Reciprocal exchanges work best within a community.

LOVE:Bank Accounts are only available to residents, businesses & organizations in and around Lake Oswego, Oregon. Our purpose is to tap the potential wealth of our community's time, talents, skills, surplus goods and services to create new value locally. Reciprocal exchanges, and the trust they entail, work best within a community in which social capital – the quality and quantity of relationships – can grow. Locality helps to ensure the value of our complementary currency and provide for the transparency needed to facilitate reciprocal exchanges.

Your Friendship and participation in reciprocal exchanges help to strengthen our local core economy: home, family, neighborhood and community right here in and around Lake Oswego. Should other communities wish to emulate our model, we may easily share it because it is built from Open Source Software.

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