Edgar Cahn

Edgar Cahn is a longstanding social activist, the originator of Time Dollars, the creator of the Co-Production principle, the founder of TimeBanksUSA, co-founder of the National Legal Services Program and the Antioch School of Law (now the David A. Clarke School of Law) and the author of a number of books including No More Throwaway People. More on Edgar at timebanks.org/about'board-of-directors.
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The Time Banking Way of Giving and Receiving Gifts

Edgar Cahn, the founder of Time Banks, joins Robert Thompson and co-host Mike Neiss in their latest installment of their Leadership and the Common Good series on blogtalkradio. What exactly is Time Banking? Why has Cahn dedicated much of his life to this effort? Their exploration...

Time Banking: Edgar Cahn and Peter Block on Thought Grenades

Peter and Edgar Cahn, the founder of TimeBanks, join Robert Thompson and co-host, Mike Neiss in their latest installment of Leadership and the Common Good. What exactly is TimeBanking and why has Cahn dedicated much of his life to this effort? Cahn answers this question and more...

Time Banking: An Idea Whose Time Has Come

  An event sponsored by a time bank in Lathrup Village, Michigan. Photo courtesy of Michigan Municipal League   Ten years ago, Susan Dentzler of NPR was retained by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to investigate whether time banking (a system that lets people swap...

Edgar Cahn Interview with Jon Snow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8R6VkqvsBY Going Further: Time Banking: An Idea Whose Time Has Come? (by Edgar Cahn) The Lathrup Village Time Bank (video post) For more on what time banks are and how they work, try http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR8ArHGgA7A&feature;=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqk5HzOQpzQ&feature;=fvsr http://www.timebanks.org/ http://www.youtube.com/user/TimeBanksUSA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-6h_7krYHA