Turning Brains Into Cash: Complementary Currency

The Worldwide Help Desk for Complementary Currency Systems, an initiative of the Strohalm Foundation, is located at:http://www.complementarycurrency.org/helpdesk.html .  We invite you to visit this website to see the services that we offer to individuals and groups who are working to implement, or better manage their complementary currency system.In addition to a Frequently Asked Questions file, and a number of practical and useful documents, we have just added a Knowledgebase which we will be building and developing over time in collaboration with those who are using it.  We have also just created a Help Desk Discussion Group, where those who are involved in the implementation and management of complementary currency systems can discuss "nuts and bolts" issues together to find solutions to the real-world challenges that we face.   These are easily accessed from the link above.You are invited to make use of these tools, and for those with practical experience in implementing and managing a complementary currency system of any type, to become involved as an advisor to startup and ongoing complementary currency systems from around the world.  Strohalm started this initiative a year ago, and today we are already advising some 25 groups worldwide on the practical issues related to the implementation of a wide variety of complementary currency systems that are best suited to their location and goals of the community.In the coming months, we will be building a Spanish - Portuguese language companion, to improve our delivery of services to the many new complementary currency systems being formed in Central and South America, through our regional offices in Honduras, El Salvador and Brazil.We would also like to take this opportunity to announce the recent completion of www.complementarycurrency.org, the Complementary Currency Resource Center, and an upgrade to www.appropriate-economics.org, the website for Local Exchange Systems in Asia, Africa and Latin America.  We encourage you to take a look around these websites and make use of them.And lastly, we invite you to record your Complementary Currency System in the "Worldwide Database of CC Systems" at http://www.complementarycurrency.org/ccDatabase/les_public.html.  The database will be multilingual in the coming weeks.You are welcome to forward this message to your colleagues and other lists.Regards,Stephen DeMeulenaereCo - Coordinator, Worldwide Help Desk for Complementary Currency SystemsAsia Program CoordinatorStrohalm Foundationwww.strohalm.nl / www.strohalm.org