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Hello! We are extremely pleased to announce that one of our first eight Mutual Aid Network pilot sites is launching its crowdfunding campaign TODAY! Help awesome people in rural Bergnek South Africa to pool their time, talents, and other resources to make a clinic there. They’ve already increased access to fresh water and have created…
Hello! Our crowdfunding campaign just went live!! Please click this link and give some money. I really like our new video, and hope you do too! And of course I REALLY like the map of our first eight pilot sites! I can’t wait to see that map fill up over time… Thanks for your support.…
Hello! Our crowdfunding campaign starts Tuesday December 1 at 7am CST at generosity.com. Please be ready to help as soon as it starts! We need our friends to help plant seeds. I’ll send another reminder with details, in time for you to take action. I’m excited to share our new video with you! I’ve been…
Black Friday. Cyber Monday. Giving Tuesday. Eek. Ick. Let’s cash in! We’ll be launching a crowdfunding campaign for Mutual Aid Networks in time to cash in on Cyber Monday and Giving Tuesday, two of the newest holidays brought to you by late capitalism. For those of you not in the US or somehow otherwise blissfully…
Hello, I’m taking another detour from our previously scheduled series of updates (yes I still plan to share writing on the Impact Economy Summit from early October!) to share some milestones that have happened recently. All very exciting! First, the Dane County TimeBank (DCTB), parent to Mutual Aid Networks, celebrated our 10th birthday with a…
Hello! As I mentioned in my last post, this is a big week jam-packed with events to take advantage of the presence of the fabulous Kathy Perlow, founder of the Neighbor-to-Neighbor Care Team model of timebanking that we’re starting to adopt here. So my reports for each event might be a little bit cursory, because…
Hello! In my last post I mentioned we have a big week coming up. That’s because Kathy Perlow is coming to visit us! From Lehigh Valley Pennsylvania, Kathy is the developer of the Neighbor-to-Neighbor (N2N) Care Team model of timebanking. Kathy has recently retired from a 13-year career developing and running an award-winning hospital-based timebank…
Hello! Things are cranking here with Mutual Aid Network development and Dane County TimeBank. Over the last couple weeks we have held several Main MAN work group meetings and a board meeting and have created our road map toward opening for membership by mid-April. The Main MAN is the Mutual Aid Network Cooperative we have…
We held a Builders Workshop, the 20th in our 2 year (nearly-) monthly work and learn series, last Wed. January 28. The title was “Mutual Aid in Dane County and Beyond” and the focus was on how work in and around Dane County TimeBank is coalescing in ways that make us ripe to go granular,…
Hello! A lot has been happening in every level of our work. And the kind of work needed for each level of cooperative economic organizing is self-similar, which makes it a bit easier to grapple with it all. First, Dane County TimeBank (DCTB) continues to undergo a beautiful transformation and our new Board of Directors…