Elderplan (Member to Member) Cross-Age Peer Tutoring Youth Court Time Dollars in Action Elderplan (Member to Member) Cross-Age Peer Tutoring Youth Court

Time Dollar Youth Court 53% of African American males 18-35 in prison, parole, probation or warrant out for their arrest 30-40% of Juvenile Arrests “No Papered” 31% Recidivism Rate for Juveniles “No Papered”

Cross-Age Peer Tutoring 40% of students never finish high school 10-20% of students classified Special Education or Attention Deficit Deficient by 4-5th grade

Elderplan Member-to-Member 20% of Seniors spend time in hospital annually Social isolation and depression affect physical health Long term care prohibitively expensive

The Miner’s Canary Wanted to share a growing conviction that a concept called Co-Production might supply the framework for philanthropy that would make possible a quantum advance   Neither Richard nor Miguel suspected when they invested in Time Dollars that they would be exploring a whole new framework called Co-Production Neither did I But we knew it as different from massive professional service programs to meet needs and to rescue at-risk groups and individuals An image can that in perspective. AMY THAT IS...................................... THE MINER=S CANARY Miners often carried a canary into the mine alongside them. The canary=s more fragile respiratory system would collapse from noxious gases long before humans were affected, thus alerting the miners to danger. Guiner & Torres, The Miner=s Canary Co-Production is a short hand way of asking: Are we putting respirators on canaries? Isn=t it time to ask: Where does the toxicity come from? How do we get at it? How do we stop it, clean it out, restore health? Who can best to that? Professionals, community or the two working together? Co-Production is a way of saying: if we can enlist the community as partners, we won=t have to worry about putting canaries on artificial life support. We knew with Time Dollars we were doing something different. Something that went beyond asset mapping that went beyond documenting the decline of social capital. We were enlisting new troops in a partnership. In the process, we realized we had stumbled on something more fundamental than Time Dollars. it became clear that Time Dollars was just a tool. And the outlines of a more fundamental process began to emerge. We called it Co-Production.

A Different Economic System 40% of productive work occurs outside the market economy (Becker, Folbre) $1.9 trillion = value of household work in the US in 1998 (25% of GDP) $196 billion = national value of informal care giving in 1997 CORE ECONOMY   What does it do? What DOES any economy do. It produces and it distributes. So what does this economy produce and what does it distribute? Infants, Children, teenagers and peer groups, families, care for seniors. It produces safe vibrant neighborhoods, community, democracy, civil society It produces love and caring and coming to each other=s rescue and sharing 24-7. Uses a different production model and a different distribution model from Market Production: Specialization and Vision of Labor versus Interdependence, self sufficiency Distribution: Pricing versus Equity, need, contribution, love, reciprocity, moral obligation - guilt How big is it 40%/ Gary Becker, nancy Folbre Redefining Progress B $1.9 trillion (household labor) Unpaid care that keeps seniors out of nursing homes $196 billion unpaid care That economy is in trouble Much of so-called growth is in fact a shift from the non-monetary sphere to the monetary sphere of public or private - or philanthropic GDP Hero - Cancer Patient in a difficult divorce - 2 lawyers, 2 houses, real estate brorker Other growth - toxic waste - producing and clenaing up , prisons,nursing homes That=s why we are talking about a different use of philanthropic dollars not to build more complex specialized programs But to rebuild and restore the Core Economy What does that really mean: rebuilding the Core Economy. that means becomes clearer if we use an analogy AMY

The underlying operating system of society The Core Economy The underlying operating system of society Operating system specialized programs   problem Can=t just rebuild or do patch job

A New Operating System Assets Redefining Work Reciprocity Social Capital

Assets The real wealth of this society is its people. Every human being can be a builder and a contributor.

Redefining Work Work must be redefined to include whatever it takes to rear healthy children, preserve families, make neighborhoods safe and vibrant, care for the frail and vulnerable, redress injustice, and make democracy work.

Reciprocity Giving is more powerful as a two-way street. To avoid creating dependency, acts of helping must trigger reciprocity: giving back by helping other. “You need me” becomes “We need each other.” We have been sending the wrong message - 2 wrong messages 1 You have nothing I want, need or value 2. get help by having more problems   More important learned not creating a constituency for social justice if you define people as takers, their role is to take and the political climate then says: take less, and lesss We produced it, it=s ours Suicidal Have to mobilize troops When we found where the troops were - in homes and neighborhoods We discovered more than people, we discovered a distinctive economic system

Social Capital “No man is an island.” Informal support systems, extended families, and social networks are held together by trust, reciprocity, and civic engagement.

Complementary Currencies Need Banking Systems Need Money to Run Social Inventions Need Money to Run

Let’s Start with Social Justice: Tax-Exempt Status Reject Market Pricing to Secure Foundation & Government Support Co-Production = Funding

Shifting the Burden of Proof Redefining the range of the possible Producing Different Outcomes

From Why? to Why Not? Time to ask   Is this a new framework - Is it really a paradigm shift? How to test conduct inventory activate a learning network do analysis develop taxonomy create co-production alternative models to test austerity hypothesis invite present grantees to try it and see if results differ Issues Non-Issues B tax + liability Real Issues contribution to the Core Economy how to enable it to link to market goods To upward mobility without buying into market price as the measure of value without promoting brain drain without opening doors to other Aunintended consequences@ What kinds of rewards are available if we look at surplus What kinds of savings are possible that permit reprogramming What ways to prevent this from being used as an excuse for cutbacks What ways to focus on externalities that are causing the toxicity We have learned enough to know that this is a different way of doing things and that it gets different results and that it makes possible things we had thought were beyond our means. Today is about asking Why Not. And How to go about asking Why Not systematically. We hope we have at least met the initial burden of proof that there is a presumption of real substance. We want your help in garnering more evidence - or challenging what we think we have learned. And taking the next step Because the next step will take co-production.