WELCOME TO THE HOMEPAGE OF OUR TIMEBANKING SOFTWARE!

The KCTB Mission is: To provide a system of exchange where individuals and groups with needs and wants are answered by members with services, skills, and resources for the purpose of building community.

We are a community building program where we exchange our skills, talents, and passions. When you do something you like to do for someone for one hour, you earn one Time Credit. You may then spend that Time Credit on any of the hundreds of services offered in our TimeBank! The Kent Community TimeBank opened in April 2010 and continues to grow constantly.

If you are not yet a member our timebank, you will only have access to this homepage. To join, you may click on the tab above called Become a Member. After you fill out the online application, follow the instructions and our Membership Coordinator will be in touch with you about attending an orientation meeting!

Before being activated in the timebank, you must attend an orientation, which will give you the opportunity to learn more about the concept of timebanking in general and specifically, how our local timebank operates. You will also get a chance to see this software before diving in!

A service exchange or time bank is a network of individual, organizational, and business members that provide services, track and bank their hours, and then spend those hours to get their own needs met. A service exchange is not a barter network. One member provides a friendly, neighborly favor to another and records the time they spent doing so in the software, which is a third entity in the exchange, thus removing the barter aspect. It is not volunteering, as each hour spent is rewarded with a Time Credit which can be used at another time for another service.

The Crooked River Alliance of TimeBanks (CRAT) collaborates with local timebanks and their members to educate, train, and share resources to strengthen neighborhoods and build a web of healthy, sustainable, and interconnected communities in the Great Lakes region.

The Kent Community Timebank is a hub of the CRAT.