CONTACT THE GLCC
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993 Tucker Rd., Suite A
Hood River, OR 97031
Phone: 541.806.3256
OR
541.386.4074 (se habla español)
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Advertising is the most common way to join the GLCC. For $24 (half of which may be paid in RH), you receive four listings on our web site for one year. Everyone receives 1RH to begin spending. You also have one vote in cooperative meetings and can become a member of the GLCC Steering Committee.
If you'd like to support the GLCC's mission, but don't want to have listings, that's OK too. We'll just add your name to a list of GLCC supporters so everyone knows you help promote strong local economics.
Get your own set of uncirculated RiverHOURS currency! One each of all three RiverHOURS denominations along with a certificate of authenticity for $35.
Make your check out to the Columbia Gorge Earth Center.
Write RiverHOURS or GLCC on the memo line to be sure the amount is credited to us. The GLCC has a fund administration agreement with the CGEC, allowing us under their 501(c)3 umbrella.
Click here to donate online
Your acknowledgement will appear in the next issue of the RiverHOURS trade directory. The deadline for new advertising is about two weeks before the directory goes to press. Contact the GLCC for current deadlines.
OR
Print out and complete the form below, indicating the advertiser category, the goods or services you offer, and mail it to us with a check or money order at:
Gorge Local Currency Cooperative
993 Tucker Rd., Suite A
Hood River, OR 97031
Send the form, with a check or money order to the address listed, with a self-addressed, stamped envelope (SASE) so we can mail your RiverHOURS to you. Do NOT send cash. Your listings will appear in the next issue of the RiverHOURS Trade Directory. The deadline for new advertiserss is about two weeks before the directory goes to press. Contact the GLCC for current deadlines.
GLCC Advertiser Application Form (PDF)
Proudly display that your business accepts RiverHOURS!
Download and print the file below to let your customers know that you accept RiverHOURS.
Local Currency Accepted Here (PDF)
If you have questions or concerns, contact us, we would love to talk with you more about RiverHOURS.
Thank you for making local currency more viable in our community
We look forward to seeing you as a new member of the GLCC!
by Karen Harding
You might think that the RiverHOURS in your hand are a paper currency, but you would only be partly right. Or you might think that the real RiverHOURS are the flow of services and goods that they represent, but you are still only partly right. The most important part of RiverHOURS is actually the network of people who create and use that flow. Now that our Trade Directory has moved online, we have an opportune time to review, renew, and enhance our ‘network of people’ connections.
Our goal back in 2004 was to have 100 members in order to launch the RiverHOURS system, by printing the money and a quarterly Trade Directory. Over the years 176 individuals and businesses have joined the Gorge Local Currency Cooperative (GLCC); but never all at the same time!
We did not intend to, but by starting so close to the paradigm of ‘money’ as our culture knows it, with a paper currency and advertising listings, we brought along many of the assumptions and habit patterns that are part of our modern money system. Let’s face it, our general money culture is ME thinking rather than WE thinking. Folks who joined the GLCC for RiverHOURS no doubt had the good intention of wanting to change some of those patterns, but old habits can be hard to shake.
Webster’s defines a network as an association of individuals having a common interest and often providing mutual assistance, information, etc. Many folks joined GLCC assuming that our local currency network’s common interest was enhancing our individual incomes as a viable addition to the Federal Reserve Notes (FRN) system. Some joined assuming that this new, relatively inexpensive, avenue for advertising their goods and services would enhance their businesses. Many people with those expectations have been disappointed. Perhaps in examining those ‘failures’ we may come to refine our assumptions to be more realistic, yet still positively worth the effort to sustain this network.
Our most oft heard complaint is:
Public: ”There are not enough places to spend RiverHOURS.”
GLCC: “Oh, so we need more members.”
Public: ”But they need to be members offering goods and services that we actually need!”
GLCC: “Oh, so we need better members, with more basic goods and services.”
Our second most oft heard complaint is:
Public: ”No one is spending RH with me for my goods and services. I got no calls on my listings.”
GLCC: “Oh, so we need better members willing to spend RH on non-basic goods and services.
Our third most oft heard complaint:
Public: ”I am receiving too many RH, and it is too much trouble to spend them.”
GLCC: “Oh, so we need more members that are willing to make some effort to make the system work.”
We need practice in using a currency with a larger goal than obtaining the barest necessities for ourselves. What if we took a year practicing trading RH for more than the basics? What if our goal was to make a connection with as many people in the network as possible, trying new goods and services that we had never considered in our oh-so- practical, money grubbing economy? What if our own non-basic goods and service offerings were thereby honed to be more valuable through expanded trading and feedback?
This Local Currency Education Project is a joint venture of
Columbia Gorge Earth Center & Gorge Local Currency Cooperative
updated August 23, 2011
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