Community Currencies
A Tool for Community and Economic Development



This page is intended to be a resource for people interested in building healthier communities, using community currencies as a tool for local economic and community development.  Also known as local currencies, or mutual credits, these systems hold promise for increasing a community's capacity to gain control over it's economic life, while increasing civic engagement and fostering community-level interactions.

This page has been created for Urban and Regional Economic Development, a course in the Department of City and Regional Planning at UNC Chapel Hill.  This page contains information about community currency programs within the United States.  My classmates have also produced web sites about varied economic development topics.  To view their work, please see the PLAN 261 topics page.
 

Please send comments and questions to levenson@email.unc.edu.
Last updated26 April 1999