This announcement to invite you to help build "a service exchange program based on Time Dollars, the currency of equality that empowers individuals to utilize their assets, to enhance their lives, neighborhood and community". Will you consider joining us?

Time Banking is a really interesting way of bringing people together to build community. It's a very simple idea - you earn a Time Dollar for helping, and you then spend the Time Dollars earned to receive help. That's the basis of it. Time Dollar exchanges generate giving and receiving and that can strengthen our sense of community in often unexpected ways.

There are Time Banks in 23 countries, with interest growing all the time. Time Banking is also spreading in the United States. The Time Banking website at www.TimeBanks.org provides more information about the many different kinds of Time Banks that are being created, and where.

Time Banking is an Internet age solution for weaving communities of mutual caring. By joining a TimeBank, you get to know who in your community is ready to play the game of being community. You sign up for what you want to give and find out what others want to give. Each interaction is like a thread that weaves a safety net, built locally, funded locally, and not subject to the whims of government.

Here in N.E. Ohio, individuals are now participating in the TimeBank of the Mahoning Watershed. Registration is free, so take a look at http://www.clnews.org/tbmw/index.htm for an opportunity to learn more.

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