By Abby Greer and Pam de Ocampo | Project Leaders
Hello from our TimeBanks.Org Team!
Since our last update, we have some exciting news for you but we want to first share this recent story about how timebanking impacted Sandy’s life:
“I recently lost my life partner Cecil of 11 years back at the beginning of the pandemic. I was distraught and scared with no income coming in. The founder of the St. Pete Timebank, BJ Andryusky, arranged a food train, donations and support on my behalf helping me through a very difficult time. I am truly blessed by the community outpour of support from the St. Pete Timebank. It was very comforting to have someone call me every week to check on me and to see if I needed anything. They also did that for the elderly members in our Timebank as well. This is the most charitable group of people that I am happy to be a part of.” - Sandy from the St. Pete Timebank, Florida, USA
We send our deepest condolences to Sandy and at the same time, we are moved that her timebank community was there for her.
New Leadership at TimeBanks.Org
We are now officially TimeBanks.Org and are doing some rebranding and streamlining - new look, new logo, and most important, a new Executive Director! We welcome Krista Wyatt who realizes the potential of a relationship-driven movement powered by reciprocity. Krista has an instinctive preference for partnering over hierarchy, and an appreciation of the visionary impact that every hour that we give is priceless because it is our slice of eternity. (see team photo below)
Thank you for helping us provide MORE software features for Coordinators!
We are committed to providing cutting-edge software so that our coordinators can manage their timebanks and their members can intuitively and easily find each other, make exchanges and view offers and requests. Timebank coordinators are taking advantage of our newest feature for their Community Weaver Software - the TAG. The St. Pete Florida timebank is using the new tag feature to filter all of their members who are earning or spending time credits with their youth program with one click. Not only does this allow for easy communications, it also helps collect data for their timebank.
Donors like you have contributed to the improvement of our software that timebanks rely on. We currently have over 100 tickets in for new upgrades and features requested by those who are coordinating timebanks all over the world. With your continued support, we can fulfill coordinators' requests by providing more new features to make timebank exchanges so much easier.
March 8-12 is the Little by Little Matching Campaign. This means that for 5 days starting today, donations up to $50 will be matched at 50%. And if you make a monthly donation, GlobalGiving will give a one-time 100% match! Can we count on you to renew your support? Now is a good time to give.
Thank you so much for supporting a new kind of community that is based on care, kindness, respect and reciprocity.
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