Welcome to the Whole Community Time Bank 

A time bank is a network of individual, organizational, and business 'members' who provide services, track and bank their hours, and then spend those hours to get their own needs met. There is no barter or exchange; one member does a friendly, neighborly favor for another and records the time they spent doing so. Members share their talents and services, record their hours, then 'spend' them later on services they want. Everyone's hours are treated as equal in value. 

After seeing a TED talk about how a New Zealand time bank helped its community recover from two major earthquakes, Eugene (Oregon) neighborhood preparedness committees created their own local time bank.  The time bank can foster relationships and catalog resources to help our community prepare for and recover from the next disruptive event, such as winter weather, high winds that cause power outages, wildfires, earthquakes, and pandemics.  

Organizational members (such as neighborhood associations, nonprofits, and community groups) can recognize volunteers by banking their volunteer hours in the time bank. 

Ask your local bank whether it can open an account for you in our local time dollar currency. The currency is limited to residents in these Lane County HUC-8 watersheds: the Alsea, Coast Fork Willamette, McKenzie, Middle Fork Willamette, Siltcoos, Siuslaw, and Upper Willamette.