SWEL Timebank orientation Wednesday November 9

I can clean your gutters while you bake a pie, tutor a kid, or run an errand for a sick neighbor.

This is how timebanking works. Timebank members can tend to the niceties and the necessities of life while getting to know their neighbors' talents. Best of all, the SWEL Timebank is coming to Shoreline this week.

Community Potluck and SWEL Timebank Orientation

(Shoreline Woodway Edmonds Lake Forest Park)

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Shoreline Library

345 NE 175th St, Shoreline, WA 98155

Bring a yummy dish to share!

If you know that you want to join SWEL, feel free to bring these three items:

A completed application (found here)

Picture ID

Phone numbers for two personal references

What are timebanks?

There are over 100 successful timebanks in the United States, including the Eastside Timebank, which serves the cities of Kirkland, Redmond, and Bellevue. Timebanks use a low overhead, self-organizing internet based system to help people exchange their talents and passions with other members so that they can enjoy the necessities and niceties of life. Read more.

How do timebanks work?

An hour you spend doing something for a SWEL Timebank member goes into the bank as one time hour. You can then use this time hour having another SWEL member do something for you.

Timebanking is different than bartering because you can provide a service to one member and receive a service from someone else. All services are tax-exempt, and each hour of service is of equal value.