Crsp

Filing Period

Jan 1, 2012 to Dec 31, 2012

Signed

Nov 13, 2013

Return Version

2012v2.0

Gross Receipts

$1,475,581

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Echo Park Time Bank, Arroyo S.E.C.O. Time Bank, California Federation of Time Banks demonstrates, trains, and provides technical assistance to emerging and established time banks throughout California, a method for lower income persons and organizations to exchange services for time credits.Time Banking project grew to over 1,000 members in 13 neighborhood groups doing a dozen cooperative and ecological projects. Time Bank is designed to inspire trust, cooperation and reciprocity among neighbors in lower income neighborhoods. Time Banking empowers low income communities by facilitating cooperative and environmentally sensitive trading of skills in local neighborhoods, e.g., gardening, childcare, home repair, art and music lessons, etc. Everyones time is equal in time banking.

Activity 3

Faires, expos, tours, workshops, conferences, website and media exposure for education and training and to expand public awareness about the processes of developing permanently affordable cooperative and environmentally sensitive urban housing and living patterns for lower income households and neighborhood groups.CRSP AND ITS THREE ADJACENT PROPERTIES, KNOWN AS THE LOS ANGELES ECO-VILLAGE DEMONSTRATION PROJECT, HAS A WEB SITE TO EXPAND ITS FUNCTION AS A COOPERATIVE ECOLOGICAL RESOURCE CLEARINGHOUSE. CRSP SENDS OUT A MONTHLY NOTICE TO 3,000 PEOPLE VIA ELECTRONIC MAIL INFORMING THEM OF UPCOMING EVENTS AND OTHER NEWS OF THE ORGANIZATION. ADDITIONALLY, CRSP RECEIVES APPROXIMATELY 20 INQUIRES WEEKLY FROM THE GENERAL PUBLIC REQUESTING INFORMATION.CRSP also maintains a specialized lending library accessible to the public on all aspects of urban cooperative ecological community developments, as well as sponsoring public talks and workshops with prominent experts in the diverse aspects of urban sustainability.

Filer

EIN

95-3900435