BACE Timebank is expanding into Tuolumne County by pilot testing timebanking in a small mobile home community in the mountains of Jamestown, a historical Gold Rush town and landmark since 1949. It is three square miles, has 3423 residents (2010 …
Timebanks operate within a capitalist democracy, so we all need to keep our day job. We want people to share their skills joyfully, and that may be harder to do when sharing a commercial skill and receiving time instead of …
At a time when many people are expressing lack–lack of work, sundries, hand sanitizer, or a good haircut–I’m surprised to hear people say “….timebanking is a nice idea, but that’s not how the real world works.” Why not? Maybe social …
How can you timebank while sheltering-in-place? Think of services. Earn/spend hours engaging in education: teach/learn to interpret art from a diversity of communities, to read music, to speak Spanish, to communicate with American Sign Language, or to sharpen your cooking …
Crises bring stress and impact your well-being–health, financial, emotional, social, spiritual–and can extend to impact your immediate and global communities. There are many ways to use BACE Timebank to cope when you are in a crisis. First, update your profile …
Mira Luna, a Timebank board member, wrote this rad article about bike kitchens near and far, including Timebank faves the SF Bike Kitchen and Biketopia, both of which accept Timebank hours 🙂