The Bay Area Community Exchange (BACE) is a free, online directory, communication, and time accounting system that distributes human needs and resources using a system of time credit (time currency), In more simple words, BACE is a timebank. Every hour of help or service one member gives another member earns them one hour of time credit that can be used to purchase services from another member. It's that simple!
Our timebank is a community of more than 3500 skilled members and organizations around the greater Bay Area, CA (Click Skillbank tab). Our 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.
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., visit our website at www.bace.org.