CEA Showcase: Reducing Homelessness with Trinity Rescue Mission

One of our most fantastic stories is about our partnership with Trinity Rescue Mission (TRM), and increasing participation in their Lifeline program. After careful study of the program organization and interviews with participants, the project team suggested policy and procedural changes. With TRM’s implementation of these improvements, participation in the Lifeline program increased to 75 […]

Toyota helps Facing Hunger food bank operate more efficiently

Toyota Motor Manufacturing West Virginia (TMMWV) shared their manufacturing know-how and expertise with the Facing Hunger Food Bank in Huntington, West Virginia. The multi-month project was a collaborative effort and now has the food bank poised to operate more efficiently.  TMMWV team members helped the food bank’s backpack program increase its efficiency by 600 percent. […]

Ending Hunger in Boston with Lean

Just like their for­-profit peers, nonprofit organizations, including food banks, deal with a lack of timely deliveries and other logistical complications. Since these problems are just like similar issues that plague warehousing and manufacturing, lean and the Toyota Production System (TPS) are ideal strategies to remove these obstacles. Several years ago, The Greater Boston Food […]

University of North Florida, Community Excellence Alliance help nonprofits learn to do more with less

Like many community-service organizations, Trinity Rescue Mission was hurting. It was 2011. The economy had not recovered from the recession. Providing food, shelter and hope for homeless people in Jacksonville was harder than ever. “We needed help,” says Matt Heavener, Trinity’s development director. To Trinity’s rescue came a brainy collaboration of servant leaders and college […]

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