The Bay Area Community Exchange (BACE) Timebank is a free, online directory, communication, and time accounting system that facilitates distributions of needs and resources using a system of giving and receiving of time credit. Every hour a member uses doing something for someone is an hour earned that can be used to purchase services from another member. It's that simple.
BACE’s Timebank is a community of more than 3500 members and organizations that offer and provide services and skills (click on the Skillbank tab). The Timebank is available to residents in Alameda, Contra Costa, Lake, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Solano, Sonoma, and Sacramento Counties as well as Davis and Jamestown.
BACE is fiscally sponsored by Local Futures, a 501 c(3) organization, which gives the BACE its non-profit status.The Timebank operates using open source coding. We are indebted to Tom Brown of Open Source Currency and Austin Time Exchange for innumerable hours of volunteer time setting up and tailoring this system for us!
To learn more about our vision/mission, staff, events, etc.: