Here’s how it works

The concept is simple. For every hour of service provided to another Time Bank member you earn one Time Dollar. Time Dollars are a community currency that members earn by using their time, energy, skills, and talents to help others. Time Banking is about local individuals, organizations or business’s helping each other in one-to–one exchanges or in group projects. Members help rebuild neighborhood networks and strengthen communities.

You, the Member can spend your Time Dollars on any number of services such as tickets to events, minor home repair, health care, computer assistance, music lessons, voice lessons, transportation, haircuts, and English tutoring. You can even save them up for future use. Members of Hour Exchange Portland help each other in ways that family and neighbors have traditionally done.

It’s your choice, it’s your time!

Time Bank exchanges

This cartoon shows how the exchanges among Time Bank members happen and the kinds of services the members of a Time Bank might exchange.