In this episode, I provide more details for anyone interested in setting up a local volunteer group to provide process improvement consulting to nonprofits in your area.

You can find a list of existing volunteer groups on LeanSixSigmaforGood.com

I cover the following recommended steps:

* Find an organizer* Find a small organizing group* Hold kickoff meeting* Setup LinkedIn Group* Promote Group* Setup first group event* Partnering with college students

You can check out the video below with the slides, or go to https://youtu.be/jbi353GjT40

Links

* List of volunteer groups by city* Read full show notes | Subscribe or rate this podcast

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Transcript

I wanted to get a little bit more effort around setting up these volunteer groups around the country, and actually around the globe, so I thought I’d put a little video together to explain my thought process. A little bit of explanation on the LeanSixSigmaForGood.com website, but I wanted to go into a little bit more depth here.

My name is Brion Hurley. I run a consulting firm called Business Performance Improvement. I’m based in Portland, Oregon as of right now, but I’m soon locating to St. Louis, Missouri. This is also part of the reason I’m putting this together is try to...