Hometown Money: How to Enrich Your Community with Local Currency

Ithaca HOURS

Community Currency
since 1991

This website is maintained by the founder of Ithaca HOURS. The official website of the Ithaca HOURS board of directors is at ithacahours.org Paul Glover consults for grassroots economic development as GreenPlanners.

Hometown Money

BOOK & VIDEO

Hometown Money: How to Enrich Your Community with Local Currency, 100pp.

By Paul Glover paul5glover@yahoo.com, 1995.

The founder of Ithaca HOURS explains step-by-step how to start up and maintain a local currency system. Since 1991, $110,000 of Ithaca HOURS, worth $10 each, have been issued and used by thousands of residents, including 500 businesses and over 100 community organizations, adding millions of dollars of trading to Ithaca's Grassroots Local Product.

(215) 805-8330

How to Order a Copy

Available for $27.00, from Tompkins County Workers' Center, 115 The Commons, Ithaca, NY 14850. Add $10.00 for shipping overseas. You can also purchase Hometown Money by donating $27 via Paypal to the Workers Rights Center and providing your name and address. Video or DVD also available (specify) for $17 (add $5 overseas).
Download book for $17.00.

What it is
How it works
Who benefits-- Success Stories!
Recipe for Successful Local Currency

PHILOSOPHY-- local self-reliance, shopping locally

PROGRESS REPORTS-- size, growth, fame, letters to Ithaca Money

HISTORY AND FUTURE of local currency-- 1933 Scrip, HOUR World

STEP-BY-STEP
- Design & print money
- Toolbox
- Issuing Money
- Publishing your barter list
- Promotion & publicity
- Forms
- Counterfeit Protection
- Funding
- Filing
- Spanish Translation
- Legality

RELATED LOCAL TRADING SYSTEMS
- Swapping
- Store notes
- Time Dollars
- LETS (Green Dollars)

GROWING JOBS-- the larger process of economic development

Quantity Discounts

Bookstores and schools may purchase HOURs Starter Kits in quantity at the following rates:

10-20 copies @ $20 each

21-40 copies @ $17 each

41-80 copies @ $14 each

81 or more @ $11 each

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