Member Survey!
In the Summer of 2006, the Portland Time Bank along with long time member Ed Collom, a professor at USM, conducted a comprehensive membership survey on individual members of the Portland Time Bank. Due to the recent merge, Portland West members will be surveyed later about their participation with the Time Bank.
The survey was divided into six sections: motivations, engagement, outcomes, satisfaction, community experience, and demographics. As Ed Collom states; “As far as I know, it is the most comprehensive survey ever fielded to local currency participants. Of the 505 members surveyed, 232 members completed the survey for a respectable response rate of 45.9%, exceeding most of the research conducted on community currencies.”
