Welcome!  This group works to have no hunger in Oak Park in 7 years.  Please donate Hours to No Hunger Oak Pak.  Spend the Hours doing what you love.  The Hours you credit to us in our TimeBank account will enable us to build a thriving, nourished community. The first step in our plan for eliminating hunger is to form a Leadership Council of 15 people.  Their task wil be to detail the following plans, inspire people about their potential, and guide their implementation.Goals: double the number of donors and increase their donations by 50%.  Thus:Year 1: enlist 60 people to donate 8 Hours.  This means 480 Hours would be credited to No Hunger Oak Park.Year 2: 120 people donate 12 Hours.  1,440 Hours credited to No Hunger OP.  The patterns continues.Year 7: 3,840 people donate 91 Hours.  350,000 Hours (equivalent of 175 full-time staff). This means that if all goes as hoped, in Year 7 we will have eliminated hunger in Oak Park.  The 350k Hours donated (if valued at $15/hour) is equivalent to $5.25 million devoted to eliminating hunger in Oak Park, or $24/week for each of the 4,200 hungry Oak Parkers*.In Year 7 the time donations will mean a value of $25/week per hungry Oak Parker will be spent to eliminate hunger.  This adds $5.25 million more in economic exchanges to the Oak Park economy, which will spillover to other local businesses and result in $7.9 million in Oak Park economic activity.  And this will likely mean work available for exchange Hours for Oak Parkers who had been chronically hungry.___________ * 8% of Oak Park residents lived in poverty in 2012.  8% x 52,000 residents = 4,200 residents lived in poverty and were chronically hungry.For further info, contact Barry, 708-445-0000, barrykoren@ourvillagelife.com