1. TimeBanking and Cooperatives: Better Together? Do-it-Together Economic Justice and Community Resilience

2. What would you do to improve your community if you could?

3. What if money were no object?

4. Is Money an Object? But wait...

5. ob·ject Noun: A material thing that can be seen and touched.

6. 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.

8. What is an Economy? Distributed system for meeting people’s needs

9. What Does an Economy Do? Distribution of Work Reciprocity Incentives Risk-Pooling Resource Pooling Resource Allocation

10. We have options TimeBanking Community-Issued Currency Price-based Mutual Credit Community Saving and Lending Cooperative Ownership

11. 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

12. Economy MarketCommunity

13. The Wall Street Journal recognizes Spain’s 325 timebanks as a buffer against a collapsing economy

15. Price-Based Mutual Credit Price-Based Mutual Credit Price-Based Mutual Credit Price-Based Mutual Credit

16. Community Saving & Lending Community Saving & Lending

17. Cooperatives

18. 7 Cooperative Principles 1. Voluntary and Open Membership 2. Democratic Member Control 3. Members' Economic Participation 4. Autonomy and Independence 5. Education, Training and Information 6. Cooperation among Cooperatives 7. Concern for Community

21. New Vision Renewable Energy

22. What would you do to improve your community if you could? What if money were no object? How can we learn from others and apply those lessons here?

23. We learn by doing Trial and error DoDo Learn Fail DoDo LearnSucceed DoDo Learn Fail DoDo Learn Fail DoDo Learn Succeed

24. We learn more if we share We avoid repeating mistakes DoDo Learn Fail DoDo LearnSucceed DoDo Learn Fail DoDo Learn Fail DoDo Learn Succeed

25. Do Better Learn Share We build on each other’s work buildFTW.org

26. And make new friends in the process

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

28. What are we waiting for?