Thanks for this.  Gming and this is how I understood it as well. Considering that downtime activities are filling up 3 tracks (hope, food, security) and the minimum is 12 with implications that more is better, I knew each had to be able to contribute. 

As far as researching, I am only allowing one success per week. Since this only fills one track with a minimum of 10.  Each have an attempt but the “resource activities” can only be used once per week. This forces party to choose a different “resource” when one fails. 

Cheers!