Let’s build a Healthy Community Economy Here and Now

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

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Let’s build a Healthy Community Economy Here

and NowDo-it-Together Economic Justice and Community Resilience

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

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What if money were no object?

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Is Money an Object?

But wait...

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ob·ject

Noun:A material thing that can be

seen and touched.

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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.

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What is an Economy?

Distributed system for meeting people’s needs

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What Does an Economy Do?

Distribution of Work

Reciprocity

Incentives

Risk-Pooling

Resource Allocation

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TimeBanking“We have what we need if we use what we have” -- Edgar

Cahn-- Edgar Cahn-- Edgar Cahn

Community Centers

Local Business

Local Food Production

Faith-based

Social Services

Community Justice

Public & Private

Institutions

Artists & Arts Organizations

Dane County TimeBank

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Economy

MarketCommunity

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1=$10

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Price-Based Mutual Credit

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

What if money were no object?

What’s stopping you?

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We learn by doing

Trial and error

DoDo

LearnLearnFailFail

DoDo

LearnLearnSucceedSucceed

DoDo

LearnLearnFailFail

DoDo

LearnLearnFailFail

DoDo

LearnLearnSucceedSucceed

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We learn more if we share

We avoid repeating mistakes

DoDo

LearnLearnFailFail

DoDo

LearnLearnSucceedSucceed

DoDo

LearnLearnFailFail

DoDo

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DoDo

LearnLearnSucceedSucceed

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Do Better

LearnShare

We build on each other’s work

buildFTW.org

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And make new friends in the process

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

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What are we waiting for?What are we waiting for?