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  After starting and running my own small businesses for the last 25 years, one day I found myself out of work. A perfect storm of unfortunate events had culminated in a tsunami of problems. It started in late August 2005 when Katrina washed ashore on my boyhood home of New Orleans. My brother not only lost his home but his business as well and found himself and his family having to move to Texas, to start over, where they currently reside.

My mothers’ home was thankfully spared. However, because of the terrible conditions in the city, she was forced to relocate and live with us for almost 8 months. (Most of her lifelong friends and much or our extended family were forced to permanently leave the city, never to return.)

Then began the encroaching but continual rise of the price of oil. My packaging and light manufacturing business was particularly susceptible to commodity price increases making all of the products that we distributed much more costly. The resultant increase of the price of gasoline eventually made it impossible for us to affordably purchase and/or ship our products nationally and compete with local suppliers around the country.

We fought to hold on but, after almost 18 months of instituting "work arounds" and when oil reached $145.00/ barrel, we lost the battle and had to close the doors for good.

Thankfully, my oldest son who had committed himself to the business for 8 years, found employment and I did what was necessary to close the operation down.

I never previously considered not being able to support my family …..then along came the recession.

I am fifty nine years old, in excellent health with a wealth of accumulated experience however, as I probed the business environment, I quickly found out that I was either over qualified for a management position or not sufficiently technically qualified for a specialty position.

So, as I continued my search, I decided that I would spend some time seeing if there was something that I could do that might help others. One day I called upon a Local Food Pantry and subsequently had what has become a life changing discussion with the Director of Volunteers. After one hour, it became clear to me that they were drowning in requests for food without any way in which to procure the amount of food that they now required because of the economic downturn.

I volunteered to become the Emergency Food Volunteer Director and immediately began to put together programs with local businesses and individuals in order to perhaps make a dent in their required needs. Besides contacting most of their current donor list, I was able to create a donation program with a Regional Retail Ice Cream Chain, a food drive with a Regional Food Store Chain, represent the organization at a formal musical performance, have 8,000 items delivered from a local food manufacturer, talk to store managers and school children, be interviewed on local radio etc.….all in order to attempt to increase the awareness of and donations for their food needs.

One day, while walking through the food pantry, it struck me just how severe was the despair that I saw in the eyes of the people who needed help. It was overwhelming and I found that I could not shake this feeling.

That evening, I went to the gym and after talking to several of the people that I had come to know over the years, seemingly pierced a bubble of unspoken concern; after I relayed my concerns, many people began to relate to me a seamingly unending series of statements of worry, anxiety, loss of self worth, self confidence and inadequacy stemming from the effects of the recession upon their own lives. Everyone seemed to have a similar set of feelings to share.

I determined that I was going to try and do SOMETHING to ameliorate this situation. At that moment, I did not know what, but I was going to think of a way to attempt to do what I could in order to help both financially and emotionally.

The next day a Spark of an idea began to ignite some thoughts which eventually resulted in EndlessActs.com.

Our goal is to help individuals, groups, associations, organizations and corporations honor occasions, events or designated people and/or raise money for worthy causes of their choosing by encouraging as many people as possible to ignite a series of endless positive acts on behalf of the chosen occasion or cause; and simultaneously enable everyone to be able to follow and "share in" the cumulative positive ripple effects of the wonderful, uplifting, hope inducing good acts that they themselves would set into motion!

One good act building upon another.

Now, either individually or through your group, you can assist and/or honor worthy causes, events or occasions, of your choosing, while simultaneously "sharing in" an exponentially increasing number of good acts that you actually helped set into motion and seamlessly raise money for a cause of your choice!

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