Let’s build a Healthy Community Economy Here and Now Do-it-Together Economic Justice and Community Resilience
What would you do to improve your community if you could?
What if money were no object?
Is Money an Object? But wait...
ob·ject Noun: A material thing that can be seen and touched.
mon·ey 1. A medium that can be exchanged for goods and services and is used as a measure of their values on the market, including among its forms a commodity such as gold, an officially issued coin or note, or a deposit in a checking account or other readily liquefiable account. 2. The official currency, coins, and negotiable paper notes issued by a government. MONEY IS AN AGREEMENT.
What is an Economy? Distributed system for meeting people’s needs
What Does an Economy Do? Distribution of Work Reciprocity Incentives Risk-Pooling Resource Allocation
We have options TimeBanking Community-Issued Currency Price-based Mutual Credit Commercial Credit Circuits Community Banking Cooperative Ownership
TimeBanking TimeBanking TimeBanking “We have what we need if we use what we have” -- Edgar Cahn Community Centers Local Business Local Food Production Faith-based Social Services Community Justice Public & Private Institutions Artists & Arts Organizations Dane County TimeBank Dane County TimeBank
Economy MarketCommunity
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Price-Based Mutual Credit Price-Based Mutual Credit Price-Based Mutual Credit Price-Based Mutual Credit
Commercial Credit Circuits Commercial Credit Circuits
Community Banking Community Banking
Cooperative Ownership Cooperative Ownership
What would you do to improve your community if you could? What if money were no object? What’s stopping you?
We learn by doing Trial and error DoDo Learn Fail DoDo LearnSucceed DoDo Learn Fail DoDo Learn Fail DoDo Learn Succeed
We learn more if we share We avoid repeating mistakes DoDo Learn Fail DoDo LearnSucceed DoDo Learn Fail DoDo Learn Fail DoDo Learn Succeed
Do Better Learn Share We build on each other’s work buildFTW.org
And make new friends in the process
We all know ways we want our world to be better.
What are we waiting for?