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Let’s build a Healthy Community Economy Here and Now

Let’s build a Healthy Community Economy Here and Now. Do-it-Together Economic Justice and Community Resilience. What would you do to improve your community if you could?. What if money were no object?. Is Money an Object?. But wait. ob·ject. Noun:

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Let’s build a Healthy Community Economy Here and Now

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  1. Let’s build a Healthy Community Economy Here and Now Do-it-Together Economic Justice and Community Resilience

  2. What would you do to improve your community if you could?

  3. What if money were no object?

  4. Is Money an Object? But wait...

  5. ob·ject • Noun: • A material thing that can be seen and touched.

  6. mon·ey 1. A medium that can be exchanged for goods and services and is used as a measure of their values on the market, including among its forms a commodity such as gold, an officially issued coin or note, or a deposit in a checking account or other readily liquefiable account. 2. The official currency, coins, and negotiable paper notes issued by a government. MONEY IS AN AGREEMENT.

  7. What is an Economy? • Distributed system for meeting people’s needs

  8. What Does an Economy Do? • Distribution of Work • Reciprocity • Incentives • Risk-Pooling • Resource Allocation

  9. We have options • TimeBanking • Community-Issued Currency • Price-based Mutual Credit • Commercial Credit Circuits • Community Banking • Cooperative Ownership

  10. TimeBanking“We have what we need if we use what we have” -- Edgar Cahn Social Services Community Centers Community Justice Public & Private Institutions Local Business Dane County TimeBank Artists & Arts Organizations Local Food Production Faith-based

  11. Community Market Economy

  12. 1=$10

  13. Price-Based Mutual Credit

  14. Commercial Credit Circuits

  15. Community Banking

  16. Cooperative Ownership

  17. What would you do to improve your community if you could? • What if money were no object? • What’s stopping you?

  18. We learn by doing Do Do Learn Learn Fail Succeed Do Do Succeed Learn Do Learn Fail Fail Learn Trial and error

  19. We learn more if we share Do Do Learn Learn Fail Succeed Do Do Succeed Learn Do Learn Fail Fail Learn We avoid repeating mistakes

  20. We build on each other’s work Do Better Learn Share buildFTW.org

  21. And make new friends in the process

  22. We all know ways we want our world to be better.

  23. What are we waiting for?

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