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About Together We Can
The Together We Can – Newburgh Timebank was created to foster service to others and create a stronger community fabric within The City of Newburgh. Remember when if you needed help with something, a friendly neighbor would volunteer to help without expecting monetary compensation? For many, depending on their age, the answer to that question, unfortunately, is no. The Together We Can Timebank was created to bring back that sense of community within The City of Newburgh. By utilizing the Together We Can Timebank website: www.togetherwecan.timebanks.org, people can log acts of service and get help with things that they may need in return – all without relying on money to accomplish their needs. |
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How does timebanking work?
Everyone in our community has something to offer. Timebanking starts by offering your skillset to help someone else who needs your services. Everyone's time is worth the same.
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When you help someone you earn time credits through the Timebank. One hour of help is worth one time credit.
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Once you have one or more time credits, you can exchange those to get someone's help with something you need.
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As more and more people join the Timebank a community of time bankers is formed which allows greater opportunities for people to get the help they need.
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What is timebanking?
Why Newburgh?
In Newburgh, where so many of us are underemployed or unemployed, timebanking is a solution not just for overcoming divides of race, age, or socioeconomic status, but it is a way to get things done when we don’t have the funds to hire someone to do it. Have a leaky faucet and can’t afford to hire a plumber? List it in the timebank. Need help shoveling your snow in the winter? List it in the timebank.
By giving to others in what ever way we can, we earn credit to get our own individual needs met, and the community becomes stronger as a whole as people develop relationships and get out to interact with and help one another.
In Newburgh, where so many of us are underemployed or unemployed, timebanking is a solution not just for overcoming divides of race, age, or socioeconomic status, but it is a way to get things done when we don’t have the funds to hire someone to do it. Have a leaky faucet and can’t afford to hire a plumber? List it in the timebank. Need help shoveling your snow in the winter? List it in the timebank.
By giving to others in what ever way we can, we earn credit to get our own individual needs met, and the community becomes stronger as a whole as people develop relationships and get out to interact with and help one another.
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Interested, but have questions?
Feel free to contact us. We'd be happy to answer any questions you may have. |
Interested in joining?
Visit www.togetherwecan.timebanks.org to get started! |
I can do things you cannot. You can do things I cannot. Together we can do great things " -- Mother Teresa
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