Over 8,000 Hours Served

By Cara DeGette

Editor

Over the course of 2014, volunteers donated an estimated 8,000 hours to the Greater Park Hill Community neighborhood organization. GPHC Executive Director Rebecca Born provided a breakdown of those hours – along with final tallies in several areas – during a report during the annual meeting in October.

In addition, this year’s June Park Hill Garden Walk cleared $10,000 in proceeds to benefit the community. Greater Park Hill’s other big fundraiser, the September Home Tour & Street Fair, pulled in an estimated $30,000.

Here is a short and succinct overview of the state of our community Registered Neighborhood Organization in 2014 (all data collected and crunched by Born):

GPHC, Inc. Membership

• 404 Memberships, including families and businesses

This represents a number that has been holding steady for the last few years

The Food Pantry

• Served 371 Households in 2014

• That represents 1,110 Park Hill residents

• An average of 31 households a month get a little help from the food pantry

• Since July, 25 new families have signed up to receive food and goods from the pantry

• The Food Pantry provided 9,900 meals this year

• Thanksgiving Baskets are also delivered to Park Hill families. Last year 57 households received baskets; that number was expected to double in 2014.

Weekly Donations for the Food Pantry

• Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church

• Cake Crumbs bakery

• Cur d’ Ars

• Park Hill First Congregational Church

• Park Hill Library

• Park Hill United Methodist Church

• Produce for Pantries

The Greater Park Hill Newspaper

• Distributed to more than 14,000 Park Hill households

• Increasing in size

GPHC, Inc. Office and Property

• New flooding controls: Sandbags in place, re-building window is scheduled

• New high efficiency LED security lights have been installed

• Xcel reports energy usage is down this year

• Composting and recycling efforts have reduced trash output to approximately two kitchen bags a month

Volunteerism Total: 8,000 hours

In office

• 1104 volunteer hours

• (720 of which is two individuals)

GPHN Newspaper

• 361 Blockworkers: 2,166 hours

• 5-7 Bundlers: 624 hours

GPHC Board Members

• Board Meetings: 500 hours

• Executive Meetings: 500 hours

• Other Community Meetings: 200 hours

• Articles, letters, etc: 200 hours

Garden Walk

• Chairs: 300 hours

• Committee: 350 hours

• Day of Even Volunteers: 450 hours

4th of July Parade

• Chair: 200 hours

• Day of Event Volunteers: 200 hours

Park Hill Home Tour & Street Fair

• Home Tour Chair: 400 hours

• Street Fair Chair: 360 hours

• Committee: 280 hours

• Day of Event Volunteers: 410 hours