2019 – News on TIME BANKING!

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity, Reforming Global Finance, Beyond GDP

“Ethical Markets is always happy to post news on the global movement for time banking, founded by our esteemed Advisory Board member, the legendary Edgar Cahn!

See Edgar on our TV show on ways to recognize unpaid volunteer work in our communities at www.ethicalmarkets.tv, distributed globally, and his articles in or Ethical Markets Review and Advisors Forum.  Edgar and his longtime partner Christine are financial innovators, along with all those who signed on to our 2010 Statement “Transforming Finance”.  Join us!

~Hazel Henderson, Editor“

With Belen Alvarez at dinner in Madrid celebrating 20 years of timebanking in Spain, April 2019.  Born almost blind, Belen is a timebank coordinator who loves how TimeBanking has opened opportunities for her and many others by valuing all that people have to give.

Hello, it’s Edgar.

2019 has been a year of polarization.  It is exactly the time to turn to TimeBanking as an appeal to the best in us, to be all we can be, and all we can do to create the kind of world we want for ourselves and even more for our children and their children.

That’s not fantasy. We hear the stream of actual stories of seemingly small, individual acts of caring coming from the hundreds and hundreds of TimeBanks spread over six continents.  Each one has inspired me to reflect on the deeper meaning of our shared endeavor to bring TimeBanking to the world.  Hear the stories and my thoughts on the podcast.

We surely know, but don’t always stay conscious, of how much our present polarization stems from fear. Artificial intelligence, robots, automation; they pose a threat to the sense of meaning and security we derive from how we earn a living and how we define our sense of self. TimeBanking is not simply doing nice things. It is the work of the future.

In every domain, TimeBanking supplies the connectivity, the mutual support, the empathy that enables us to feel we matter and we can make a difference. It provides an answer to the question that we ask ourselves sooner or later: Why am I here?  What have I done that has made a difference in the lives of others?

As an organization, TimeBanks will be entering a new phase with a new Executive Directive.  Chris and I will remain as active as ever because we are committed.  But TimeBanks is now about to undertake new initiatives with a new CEO.  As TimeBanking helps to define and shape the economy of the future, we need your support on three major fronts:

(A) The launch of our major new initiative called Gathering With a Purpose
(B) Upgrading Community Weaver
(C) Expanding our course of Systems Change for Changemakers

Each of these as described below builds on what TimeBanking does and is designed to enhance the infrastructure TimeBanks represent. Can you help us multiply what TimeBanking already does, to send out new ripples of hope so that 2020 can birth a new era of possibility?

Any contribution helps us strengthen the TimeBank movement in these three ways.  Click here to donate.

Let’s make 2020 a year to celebrate.

In gratitude,

Edgar Cahn
Founder, TimeBanks