After Hurricane Katrina struck the U.S. Gulf Coast in 2005, Washington, D.C., teacher Liz McCartney and lawyer Zack Rosenberg wanted to help. Their efforts took them to New
A student group at the University of Houston uses Lean concepts to improve the setup process that a services organization uses for weekly outreach volunteer events.
Halte Werk is a Dutch company that awards social benefits to the unemployed. Thanks to lean thinking, they were able to radically transform the service they offer them.
The Sustainable Development division of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) holds an annual service volunteer project with a nonprofit prior to each annual conference. For
Getting Home by Lynn McCartney and Zack Rosenburg is a wonderful book that tells the story of a very special lean journey. After Hurricane Katrina had left thousands
Kern County, located in the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley of California, was facing serious budget challenges. This triggered Kern County’s General Services to reevaluate the
Rise Against Hunger is an international hunger relief nonprofit organization founded in 1998 that distributes food and life-changing aid to the world’s most vulnerable, mobilizing the necessary resources to
This is a podcast conversation between Maryana Iskander, CEO at Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator, and Ann Mei Chang, Executive Director of Lean Impact at Lean Startup Co., focused
The City of Coral Gables (FL) IT department worked together on response times and efficiencies with a Lean Six Sigma improvement project. The process empowered their team to
For the past 3 years, Lean and Six Sigma practitioners in Portland (Oregon) have been volunteering with local nonprofits to teach and mentor them on process improvement. The
