Prairie Rising Hour Exchange
The Prairie Rising Hour Exchange organizes service exchanges and mutual aid based on Time Credits, the currency of equality that empowers individuals to enhance their lives, neighborhood, and community.
PRHE Official Launch: Service Sunday, November 30, 2025
Online: Service Sunday Webinar, November 30th, 6-7:30 p.m.
In Person: First Community Potluck, December 5th, 6 p.m. start
How does it work?
The concept is simple. For every hour of service provided to another Hour Exchange member, you earn one Time Credit.
How do I Join?
Just submit a simple application via our TimeNTalents membership site and include two personal references. We will contact you to set up your member orientation.
Community Potluck
The first PRHE Community Potluck will be December 5, 2025 at 6 p.m. The public is welcome to come and learn more!
The Hour Exchange Way
The concept is simple. For every hour of service provided to another Hour Exchange member, you earn one Time Credit. Time Credits are a community currency that members earn by using their time, energy, skills, and talents to help others. Hour Exchanging is about local individuals, organizations, or businesses helping each other in one-to-one exchanges or in group projects. Members help rebuild neighborhood networks and strengthen communities.
You, the Member, can spend your Time Credits on any number of services such as minor home repair, health care, computer assistance, music lessons, voice lessons, transportation, haircuts and English tutoring. You can even save them up for future use. Members of PRHE help each other in ways that family and neighbors have traditionally done. It’s your choice, it’s your time!
Now accepting new members! Grand launch of PRHE
Service Sunday Webinar
Sunday Nov 30, 2025 ⋅ 6pm – 7:30 pmOperating on the belief that every human has something to offer one another, and we all have 24 hours in a day, an hour exchange moves beyond charity or volunteerism, by recognizing people with Time Credits that they can then exhange with another member's service. Whether it is changing a light bulb, teaching a community class on civics, coaching someone on how to start seeds for a garden, babysitting, shoveling snow, etc., we all have gifts and talents that we can use to serve one another. An hour of shoveling snow is the same as an hour of expertise from say a lawyer or a plumber. Hour Exchanges like PRHE create a currency of community, not just as transactions, but as recognition and appreciation in the form of Time Credits.Join the organizers of the Prairie Rising Hour Exchange to learn more about time banks and hour exchanges in general and about your local Brookings, SD, hour exchange group that began creating this new community effort this past Summer 2025. The Prairie Rising Hour Exchange is now accepting new members!
First Community Potluck
6 p.m. on Friday, December 5, 2025
Hosted at 1921 Building at 601 4th Street in the second floor community room.Everyone is invited to our first community potluck!A short program will be provided by Frank James and Tasi Barondeau about the history of time banks and hour exchanges, about Brookings' own Prairie Rising Hour Exchange, and how to join. Find out about services being offered by your neighbors and how you can also contribute!Please bring a covered dish, appetizer or dessert of your choice. We will provide labels for listing ingredients or you may bring your own.Eco-friendly plates, glass and cutlery will be provided. If you want to bring your own wateca set of personal reusable dishes, please do. There is a kitchenette on site.Leftovers will be replated as wateca. Wateca is a Lakota concept of sending plates of food home. Feel free to take these plates home and/or to share with those unable to attend. If you would rather just take your own dish home instead, please let organizers know.