In this podcast, I interviewed Courtney Hudson, Distribution Warehouse manager with Rise Against Hunger. They were awarded the inaugural “Excellence in Sustainable Development” Award in 2019.

She shares the improvements they made to their warehouse operations to increase the number of packaged meals they send to countries in need. They are working to achieve SDG Goal #2: Zero Hunger by 2030.

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Links

* Rise Against Hunger* IISE Excellence in Sustainable Development Award* UN Sustainable Development Goals* Courtney Hudson LinkedIn Profile

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Transcript

Brion (B):  I’m here

with Courtney Hudson, she works at Rise Against Hunger, and Rise Against Hunger

was the first award winner for our Excellence in Sustainable Development. I

wanted to have her go through and talk through the project that they submitted

and some of the work they’ve been doing to apply Lean and Six Sigma concepts to

their nonprofit work. And so, Courtney, do you want to introduce yourself and

give your most recent job title? I know you’ve had a lot of activity happening

at the organization, and then just how you got into Rise Against Hunger, and

then share a little bit of some of the improvement work you guys have done.

Courtney (C):  Yeah, absolutely. Thanks so much, Brion. My

name is Courtney Hudson. I am these Centralized Distribution Warehouse Network

Manager. And so I got started with Rise Against Hunger in 2016, and we were

running a traditional model, which I’ll get further into as the presentation

goes on, but I opened up our first ever centralized dis...