by Brion Hurley 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 year #7, they decided to take on two nonprofits on the same day in Orlando, Florida on May 19, 2019. Rise Against Hunger – […]
by Brion Hurley For the 7th year in a row, the board of the IISE Sustainable Development Division has organized a volunteer service project with a local nonprofit prior to the start of the Annual Conference, held for the 2nd year in a row in Orlando. Due to popularity of this event, they added a 2nd nonprofit […]
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by Brion Hurley 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 end hunger by 2030. To date, they have packaged 450 million meals in 74 countries. Related to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, RAH’s effort […]
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by Brion Hurley Joe Hnat presents the volunteer program he setup at Collins Aerospace (formerly Rockwell Collins) in Melbourne, Florida. He worked with his facility using lean principles and methods to find space for an employee garden on campus and make it successful. The fruits and vegetables grown in the garden by employee volunteers are […]
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by Brion Hurley For the 6th year in a row, the Sustainable Development Division of IISE coordinated a volunteer event prior to the annual conference. The event took place at the Habitat for Humanity ReStore in Orlando, Florida on May 19th, 2018. The group of systems and industrial engineers and lean consultants made progress on key […]
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Central Florida professional and student chapters of IISE volunteered to decorate the Give Kids the World Village for Christmas. Along with this annual tradition, the volunteers provide industrial engineering support for the village, which treats children with life-threatening illnesses and their families to fantasy vacations. IISE’s Central Florida chapter has spent the last two years […]
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