|
SBP Founders' Book "Getting Home" Released in Audio, Print and E-versions
Thursday, December 19, 2019
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 18, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Getting Home is the inspiring story of a defense lawyer and a school teacher who left their careers to rebuild homes for desperate survivors of Hurricane Katrina but wound up reconstructing the entire process for rebuilding after disasters. Authors Liz McCartney and Zack Rosenburg describe how SBP, the New Orleans's-based disaster resilience and recovery nonprofit they founded in 2006, partnered with Toyota to apply the lean principles of the Toyota Production System to rebuild homes and lives following natural disasters throughout the U.S, Puerto Rico and the Bahamas.
Through SBP's partnership with Toyota, Zack and Liz led their team to reduce the average time to rebuild a house from 121 to 61 days; a 50% time reduction. The model used to achieve these results has become SBP's standard construction model, applied to all of the organization's work nationwide. To date, SBP has rebuilt more than 1950 homes and has grown to include more than 17,000 volunteers annually, 240 AmeriCorps members and 90 staff.
About Getting Home:
-- First book about how lean tools were applied to speed up disaster
recovery.
-- A motivational story of American's readiness to help strangers.
-- The inspiring story of a defense lawyer and a teacher who left their
careers to rebuild homes for desperate survivors but wound up
reconstructing the entire process for rebuilding after disasters.
-- Offers a proven rebuilding model based on SBP's experiences in how to
make recovering from disasters faster, predictable, and with much less
emotional and financial distress for victims.
-- A practical story of how citizens and governments can increase
preparedness for disasters.
Title: Getting Home https://www.lean.org/Bookstore/ProductDetails.cfm?SelectedProductId=423
Authors: Liz McCartney and Zack Rosenburg - SBP co-founders
Publisher: Lean Enterprise Institute, Inc.
ISBN-13: 978-1-934109-56-4
ISBN-10: 978-1934109564
Number of Pages: 168
About SBP:
Since its founding in 2006 in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana following the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina, SBP has rebuilt homes for more than 1,950 families in 14 communities across the United States, Puerto Rico and the Bahamas.
SBP meets its mission to shrink time between disaster and recovery through five interventions by: Rebuilding efficiently; Sharing our model with other organizations; Preparing home and business owners through resilience training; Advising municipal and state officials; and Advocating for policy changes and improvements to the disaster recovery industry. To achieve our mission, SBP takes a holistic approach to disasters--increasing resilience before and streamlining recovery after.
To learn more, visit SBPUSA.org and like/follow on Facebook & Twitter @SBPUSA
View original content:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sbp-founders-book-getting-home-released-in-audio-print-and-e-versions-300976902.html
SOURCE SBP
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
PayDo Launches Unified Payment Infrastructure Suite for Digital Businesses | Jan 22, 2026
|
|
The New Identity Theft Crisis: AI Scams, Child Victims, and Credit Damage Are All Spiking | Jan 22, 2026
|
|
AllSci Launches Hypothesis Publishing: A Seamless Way to Share, Connect, and Advance Scientific Ideas | Jan 22, 2026
|
|
Darwin CX Caps a Banner Year with AI Launch, Sold-Out Events, and Industry Book Launch | Jan 22, 2026
|
|
Canadian Fintech Tuhk Inc., Founded by Ethoca and NuData Security Veterans, Raises US$6 Million Seed Round Led by FINTOP, with Lloyds Banking Group and Capital One Ventures | Jan 22, 2026
|
|
Fintech Startup BON Credit Secures $3.5 Million In Funding | Jan 22, 2026
|
|
IoTeX Publishes MiCA-Compliant Whitepaper for IOTX, Enabling EU-Wide Alignment Under the New Regulatory Framework | Jan 22, 2026
|
|
Nudge Security Unveils Industry's Most Comprehensive AI Security Governance Platform | Jan 22, 2026
|
|
Gametime Launches "12 Days of Gametime" Holiday Giveaway in Partnership with Barstool Sports | Jan 22, 2026
|
|
TSX Venture Exchange Market Data Now Available Across Over 40 Blockchains via Chainlink | Jan 22, 2026
|
|
|
|
