KAPLAN UNIVERSITY; Kaplan University Students Bring Project Management Lessons to U.S. Food Banks
December 17, 2009 @ Project, Program and Portfolio Management from Project Program and Portfolio Management
Kaplan University, a leading provider of online postsecondary education, announced the release of a special report, "Project Management Toolkit: Building Food Bank Efficiencies and Best Practices." The report is the culmination of an assignment at the University's School of Business Administration and Management in which online graduate students analyzed the operations of several food banks across the U.S. to determine best practices. From these analyses, they developed recommendations to improve competencies for food collection and distribution this holiday season. Overall, the students found that food banks are serving growing numbers of people in their communities with shrinking resources. While the sophistication of food bank operations varied based on their size and resources, students observed that the food banks could improve their efficiencies with the implementation of the project management tools. According to "The Project Management Toolkit," some of the best practices recommended are money, labor and time-saving strategies, including: Utilize worksheet templates like those provided with this report to map costs, scope, project durations and activities to serve more people with shrinking resources; Digitize paper-based systems to avoid duplication of effort and improve institutional memory; and Rethink marketing strategies to tap into new media and ensure that media targets are relevant to potential donors and beneficiaries of donated food.
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