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BerkShares are a local currency designed for use in the Berkshire region of Massachusetts 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 Berkshire Bike & Board, Great Barrington (and now Pittsfield's) independently owned bicycle shop, staffed entirely by cycling enthusiasts. Read the story of Berkshire Bike & Board here

 

Steffen Bike & Board


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If you want to help strengthen our local economy by developing our local currency, donate here!

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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