Outreach

The Boston section of ASQ has been busy in 2009 and 2010 reaching out to the community to offer support in the area of quality. This year’s activities included:

• Volunteering at the Boston Food Bank
• Food donations to the Wish Project in Lowell during the holiday season
• Helping the AARP Foundation’s Tax-Aide program

The outreach program’s objective is teaching quality theories, concepts, tools, and practices to Boston community organizations that do not currently have a formal quality program. The committee also works to promote name recognition of the section in the community.

By extending ourselves to other areas in the community through volunteer activities, partnerships are created where ASQ’s quality professionals provide feedback, apply quality concepts, and lead improvement activities that teach the organization quality practices. The outcome is an organization that has the information they need and the training required to repeat the process by themselves.

We have an OutReach activity scheduled at the Boston FoodBank for Saturday February 26, 2011 from 9:30 AM to 12 PM.  Details and signup information will be posted in the coming months.

If you have a need or a suggestion for an outreach activity, please contact us.