Schaumburg Time Bank
Location
904 S Roselle Road
#224
Schaumburg, IL 60193
Profile
Mission: Our mission is to build community through neighbors helping neighbors, exchanging skills and talents
512-827-0505 #8745
Donate One Hour A Week To Your Neighborhood
Your Neighborhood Donates One Hour Back To You
A Circle of Giving Friend-to-Friend and Neighbor-to-Neighbor
If you want to make a difference in your Schaumburg neighborhood, then you've come to the right place. The Schaumburg Time Bank can help you turn your interests and passions into action through volunteering. Get connected today and register. It's free.
This Schaumburg community-based Time Banking program is offered by the ChicagoSuburbanTimeBank.org and TimeBanks.org to provide an opportunity for neighbors to help neighbors through the mutual exchange of everyday services. Using Time Dollars as an exchange instead of money allows a person to earn a Time Dollar for every hour of service provided, and then use the Time Dollars to purchase services from any member in the Time Bank. You could say it's like having a social insurance policy. "Help a neighbor and then, when you need it, a neighbor - most likely a different one - will help you."
Through the sharing of our needs and gifts, we sustain a member-driven community where everyone can be a contributor, turning "you need me" into "we need each other". It's a simple idea, but it has powerful ripple effects in building community connections.
What is a Time Bank?
A Time Bank is a community of people, business and non-profit organizations who agree to spend and earn Time Dollars. A Time Dollar is something you earn when you help a neighbor for one hour. Everyone's time is valued equally : One hour = 1 Time Dollar and you can spend that Time Dollar to meet your needs.
Time Dollars are a type of tax-exempt local community currency that anyone can earn by using their time, energy, skills, and talents to help others. Time Dollars value everyone's contribution equally, allowing each person to be a part of the solution. Volunteers can provide all types of services including senior care, house painting, gardening, minor home repair, transportation, computer maintenance, tutoring, etc. Services may vary widely depending on the skills, talents, and abilities of the current volunteers
What Kind of People Join Time Banks?
Neighbors, mothers, fathers, teenagers, college students, seniors, artist, and members of the business community.
Is There a Cost To Join?
No cost to join.
Can Local Businesses and Non-Profits join?
Yes! Non-profits have found that employers participating in Time Banking give more time and "clients" often become working participants.
How Do I Get Started? Just click on the links area at the top of the page.
Time Banks Add Value
Some of us can remember a time when family members lived close by each other and we knew most of the people living in our neighborhoods. Some of us have only heard about it. Helping each other out was a given, something we did for each other everyday. From watching someone's kids for a few hours, dropping off meals for a sickly neighbor, or just sitting with someone after a stay in the hospital, communities were full of exchanges and mutually supportive networks of family and friends.
Few people would disagree that times have changed, that these networks are gradually disappearing, and not many of us have family members nearby or neighbors we know well enough to turn to for support. There are so many things we do that would be more efficient, fun and meaningful when shared. Time Banking restores lost connections through sharing skills.
When You Do Something for Your Community, You're Community Will Do Something for You.
About the Village of Schaumburg, Illinois... Schaumburg is the largest center of economic development in the State of Illinois, outside the City of Chicago, but it is also very much a community of neighbors and neighborhoods.
Quality of life is important to us and we are constantly working to enhance it. Schaumburg boasts more than 87 miles of bike paths, the Schaumburg Prairie Center for the Arts with a 442-seat theater, gallery, outdoor stage, a drop dead beautiful baseball stadium, home to the Schaumburg Flyers, and the 135 acre Spring Valley Nature Center and Historic Farm site. Offering excellent schools, a superb park district, and superior village services, Schaumburg is a wonderful place to live, work, and raise a family. If you are planning a visit, our hotels, restaurants, and shops will make your stay comfortable.
Support and Defend The Constitution of The United States.
Your Neighborhood Donates One Hour Back To You
A Circle of Giving Friend-to-Friend and Neighbor-to-Neighbor
If you want to make a difference in your Schaumburg neighborhood, then you've come to the right place. The Schaumburg Time Bank can help you turn your interests and passions into action through volunteering. Get connected today and register. It's free.
This Schaumburg community-based Time Banking program is offered by the ChicagoSuburbanTimeBank.org and TimeBanks.org to provide an opportunity for neighbors to help neighbors through the mutual exchange of everyday services. Using Time Dollars as an exchange instead of money allows a person to earn a Time Dollar for every hour of service provided, and then use the Time Dollars to purchase services from any member in the Time Bank. You could say it's like having a social insurance policy. "Help a neighbor and then, when you need it, a neighbor - most likely a different one - will help you."
Through the sharing of our needs and gifts, we sustain a member-driven community where everyone can be a contributor, turning "you need me" into "we need each other". It's a simple idea, but it has powerful ripple effects in building community connections.
What is a Time Bank?
A Time Bank is a community of people, business and non-profit organizations who agree to spend and earn Time Dollars. A Time Dollar is something you earn when you help a neighbor for one hour. Everyone's time is valued equally : One hour = 1 Time Dollar and you can spend that Time Dollar to meet your needs.
Time Dollars are a type of tax-exempt local community currency that anyone can earn by using their time, energy, skills, and talents to help others. Time Dollars value everyone's contribution equally, allowing each person to be a part of the solution. Volunteers can provide all types of services including senior care, house painting, gardening, minor home repair, transportation, computer maintenance, tutoring, etc. Services may vary widely depending on the skills, talents, and abilities of the current volunteers
What Kind of People Join Time Banks?
Neighbors, mothers, fathers, teenagers, college students, seniors, artist, and members of the business community.
Is There a Cost To Join?
No cost to join.
Can Local Businesses and Non-Profits join?
Yes! Non-profits have found that employers participating in Time Banking give more time and "clients" often become working participants.
How Do I Get Started? Just click on the links area at the top of the page.
Time Banks Add Value
Some of us can remember a time when family members lived close by each other and we knew most of the people living in our neighborhoods. Some of us have only heard about it. Helping each other out was a given, something we did for each other everyday. From watching someone's kids for a few hours, dropping off meals for a sickly neighbor, or just sitting with someone after a stay in the hospital, communities were full of exchanges and mutually supportive networks of family and friends.
Few people would disagree that times have changed, that these networks are gradually disappearing, and not many of us have family members nearby or neighbors we know well enough to turn to for support. There are so many things we do that would be more efficient, fun and meaningful when shared. Time Banking restores lost connections through sharing skills.
When You Do Something for Your Community, You're Community Will Do Something for You.
About the Village of Schaumburg, Illinois... Schaumburg is the largest center of economic development in the State of Illinois, outside the City of Chicago, but it is also very much a community of neighbors and neighborhoods.
Quality of life is important to us and we are constantly working to enhance it. Schaumburg boasts more than 87 miles of bike paths, the Schaumburg Prairie Center for the Arts with a 442-seat theater, gallery, outdoor stage, a drop dead beautiful baseball stadium, home to the Schaumburg Flyers, and the 135 acre Spring Valley Nature Center and Historic Farm site. Offering excellent schools, a superb park district, and superior village services, Schaumburg is a wonderful place to live, work, and raise a family. If you are planning a visit, our hotels, restaurants, and shops will make your stay comfortable.
Support and Defend The Constitution of The United States.