OurVillageLife

Discover meaningful connections with people who live near you.

OurVillageLife helps you discover meaningful local connections with people who live near you. Nurturing these connections enriches your local experience and naturally, gradually solves the big problems of our time. How?

▸ Local Interest groups (like growing food, playing tennis, private block clubs) help you find connections with others who live nearby.

▸ The Marketplace & TimeBank helps you make local exchanges. Ads are free, and you can buy and sell with or without dollars.

▸ TimeExchanges (or its app) enable you to record a time transaction. Exchanging time rather than dollars is more like helping a friend or family member. It puts relationship back in exchanges and gives people options, especially when there isn’t enough money for what is wanted.

The way it works is when I help you for an hour, I credit my account for that hour and debit yours. (A few clicks record the transaction.) The hour I earned helping you, I can spend by asking someone to help me. You can clear the hour you owe by helping someone. It works the same if my organization helps yours for 40 hours.

BENEFITS OF TIME EXCHANGES

It keeps dollars in our pockets.

It brings us together, builds optimism, and is sustainable.

It’s especially valuable in urgent situations.

USE TIME AS MONEY

For gigs and other projects.

To “buy” and “sell.”

To budget, evaluate, and adjust how you spend time.

GET MORE. Time exchanges are about connecting, getting closer, and helping one another. They encourage us to find out more about the people near us -- their skills, gifts, challenges, experiences, needs. The more people exchange time helping one another, the more these exchanges foster a simpler way of living and help melt big, daunting problems like poverty, polarization, and environmental pollution.

This combo of people being more connected locally and being able to make natural exchanges that have not been monetized, fosters a closer-knit, more loving community. There are many expressions of this. Jimmy Hendrix said: When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.