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 Dollar. Then you have a Time dollar to spend on having someone doing something for you. It's a simple idea, but it has powerful ripple effects in building community connections. You can read more about the core values of time banking [0], find out how time banking works [0], and see answers to frequent questions [0].

The Wayne County, Indiana Time Bank exists to promote and facilitate time banking in our area. We are a not-for-profit group of volunteers seeking to bring a new model of wealth, work and service in the Richmond and Wayne County area.

The Wayne County Time Bank was created during the Institute for Creative Leadership [1]'s Spring 2007 leadership training course, where participants developed projects that would put their training to use while bringing a service or benefit to the wider community.

The founding members of the Wayne County Time Bank were:

• Ben Bryan, Parallax Systems
• Chris Hardie, Summersault Website Development
• Beth Harrick, Girls, Inc.
• Kate Harris
• Laura Retherford
• Mae Turley, Earlham College
• Tim Miller, Harrington Hoch Insurance

The Wayne County Time Bank is a just one local example of Time Banking, a phenomenon that is redefining work, wealth, and service in communities around the world. You can read more about Time Banking at http://www.timebanks.org/ [2].