KoinNews 8 May 24

Discover the best time banking platform and time banking app and start growing your social capital today. In many ways, it really is a new economy.

A promise made. A promise kept. “Because I said I would” is a social movement and nonprofit dedicated to the betterment of humanity through promises made and kept. We are changing lives through character development programs and volunteer projects in partnership with schools, juvenile detention centers, prisons and communities.

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The modern global economy is characterized by intense competition, often leading to serious inequalities and an overall lack of social well-being. In contrast, a cooperative economy emphasizes mutual aid, shared ownership, and collective decision-making. This article will explore what a cooperative economy is, how it differs from a competitive economy, and why

Ideally, a Community Service Organization (CSO) would help anyone and everyone that asked for help but, in the current climate of ever-dwindling resources, can you actually help everyone? As resources become scarcer, Community Service Organizations may need to start triaging the situations of their recipients to decide how they can best help those that are

Edgar Cahn began a movement almost 40 years ago that is changing lives, organizations and communities. His time banking innovation values everyone's time the same and allows for children and seniors to participate more fully in society.

Whether you're representing a town, city, region, or country, TimeBanks.Org are committed to building and strengthening TimeBank communities around the world.

The Evolution of Giving: An Exploration of Time Banking as a Community Development Instrument. This paper is intended to synthesize academic research and anecdotal accounts on a relatively young and unknown innovation in human capital economics; the time banking system introduced by Teruko Mizushima in 1973 and developed further by Edgar S. Cahn and associates in the 1990s. A system of human capital management designed to foster mutual aid in communities, time banking has grown into an international movement. Though its potential has been bolstered by the advent of online time banking software and reinforced by positive reception from research publications—it remains a little-known area of study in public discourse.

How helping the poor became big business. In 1964, president Lyndon B. Johnson declared “unconditional war on poverty,” and since then, federal spending on anti-poverty initiatives has steadily ballooned. The federal government now devotes hundreds of billions of dollars a year to programs that exclusively or disproportionately benefit low-income Americans, including housing subsidies, food stamps, welfare, and tax credits for working poor families. (This is true even if you exclude Medicaid, the single-biggest such program.)

Give a man to fish and he eats for a day, teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime. The problem with addressing poverty, in many cases, is that we are addressing it with a top-down, single-direction approach where the “haves” simply give to the “have nots” (keeping them dependent and powerless) rather than teaching them to become independent, self-sufficient and empowered. We need a system where those in need are empowered to meet their needs independently.

It is, perhaps, the most vexing paradox of the modern American economy. The median household income, adjusted for inflation, has risen by over 30% in the last four decades — and yet the average American family can barely afford to buy a nice home, to send the kids to university, to access high quality health care.

The U.S. national debt is at 34.7 trillion dollars. If you laid that many dollar bills end-to-end, it would wrap around the Earth 134,599 times. That’s enough to travel to the sun and back 17 times. Suffice it to say, we’re in a pickle.

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In April, the FBI released its annual Internet Crime Report, evaluating all complaints logged via its Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). According to the Bureau's analysis, losses connected to cybercrime complaints were $12.5 billion in 2023, up $2 billion year-over-year and more than triple the amount recorded in 2019 despite the number of complaints less than doubling compared to four years prior.