by Nicole Banales | Jun 13, 2016 | Features In The News, Get Connected, Get Started, Go Deeper, Learning Circles, Stories, What is TimeBanking?
By: Nicole Bañales Stories: The Heartbeat of TimeBanking 16 June 2016 from http://www.cflsdc.org/ Stories are powerful tools. They inspire, amaze, motivate, get a toddler to sleep after a nightmare — and they also connect us together in unforeseen ways. It was...
by Chris | May 26, 2016 | Features In The News, Go Deeper, Learning Circles, Stories, Uncategorized
April 29th at the University of the District of Columbia, we gathered to celebrate timebanking founder, Edgar Cahn. This time, it was to honor Edgar for the two other times he was a visionary founder, before he started the timebanking movement worldwide: the...
by Chris | May 17, 2016 | Features In The News, Get Connected, Go Deeper, Learning Circles, Stories, What is TimeBanking?
by Debra-Lynn Hook, Kent Community TimeBank The manager of Kent’s Haymaker Farmers’ Market initially decided to join the Kent Community Timebank to meet her neighbors and to support the director of the program, her good friend, Abby Greer. But it didn’t take much for...
by Chris | May 12, 2016 | Go Deeper, Stories
James Sandman LSC President speech April 29 2016
by Chris | May 5, 2016 | Features In The News, Get Connected, Go Deeper, Learning Circles, Stories, What is TimeBanking?
By Abby Greer, Kent Community TimeBank As the founder and director of a timebank, I have seen many profound changes in people as they experience, first hand, an economy without cash. Beyond saving money and time, beyond folks getting things done that they have been...
by Chris | May 4, 2016 | Features In The News, Get Connected, Learning Circles, Stories, What is TimeBanking?
One thing about TimeBanking that makes it fun and interesting is that you never know what offer or request might peep its head over the horizon. Here’s my most recent piece of unexpectedness. I put it out there on the timebank that I would offer listening. It’s not...
by Chris | Oct 29, 2015 | Features In The News, Go Deeper, Learning Circles, Stories, What is TimeBanking?
Today, a friend, who lives in Vermont, gave us three jars of crab-apple jelly – ruby red, and tantalizing. We could not wait. Together, we broke into the first jar right away, digging a spoon into the jelly and then spreading it, wobbly and translucent, onto some...
by Chris | Oct 1, 2015 | Features In The News, Get Connected, Get Started, Go Deeper, Learning Circles, Stories, What is TimeBanking?
Have you ever thought about how much imagination and creativity gets stirred up by TimeBanking? I was reminded of that, big time, at the September DC TimeBank monthly gathering and potluck that we held last weekend. I happen to love the potlucks/gatherings. For a...
by Stacey JACOBSOHN | Aug 31, 2015 | Features In The News, Get Started, Go Deeper, Learning Circles, Stories, Uncategorized, What is TimeBanking?
Why ask why? Why not just get down to timebanking? This entry is for excited, eager founders of new timebanks who feel that stressing the core values of timebanking to newcomers is too deep, abstract, or unnecessary preaching. Your steering committee may be steering...
by Stacey JACOBSOHN | Aug 11, 2015 | Features In The News, Get Connected, Get Started, Go Deeper, Learning Circles, Stories, Uncategorized, What is TimeBanking?
by Kristina Spaude As a seminarian, I know the struggle of not having enough time or money. I currently have no regular income – other than student loans – and enough work to do that I could keep several clones of myself busy for years to come. Concerns about paying...
