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 , 2013.

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.

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New expanded second edition for 2013

How to Order a Copy

Paperback available for $27.00, from

Purchase Hometown Money as a PDF for $17.00:

* LOCAL CURRENCY-- the basics
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 HOUR Town
* HISTORY AND FUTURE of local currency-- 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)
* JOBS-- the larger process of economic development
* FURTHER READING (see also below)

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21-40 copies @ $17 each
41-80 copies @ $14 each 81 or more @ $11 each

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