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Stephanie
Rearick, noted specialist in Time Banks and Director of the largest
Time Bank in the U.S., presented in the atrium of Fall River
Government Center on October 2, 2012. Time
Banking is an alternative monetary system centered on the principle
that time one spends performing social and civil services can be turned
into "currency." One hour of labor served
equals one credit of time received, which can be used or saved for
accumulation towards a service. The
UMass-Dartmouth Office
of Sustainability has secured funding for two Americorps/VISTA
volunteers who will be working on Time Banking projects in Fall River
and New Bedford over the next two years. Ms. Rearick was invited both to
consult to the project and to describe how the system can work in Fall
River and New Bedford to increase the resources available to populations
such as under/unemployed persons, youth and seniors through the exchange
program. There
are hundreds of Time Banks thriving all over the world; the closest one
to the SouthCoast is in Providence, RI.
A locally-available program will be developed over the next six months.
For more information, contact
Bob Bailey at
rbailey@umassd.edu or
Christoph Demers at cdemers1@umassd.edu
or the UMass-Dartmouth Sustainability Office at
508-910-6484. |
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(Top row, left) Brian Pastori of the New Bedford Community Economic Development Center (CEDC) talks with a staff member of the South Coastal Counties Legal Services. (Top row, center) Stephanie Rearick, who heads the Dane County Time Bank, gets ready to give her presentation. (Top row, right) UMass-D VISTA Volunteers Christof Demers and Bob Bailey wait with Mr. Pastori for the presentation. (Middle row, left) United Neighbors of Fall River Director Wendy Garf-Lipp and Fall River Council on Aging Associate Director Pauline Gousie share a laugh with Stepahnie before the presentation. (Bottom row) Stephanie responds to questions from CEDC director Corinn Williams and Ms. Garf-Lipp at a session prior to her presentation. |
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