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id="" class="x-text cs-ta-justify" style="" ><div style="font-size: 125%;" class="man">The <strong>Kola Nut Collaborative (KNC)</strong> is a mutual support network of people engaged in <strong>reciprocal exchange</strong> of services, skills, and goods through a timebank where the currency is an hour of time for everyone. Through membership in the Kola Nut Collaborative people: create and strengthen community bonds, create <strong>economic freedom</strong> by providing an alternative means to get needs and desires met, and encourage <strong>creativity in redefining self-sufficiency</strong>, interdependence and valuation of time. The Kola Nut Collaborative introduces a paradigm where members reflect on the available resources in their lives moving from a perception of scarcity and lack to <strong>abundance and wholeness</strong>.</div> </div></div></div><div id="" class="x-container max width" style="margin: 0px auto;padding: 40px 0px 0px;" ><div class="x-column x-sm x-1-2" style="padding: 0px;" ><div id="" class="x-text" style="" ><div class="man" style="font-size: 125%; text-align: justify;">We are strategically focused on partnering with organizations which have a broad base of constituents whom might benefit from deploying timebanking as a method for capturing and compensating work that presently lives in the form of reciprocal goodwill transactions and creating an infrastructure where the time given over to these worthwhile causes may be traded with other members within the timebank for services other members have offered. 聽By shifting from altruistic volunteerism to stakeholding, we are acknowledging our time as an investment and building stronger relationships between individuals, organizations and the communities that are served in the process.</div> </div></div><div class="x-column x-sm x-1-2" style="padding: 0px;" ><img decoding="async" class="x-img x-img-none" src="https://kolanutcollab.theibisofficial.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Time-Salon-1.png" ></div></div></div><div class="x-section e12-e29 mc-0"><div class="x-row x-container max width e12-e30 mc-1 mc-2"><div class="x-row-inner"><div class="x-col e12-e31 mc-3"><iframe loading="lazy" width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLIJKUYzcfZxvtWTlb3R2JcOYJ2Xcd68Zl" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; 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