Welcome
Welcome to LOVE: the Lake Oswego Value Exchange, our Mutual Credit & Time Bank. Explore this LOVE:Home website to learn how our community is developing a Mutual Credit system to support our community and sustain our local economy. To learn more about Mutual Credit and Time Banking, please click the FAQ link at the top right.
Happy 100th Birthday, LO!

We honor our past and place in history, celebrate the present and imagine our future.
- Patronize locally-owned business and buy locally-made products.
Keep in mind that buying local keeps more of your money in the community. - Meet your neighbors.
- Volunteer to help elderly neighbors with projects.
- Help create a sense of place in your neighborhood.
- Set up / participate in a “skills bank” on your block or neighborhood / network.
If you have already registered for your LOVE:Bank Account, you may Log-in Now.
Otherwise, if your home, business or organization is located in Lake Oswego, Oregon, you may register now by filling-in the online New Friend Registration Form.
Strengthen our community’s social capital – the quality and quantity of our relationships – by building friendship, good will and trust throughout our community.
Production from local resources, for local needs,
is the most rational way of economic life.
Imagine Craigslist or eBay transactions without the need for scarce dollars. At the LOVE:Bank, your community credit serves as the medium of exchange and your earned reputation determines your ongoing credit worthiness. Credit is given where credit is due, by you unto others and others to you.
