Welcome to Occupy Wall Street Timebank

• OWS Timebank is an OCCUPY WALL STREET Affinity Group, an elegant community building experiment  - applying substantiated  HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (HRD) generativity solutions  to the TIMEBANKS USA working model for tracking time exchanges.  

• Current Project Proposal:  to provide low income occupiers a platform for OWS training and workforce development.  The goals of this project are to demonstrate how this timebank approach can help bring about racial equality as well as cross class communication and community.  The timebank values creative cultural exchanges - the contributions of artists from all disciplines working in all mediums - from drumming to dancing, from dedicated doodlers to dream makers.

•  There is an initial orientation available for all new members available though email or at meetings. If you only want to see how it works  you can sign up here: SANDBOX DEMO SITE .

•  OWS Timebank seeks financial support to set the stage and people to spearhead the recruitment for training and development of Timebank administrative members.  Drupal developer sought to build in unique new five scale measurements!  Join Drupal and Timebank developers  around the world at the top of their field!  See ACTION HUB.

OWS Timebank is set up as a USA Timebank using the new 2.0  Drupal version.

• CORE VALUES of USA Timebank:  1. We are all assets. 2. Some Work is beyond price. 3. Helping works better as a two-way street. 4. We need each other. 5. And every human being matters. See http://timebanks.org/about

• ACTION HUB: USA Timebank Action Hub component allows drupal developers to experiment and improve upon the system.

• MAINTENANCE COST is about $1 per person per year. Currently, during development, OWS Timebank is at no cost. 

ADMINISTRATOR  Jill Turner M.A. Human Resource Development and lifelong performing artist and activist www.jillturner.com, started the OWS Timebank December 8, 2011. OWS Timebank is an OWS Affinity Group seeking to add value to the movement and provide a global model for a creative economic insurgency.