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Hello, Our tenth Builders Workshop happened to fall on the one year anniversary of the Builders Workshops series. Happy birthday to us! This workshop focused on the intersection of timebanking and the arts. About fifteen people attended, representing various communities and artistic disciplines. Among the participants were the staff-person for the City of Madison’s arts…
Hello We had another wonderful Builders Workshop on January 17. This one was focused on TimeBanking and Community Justice. Attendees included Lindsey Draper of Wisconsin’s Office of Justice Assistance, Madison Municipal Judge Dan Koval, and several people from Dane County Court Diversion, in addition to our usual array of members and interested passersby with a…
Hello! Builders Workshop #8: TimeBanking and Cooperatives: Better Together? — this was a really interesting and somewhat different Builders Workshop. We decided to maintain a pretty internal focus. I didn’t send a press release or encourage far-flung participation (although it was available – our only taker asked at a time that day that I wasn’t…
Hello! Builders Workshop #7: Healthy Community Economy Part II was a great wrap-up of our explorations, from the Healthy Community Economy Part I workshop as well as the intervening Economic Democracy Conference, of how multiple currency/cooperative economic models could work in concert to achieve powerful community goals. In the Economic Democracy Conference open space Action…
Hello! Our September 20 Builders Workshop, Healthy Community Economy Part I, was a great introduction to some additional cooperative economic models we’re considering building with here at the Dane County TimeBank. More than 30 people from 16 organizations attended. We presented the slides, attached, and Leander Bindewald joined online from London to fill us in…
Hello! Our workshop yesterday went really well. We had about 35 participants representing 14 different community organizations – including McFarland School District, Dane County Dept. of Human Services, SEIU Nurses’ Union Local, two local universities and more. We’ll add notes and video from our discussion when they’re ready but, due to high demand, we want…
Hello! The July 19 Builders Workshop, TimeBanking and Health: Focus on the Wellness Project, was very productive and engaging despite some technical difficulties. This is a summary of our own workshop, giving you all the material (see at the bottom) needed to host your own session on the topic in your community. Feel free to…
Hello all, Today is Builders’ Workshop #3, the third installment of the Work-and-learn series created and hosted by Dane County TimeBank and Build For the World. At today’s workshop we’ll play, for the first time ever, the Build A Better World Board Game. This will prepare us to go out into a couple neighborhoods and…
Hello! We had about 45 people at yesterday’s Builders’ Workshop from around here, plus Alison Basile and Greg Bloom of the DC TimeBank who joined us via Webex (thanks to them for helping us work through trying that out our first time! We learned how to do it better next time). We’re working on putting…