Wisconsin organizations collaborate to reduce poverty using continuous improvement

Poverty Outcomes Improvement Network Team (POINT) is a first-time, regional driven, initiative focusing on introducing continuous improvement methodology to nonprofits so that they can learn the tools and apply them to their systems and processes in order to accelerate change, improve outcomes and ultimately reduce poverty in Northeast Wisconsin. It was an 18-month initiative, funded […]

Lean Six Sigma for Good book interview with Brion Hurley – e6s Methods Podcast

An interview podcast with Brion Hurley, author of “Lean Six Sigma for Good,” on the e6s Methods podcast with host Aaron Spearin. They discuss the free book and accompanying website (this website), along with applications of Lean techniques with nonprofits and within sustainable businesses. Listen to the entire podcast at: http://leansixsigmaenvironment.org/index.php/ec-032-interview-3-on-e6s-methods-podcast-about-lean-six-sigma-for-good-book-and-website/

Agile and Sustainability City Planning Webinar – Sustainable City Network

Planners from the City of Madison, Wis., and the Sonoma County (Calif.) Transportation Authority discuss how new planning software solutions developed by UrbanFootprint are helping them better support their communities. Cities are struggling with no shortage of challenges: climate change, resilience planning, transportation gridlock, pollution, lack of resources, affordability gaps, health risks, and social instability […]

Toyota streamlines the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra’s Young People’s Concerts

Each season more than 18,000 students attend the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (CSO) Young People’s Concerts; which translates to coordinating and scheduling approximately 50 school buses, street closures, managing weather complications. CSO invited Toyota to help ensure students’ safety; reduce student dismissal time and maximize the overall experience of students and volunteers. Improvements made: First: reduced […]

A Non-Profit Lean Startup: The Story of Adopt-a-Pet

David Meyer founded Adopt-a-Pet.com (formerly 1-800-Save-A-Pet.com) in 2000 as a way of ending pet overpopulation. Today it’s North America’s largest non-profit pet adoption website, with millions of visitors to the site each month and partnerships with more than 17,000 animal shelters, pet rescue groups, humane societies and shelters. Around this time Abbie Moore was introduced to […]

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