Time Dollars and win-win accounting

Win-win accounting starts with the lowly volunteer hour. It's recorded in the book, a credit to the volunteer. A debit to the agency? No, a credit to the agency. They both contributed.

There are other kinds of win-win credits, such as academic credits, personal credit, play money, (including funny money) and, of great economic potential, information currency. Maybe the win-win economy is the economy of the future.

But we come back to the volunteer hour as the only win-win credit with a fixed value we can measure. We come back to the nonprofits as the guarantors and bankers for such credits.

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The Volunteer Credit Economy: an outline -- What is it, who is it for, etc.
The Volunteer Credit Economy -- A fuller description.
Spiritual Currency: Building a New Economy with Volunteer Credits The full six-chapter treatment from 1993
Glossary of Terms -- used in volunteer credit economy and win-win accounting
Inventing a Win-Win World -- The rules of win-win accounting, applied to volunteer, academic, spiritual, political, community and game economies.
Win-Win Accounting for Nonprofits and Donors -- Matching funds, the nonprofit as bank, transferable credits, project investment.
The Vision of Spiritual Economy -- We've always had a spiritual economy, among family and friends. We give them credit based on how much we love them.
Why I don't call it Spiritual Economy anymore

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Why We Need New Currencies -- Four problems with money.
Money as a False God presented to the Institute of Noetic Sciences on May 13th,1999.

USEFUL LINKS

• Time Dollars: closest thing to a volunteer economy.
• Community currencies: well-organized large list of links.
• Alternative money systems: articles, links and mail lists.
• Ithaca HOURS home page