People of all ages have something to offer and things they need.  That's what TimeBanking is about.  It's a way to help others and get help in return.  We share skills and talent.  The things we do are not just favors or volunteering.  We give and receive.  We need each other.  Everybody counts. 

Would you like to be able to ride the bus with confidence?
We can help!

Many people in Dane County do not own cars or drive. Because of a disability, health problem, or just unfamiliarity, they may need help in order to use public transportation.
Ten wonderful TimeBank members have now been trained to provide the training and the assistance they need. 
Now we need trainees! Feel free to use this service and to tell your friends and neighbors.
We are working with social workers, case managers, family members and volunteer groups. The goal is for the TimeBank to help promote independence and fuller participation in community life.   

Read all about the Madison, WI based international timebanking dissemination project, Time For The World in this great article by Ruth Conniff. We're very excited to scale up our efforts here while helping to catalyze sharing of information, tools, technologies, and innovations among lots of communities around the world! Spearheaded by DCTB Director Stephanie Rearick and DCTB members Preston Austin and Marc Brakken.

At 6 years old and nearly 2000 members, the Dane County TimeBank and its participants are learning a lot about how to use mutual credit exchange to help create the communities we want to live in. And we have a lot more to learn! So do the thousands of other cooperative problem-solving initiatives around the world. So we're going to work together to learn what works locally, what doesn't work and why – and share that information with each other across the globe! And we'll support each other’s efforts,  share our successes and pool our risks. Part of this journey involves building leadership skills so lots of people can take initiative to improve their communities. We'll start by highlighting what people around here have learned so far, working to use cooperative tools in the areas of food security, community justice, public safety, ecological sustainability, healthy human-scaled economic development, wellness, housing access, poverty relief and more.

What Are Builders’ Workshops?

Builders' Workshops are a learning and leadership building journey hosted by the Dane County TimeBank, our local mutual credit time exchange: http://danecountytimebank.org and Build For the World, our project to learn from and share what we're doing with communities working on similar efforts around the world: http://buildFTW.org.

Where Are Builders’ Workshops?

Builders' Workshops will be held in the conference room at the glass bank building, 1 S. Pinckney in Madison Wisconsin. If you can't be in Madison but would like to participate we'll do our best to connect you virtually. Contact info@danecountytimebank.org to arrange.

Cost to attend: Contribute time, money, work or other gift of your choosing.

May 17th: What is our economy? What could it be? How can we make it what we dream of? And what are the barriers we need to knock down to make it all work?
June 21st: Project initiation game: Grand Prize – the world of your dreams!
July 19th: Wellness Project working group: Work and learn for better health.
August 16th: Creating Abundance in a Challenged Economy
September 20th: Healthy Community Economy Part I: What tools are available to make a healthy economy that creates abundance and values everyone?
October 18th: Healthy Community Economy Part II: How will we use those tools to create inclusive abundance here?
November 15th: TBA: You help decide!
December 13th: TBA: You help decide!

Do you have issues you'd like to learn about? We want you to help guide this series. We'll also add on smaller group sessions to explore and work on particular issues and projects in more depth. Contact info@danecountytimebank.org or 608 443-8229 with your suggestions. Could be transportation, energy, food, housing, arts. Could be skills you want to learn, books or films you want to discuss. Our goal is for people to know what they need to know to create the communities they want to live in! The series will go as long as there's participation.