lots of Time Dollars are generally allowed a bigger debt limit.

15. Is anyone else really doing this?
In Portland, Maine –not Oregon—600 people are exchanging 800 different types of services from walking dogs, tutoring children, taking seniors to the hospital, to massages and health care.
This isn’t just some trendy, new age, community building concept—this is real life for thousands of people, across the country. In fact . . .

16. There are over 120 Time Bank communities in the US and 300 more around the world.

17. Today’s ---- Opportunities
Where could a Time Bank start to grow?

18. Time Bank Mahoning Watershed at

22. Creating a ...
Network Of Time Banks

23. Neighbor-To-Neighbor Exchanges Program or Organization Based Exchanges
Service Exchanges
are delivered in two ways
Neighbor-To-Neighbor Exchanges
Program or Organization Based Exchanges

24. Time Banks take many forms. Here are some examples:
Friends Time Banks – with up to 35 people who generally already know each other
Neighborhood Time Banks - usually up to about 150 members who live close by
School or Church based Time Banks – where members of a pre-existing community use the Time Bank to weave a tighter community
Regional Time Banks – composed of a federation of neighborhood Time Banks
Social Service Agency based Time Banks – where clients become participants and people’s lives are transformed though a supportive community

25. To Open Your Time Bank Account
It’s Easy
To Open Your Time Bank Account

26. Filling 6 Leadership Roles from membership Each Role to be shared by TWO individuals
Role I: Time Bank Ambassador
* Member Recruitment
Role II. Membership Coordinator
* Member Orientation
* ‘Keeping in Touch’
* Making matches
Role III. Events Coordinator
* Focuses on all group activities of the Time Bank

27. Filling 6 Leadership Roles from membership Each Role to be shared by TWO individuals
Role IV. Webmaster
* Training New Members in On-Line Time Banking
* Running the on-line community page
Role V. Administration
* Collecting dues
* Financials/Budgeting
* Fundraising
Role VI. Team Leader
* Makes sure that everyone is happily taking responsibility for their role.

28. Timebank Leadership Roles decentralized, flexible and skill building
Events Team
Create monthly and annual events
Identify locations, introducers and orienteer
Post announcements in papers and on cable, etc.
Finds Media support to write articles, post listings of meetings dates / times
Ambassador Team
Set up ties and speaks to local community groups / individuals
Follow-up with potluck attendees who don’t join
Post flyers around town
Respond to requests for info
Promote and publicize TB in local media
Board of Directors
Incorporate Timebank & apply For 501 (c) 3
Conducts Performance Evaluation of CEO
Records and distributes minutes
Provide fiscal oversight
Web Presence Team
Community Weaver
Local Timebank Website
Manage list serve, Facebook, etc
Troubleshoot
Provide telephone support: technical assistance to members as requested
Ethics Committee
as needed
CEO
Holds the big picture
Supports teams
Creates meeting agendas
Helps where needed
Recruits new helpers
Plans for growth
Membership Team
Intake & Orient new individual member
Work with organizational members to ensure success, spend credits
Recruit & train computer buddies
Insure members use Community Weaver
Matchmaking, Link requests and offers
Provide intake for new members
Maintain membership database
Fundraising Team
Plan fundraising events.
Assist in preparing annual budget as requested
Prepare annual request letters
Write Grant proposals
Write thank you notes
Administration & Office

29. TimeBanks are started at …
Community Centers
Social Services
Places of Worship
Neighborhood Groups
Local Business
Local Food Production
Juvenile/Criminal Justice
Public & Private Institutions
Artists/Arts Organizations
Service Groups
By TimeBank AMBASSADORS, folks who like
meeting people and are natural networkers.

30. Member-led Time Banks Reweaving Community, One Hour at a Time