Mission

The Arroyo S.E.C.O. Network of Time Banks (ASNTB) is a local exchange system designed to inspire trust and reciprocity. It is a collective working towards empowering the community by facilitating cooperative trade. Time Banking is built on the idea that each of us has unique gifts, talents and resources to share and that everyone’s time is equal. The ASNTB aims to encourage systemic social change and economic equality.

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About Time Banking

What is Time Banking? At its most basic level, Time Banking is simply about spending an hour doing something for somebody in your community. That hour goes into the Time Bank as a Time Credit. Then you have a Time credit to spend on having someone doing something for you. It’s a simple idea, but it has powerful ripple effects in building community connections.

Time Bank members use a simple Internet-based system to list the services they want to give and receive. The website introduces Time Bank members to each other, facilitates the exchange of services and keeps track of the hours exchanged.  We also have monthly potlucks where members can meet each other and set up service exchanges.

With Time Banking, you will be working with a small group of committed individuals who are joined together for a common good. It connects you to the best in people because it creates a system that connects unmet needs with untapped resources. To see what happens each week when you are part of Time Bank is deeply fulfilling, especially if you are helping to make it run.

Time Banks are at the center of a dynamic movement to preserve families, rebuild communities, affect systemic change, and promote transformation around the world. It has taken root in over 35 countries and continues to grow.

Core Values

Time Banks exist to promote exchanges that honor five core values.

• We are all assets – Everyone has something to offer. No one knows or does everything, and everyone knows and can do something.

• Some work is valuable beyond market price – and that work needs to be recognized and rewarded. Everyone benefits when we work toward raising healthy children, building strong families, revitalizing neighborhoods, living sustainably, and fostering social justice.

• Helping works better as a two-way street. When neighbors help one another, we are all stronger. The community we create offers a greater reward than simply the sum of the work done.

• We need each other. Alone, we are limited in what we can achieve. Networks are stronger than individuals. When we work together, we can build the world we envision.

• Every human being matters. There are no throwaway people. Everybody has something to offer, and has unmet needs as well.

About the Arroyo S.E.C.O. Network of Time banks

The Arroyo S.E.C.O Network of Time Banks is a volunteer-led initiative that strives to create a community-wide circle of giving to encourage people to volunteer their talents and receive, in return, help with their unmet needs. You can become involved with The Arroyo S.E.C.O Network of Time Banks in many different ways: you can be an individual member, join as a family or as a company/non-profit. You can also help us organize and run the Time Bank by volunteering your time with your local leadership team as a coordinator. Whatever your passion is, we have a need for it in the Time Bank, on some level, somewhere.

Members of the Arroyo S.E.C.O Network of Time Banks live or work in the following neighborhoods in Los Angeles; Pasadena, Altadena, North East Los Angeles, Echo Park, Silverlake, Los Feliz, Glendale, Lincoln Heights, Boyle Heights, Downtown Los Angeles, Westlake, West Adams and Koreatown.

The Arroyo S.E.C.O. Network of Time Banks is a project of Arroyo S.E.C.O.

Read the more about the history of the Arroyo S.E.C.O. Network of Time Banks

Arroyo S.E.C.O. Network of Time Banks  +  213-973-BANK (2265)  +  arroyosecotimebank@gmail.com