Projects
The Complementary Currency Resource Center is part of a network of community developers, social entrepreneurs, researchers, writers, authors, academics and students working on complementary currency systems to improve the lives of the people and the economy around them. 1995 – 2002 Projects:
- Collect & digitize materials.
- Translate materials from English to French, Spanish, German, etc and from these and other languages to English, to start building links between practitioners in various countries.
- Form discussion groups to increase communication & sharing of efforts and best practices.
2002-2012 Projects:
- Design an initial typology of money, used to create the CC Database.
- Design and program the CC Database.
- Design and implement an open CC Library and CC Gallery, which would allow anyone to contribute documents, document links and images as well as image links to other sites.
- Launch a CC Research Group to increase the development of higher-level knowledge about complementary currency systems, encourage academic-level research and provide support to academics and professors who were writing and teaching about them in their courses.
- Creating a Help Desk to assist communities and groups to implement their own CC systems, and to assist those who
- Creating a MicroGrant Fund for CC Systems (2002-2007) which gave small grants to groups working to implement a complementary currency system.
2012-2015 Projects:
- Revising and upgrading the CC Database
- Co-managing the CC Research Group, initiated by the CC Resource Center and now part of the Community Currencies in Action (CCIA) Alliance.
- Assisting all queries for assistance, information and further research.
