Our Leadership Team has come up with some important planning for 2020:

Mission:

The Mission of the Tampa Bay Timebank is to build community by encouraging members to share their talents, skills and passions, while supporting Tampa Bay activities that are in alignment with our vision, and creating meaningful exchanges between members using time, instead of money, as the currency.

Goals to support this Mission for 2020:

·      Teach the Tampa Bay Area about Timebanking.

·      Apply the values, innovations and tools of timebanking to communities and organizations of the Tampa Bay area. 

·      Share the values of Timebanking with individuals and organizations of the Tampa Bay Area, including the Tampa City Council and various educational     institutions of the area.  

·      Increase active membership to create more opportunities for increased quality of life for our members.

·      Mobilize members’ neighborhoods to meet community needs through regional hubs.

·      Enable neighborhoods to contribute as assets in community service.

·      Strengthen the bonds between neighbors and neighborhoods in Tampa Bay.

·      Engage in “co-production” in which we support the activities of other organizations for mutual benefit.

·      Enable neighborhoods to contribute as assets in community service.

·      Work with at least one civic association: Tampa Heights or Seminole Heights, for example.

Objectives (Shared Intentions) for 2020

·      Run quarterly Introduction to Timebanking sessions.

·      Establish and sustain regional hubs that meet monthly.

·      Plan to have Gathering with a Purpose in 2021. *

·      Provide orientations for new members.

·      Engage current members in exchanges.

·      Involve more people in doing work for the Timebank itself.

·      Report an increasing number of exchanges representing more hours of service reflecting the dynamics of shared values that meet members’ needs.

·      Encourage high school students to choose TampaBayTimebank for their community service.

hOurworld News

We believe in Open Innovation! We implement the best ideas of our members and coordinators. This broad based co-production model of networking and development affords us all the best tools for sustaining our local communities!


We believe in removing ALL the barriers to time banking that we can. Access to the hOurworld platform is FREE. It is easy for new members to join and learn, and easy for coordinators to manage and report on their members and activity.

We believe in supporting local diversity while maintaining a central cooperative organization to provide accessible support, training, and communications. We are documenting and teaching these models.

We believe that every member have control over their own privacy and content. We operate on private secure servers and HIPPA compliant data centers where all information is encrypted before going out on the internet.

We believe that time banking is one spoke in a wheel of Movements Moving Together. We foster local community organizations drawing together to create powerful local economies as they integrate CSA, Food Co-op, Buy Local, Transition Town, BALLE, CAP and others. The opportunities are endless!

All the Best from hOurworld