BerkShares: Local Currency for the Berkshire Region


	BerkShares are a local currency designed for use in the Berkshire region of Massachusetts and issued by BerkShares, Inc., a non-profit organization working in collaboration with participating local banks, businesses, and non-profit organizations. The BerkShares Business of the Month is The Snap Shop, Railroad Street's independently owned camera shop, owned and run by cousins Steve and Tony Carlotta. Read the full story here. View BerkShares photo gallery - or - Watch television coverage of BerkShares If you want to help strengthen our local economy by developing our local currency, donate here! If you want to get involved, look at this internship opportunity. • Become a member of the organization by sending us your name and your dues. • Support the local economy by donating to BerkShares. • Own a business in the Berkshires? Sign up to accept BerkShares! • Visit our Business Tools section for accounting strategies and more. • Find out more about BerkShares Order a BerkShares Educational Packet • Why Local Currencies? Read Schumacher Center for a New Economics ' research on history, theory, and practice. Learn how local currencies fit into a complex of tools for building a new economy. A good community insures itself by trust, by good faith and good will, by mutual help. A good community, in other words, is a good local economy. Wendell Berry, from "Work of Local Culture" Photography of BerkShares By Jason Houston (printing BerkShares) By Lauren Fuller (click on Collections, then BerkShares)
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BerkShares, Inc. \| P.O. Box 125 \| Great Barrington, MA 01230 \| info@berkshares.org