Tools

inverted pyramid of meeting needs

Mutual Aid Networks can become systemic economic drivers when we use cooperative economic tools to compensate ourselves and each other for our work.

Click these links to learn more about each economic tool:

Sharing

Timebanking

Price-based Mutual Credit

Common Good community wealth-building debit card

Common Fund cooperative saving and lending/giving pool

Click these links to begin using each economic tool:

Timebanking - you're here, where you can earn and exchange HUMAN hours.

If you were a member of the late great Dane County TimeBank, we'll honor your hours in the MAN network if you want to bring your balance with you, or you can start fresh like the old-time jubilees.

Common Good community wealth-building debit card

Madison MAN Cooperative Common Fund

We also use software, apps, and other communication tools to manage peer-to-peer and cooperative work.

Use this site to post your local offers and wants, and connect with local projects.

Use our HOME open source tech ecosystem to manage your projects' work flows and mass communications. Here is a one-hour HOME Economics 101 video, an overview of the cooperative economic practices we're connecting and the tech tools we're using to support those.