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Process Improvement

Help Earth Law Center Identify and implement process improvements to reduce cost, effort, errors, and other inefficiencies, and use defined metrics to measure their success.
Earth Law Center
New York, NY, USA
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Posted July 28th

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Process Improvement

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What we need
  • Written recommendations to improve a specific process, including the controls necessary to maintain the revised process
  • An outline of key metrics for tracking how successful the process improvements are over time, with current-state benchmarks
Additional details

Our organization put together a work plan on Google Docs with our key projects, deliverables, timelines, etc. Now we need a way to share this amongst the group, keep it updated (without getting bogged down in administrative tasks), etc., with a goal of keeping everyone updated--including funders, Board members, staff, etc.

We are as intersted in the technology as we are the process. Asana? Notion? Guru?

What we have in place
  • We currently have a work plan, which should make it easy for you to get started. We also have staff ready to collaborate with you, and the ability to provide any other information you need.
How this will help
This project will save us $7,888 , allowing us to hire contracting lawyers to advance the Rights of Nature

Our team is growing, and that means we have to collaborate better, share our resources, and keep updated about our shared projects. This will help us meet our full potential!

Project plan

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Prep: Distribution of Materials
  • Volunteer Manager provides current state map or process assessment document and other relevant materials to the Professional (see the Process Assessment project if you do not have a current state map)
  • Professional connects with Volunteer Manager for a brainstorming/overview session on perceived inefficiencies and potential improvements
  • Volunteer Manager explains the key goals for the process improvement (e.g., reduced cost, errors, time, etc.)
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Milestone 1: Research & Analysis
  • Professional review the documentation provided and requests clarification as needed
  • Professional performs any additional research and analysis, including interviews with key stakeholders if needed
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Milestone 2: Draft Recommendations
  • Professional provides initial recommendation on process improvements, controls, and key success metrics
  • Organization provides feedback which the Professional incorporates
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Milestone 3: Final Recommendations
  • Professional delivers a final document summarizing recommendations for process improvements and controls to maintain the new process
  • Professional provides an outline of the key metrics the Organization should track in order to measure success over time, as well as the current-state benchmark metrics
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Earth Law Center
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Grant W
Grant W.

Executive Director & Managing Attorney

Our mission

Earth Law Center catalyzes a global movement to rebalance the human-Nature relationship.

We do this by working to make ELC a household name, expanding the body of Earth Law, and providing tools for judges and lawyers to analyze in decisions affecting the natural environment.

What we do

Our continued well being depends on a paradigm shift in law from a human based one to a nature based one so ecological communities can regenerate and thrive.

This includes a wide range of activities from researching and writing part of an amendment being considered by the Oaxaca Parliament for rights of rivers, to Amicus Briefs (12+ submitted since 2018). This includes the first Earth Law textbook in the world, published by Wolters Kluwer as well as Earth Law frameworks for rivers, marine protected areas and communities.

Catchafire volunteers form a core part of ELC's volunteer leaders, and we've completed over 100+ projects. So thank you Catchafire!!!

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Chris did a truly spectacular job of helping our small but growing organization optimize our processes so that we can thrive as a team. He took his project very seriously, and it showed by the results. He spent time to hear from all of our staff members and to learn our systems before making his recommendations. Thanks to him, we are on our way to optimizing how we all work together. Amazing work, Chris!!
Grant W.
Grant W.

Executive Director & Managing Attorney

Process Improvement Project

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