Jerome Scriptunas is Founder-CEO of YTBGlobal.org, Youth TimeBanking (YTB), a virtual-all-volunteer, 501(c)(3) nonprofit of youth-adult partnerships of reciprocity and community connections, EIN 84-3685123. YTB is active in the US, Uganda, Tanzania, and Cameroon. We collaborate with Green Team Academy and NGOs in Africa and lead TechSoup Connect for TimeBanking Organizations, a forum for ideas on how technology helps community organizations to fulfill their mission. YTB's model is Community CALM - Care/ Apps/ Learn/ Make for community. Jerome has graduate degrees in Engineering and MSW Global Community Practice, https://www.linkedin.com/in/ytbglobal
YTB provides community-building opportunities to youth and uses time, service, resources, and opportunity as currency in exchange. YTB is Community C.A.L.M. - Care, Apps, Learn, Make for Community. Care -- serving others, the environment, animals. Apps -- helping others via technology. Learn -- literacy & community knowledge. Make -- making things for our community. YTB's vision is that youth have opportunities for peer-to-peer, near-peer, youth-adult, and intergenerational connections, and partnerships to build personal and community strength and solidarity. YTB recognizes that Youth ARE: Assets, Resources, Energy.
A functioning society (Core Economy)
is necessary to have a functioning (money) economy
Youth TimeBanking, 501(c)(3) Nonprofit, EIN 84-3685123
Youth-adult partnership of giving & receiving
for community development
YTB Community CALM
Projects-Partners-Platforms
Care * Apps * Learn * Make
Youth ARE: Assets * Resources * Energy
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Youth TimeBanking (YTB) is youth-adult partnerships of giving & receiving of our time that build strengths & social connections and that promote positive youth & community development. YTB is thriving in Kampala and Mukono, Uganda and developing in Simiyu, Tanzania, with collaboration from YTB members in the US and Cameroon. In one year, YTB Global has launched Global Letter Writing Exchange, YTB in rural schools, invested donations in an ISSB (Interlocking Stabilised Soil Block) machine to rebuild a school destroyed by storms, presented at DevRes2022.org, completed an International Climate Action Challenge, and demonstrated how Youth ARE (Assets-Resources-Energy) with their energy applied to waste management in rural schools to turn organic waste into compost for community gardens and solid waste into recycling and community art.