1. Do-it-Ourselves Economic Justice and Community Resilience
TimeBanking
Do-it-Ourselves Economic Justice and Community Resilience

2. What would you do to improve your community if you could?
What if money were no object?
What’s stopping you?
Discuss these questions, write notes on flip chart

3. “We have what we need if we use what we have” -- Edgar Cahn
What do we need? what do we have?
Make a basic need and asset map with these answers.
Let participants self-define who is meant by ‘we’.

4. How TimeBanking can help
Connect you with other people with similar goals
Enable you to earn toward your living while doing what you care about
Pool resources and mobilize people
Connect people and communities with needed resources

5. What is TimeBanking?
Now, list (on post-it notes or in your heads) needs and assets just like we did earlier.
Only now express them as offers and requests, as it is done in TimeBanking.

6. the 5 Core Values Assets Reciprocity Redefining Work Community Respect
Play TimeBank Yarn Game to illustrate matching offers and requests, engaging in reciprocal exchange, putting the core values into practice, creating informal social safety net.

7. How does it work?
Give a close-to-reality rundown of how timebanking works in practice.
If possible/appropriate show TimeBanking software in action.

8. 1hour =1hour
This is a timebank account showing the variety of exchanges, all treated/priced equally.
One hour of music lessons “equals” one hour of sharing recipes “equals” one hour or errands....

9. Meet your goals Social Services Community Centers Community Justice
Discuss your general and broad Vision, your specific Mission of your project and the concrete Objectives it will meet. Make up your own example - on a flip chart during the workshop
Public & Private Institutions
Local Business
TimeBank
Artists & Arts Organizations
Local Food Production
Faith-based

10. Carry out projects
Timebanking is a great way to pool resources to do community projects. Here are some of Dane County TimeBank, from top left: Allied Community Coop kickoff dance party, TimeBank Youth Court juror wins a Dane County Court award, Wellness Day at Northside Farmers Market 2005, Wellness Project meal and workshop 2012, see more in our annual report at

11. We learn by doing Trial and error Do Do Learn Succeed Learn Fail Do
Timebanks everywhere are making dents in difficult social problems and bringing communities together in the process. As with everything new, we learn through trial and error. Do
Succeed
Learn Do
Learn
Fail
Fail
Learn
Trial and error

12. We learn more if we shareDo Do
Learn
Succeed
Learn
Fail Do
When we share what we learn in our own communities we help others to learn from our mistakes. We turn local ‘failures’ into global successes by using them to improve our practices. Do
Succeed
Learn Do
Learn
Fail
Fail
Learn
We avoid repeating mistakes

13. We build on each other’s work
Do Better
How can we create an economy that catalyzes, values and rewards abundance and collaboration? How can we pool our time and talents to create the society we want to live in?
These questions get much easier when we put our heads together to answer them. !Please join us!
We're sharing our efforts at Build For the World ( an international support community hosted by Dane County TimeBank.
Learn
Share

14. And make new friends in the process
Timebanking is working in more than 35 countries around the world.

15. We all know ways we want our world to be better.

16. What are we waiting for?